Stephanie Choporis

🚨 #JOURNALISTS! @CJA_Updates is turning 85 this year! Celebrate with us by submitting your best work for our Dorothy Storck Award and Sarah Brown Boyden Awards! Peep the new categories. 👇 Early-bird deadline is THIS FRIDAY! Don't miss out! Apply: awards@chicagojournalists.net

The new @CJA_Updates Board has gotten to work, & we’re offering our first event! Join us May 18 for a FREE Google Tools training covering fact-checking & tools for election coverage. We’re thrilled to have @itsmikereilley lead our session again! RSVP: chicagocja@gmail.com 👇

Did you hear the news today? @stoomey of @BlockClubCHI will be the keynote speaker at our 84th Anniversary Awards Ceremony! Don't miss this fantastic lineup! It's going to be one amazing night! #Journalists: $75 Non-Journalists: $100 Tickets: chicagojournalists.net/donations

🚨 MORE BIG NEWS, #CHICAGO #JOURNALISTS! 🚨 Congratulations to our 2023 #DorothyStorckAward finalists! 🔹@mdoukmas, @injusticewatch 🔹@deldeib, @propublica 🔹@TrulySylvia, @cantvchicago Who will take home the $1,000 prize? Find out Nov. 10! Get tix: chicagojournalists.net/donations

Surprise No. 1 for our 84th Anniversary Awards Ceremony: Our Lifetime Achievement recipient, Jim Rose, will be introduced by 2022 recipient, @TracyBaimWCMG! AND our 2022 Emerging Journalist of the Year, @_KellyGarcia__ will lead Q&A w/ him! Get tix today! chicagojournalists.net/donations

🚨 BIG NEWS, #JOURNALISTS! 🚨 Our 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Jim Rose, formerly of @ABC7Chicago! @_ToniaHill is Chicago Breakout Journalist of the Year & @BpopeTV is emcee! Celebrate them NOV. 10 at our 84th Anniversary Awards Ceremony! Tix: chicagojournalists.net/donations/

I’m definitely looking forward to listening & learning from this crowd next Tuesday! Grab a refreshment & join us! We hope to see you there! 👇📚👇

I was honored to be interviewed for this story about my friend, mentor & CJA predecessor, @maudlynei. Our relationship comes in about 2/3 of the way into the story, but I encourage you to read the whole piece. Her journey has inspired me & many others. gatewayjr.org/after-storied-…

A CJA congrats to our former VP @Jillian_Melero who will be stepping into the role of co-president for the @headlineclub! She'll be serving with our Freelance MasterJourno Class panelist, @hall_marye. We look forward to working with you & seeing the great things you'll do! 👏👏

Thanks to 2022 #DorothyStorckAward winner @_ismaperez for the nice mention of our 83rd Anniversary Awards Ceremony in this column on Chicago's history of LGBTQ+ journalism! Lifetime Achievement Award recipient @TracyBaimWCMG is also featured! Check it out! chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/202…

It was wonderful to celebrate our 2023 Freelance MasterJourno Class certificate cohort! I met several great individuals who are eager to break into journalism, & I wish them the best in their journeys! Thanks to everyone who attended & made this event possible! 👏🏻👏🏻

Our Freelance MasterJourno Class may be over. But now, we're celebrating the 2023 class of certificate recipients! 🤩 If you're a CJA member or tuned in for all of our sessions, come out to meet us & some of our fantastic speakers this Thursday! @SouthSideWeekly @HydeParkHerald

And THANK YOU to our fabulous co-collaborators, @SouthSideWeekly & the @HydeParkHerald, for sharing their talented journalists with us!

We have no words, except WOW...again! Last night was a FANTASTIC ending to our 2023 Freelance MasterJourno Class! 🤩 Thanks to @jimdaleywrites @loujacobson @SkyPattersonFC for great fact checking tips & resources! Thanks to ALL of our series panelists & ALL who tuned in! 👏👏

#JOURNALISTS! The FINAL session of our Freelance MasterJourno Class is TONIGHT! ✨ AND we have a surprise guest! ✨ @loujacobson of @PolitiFact will join @jimdaleywrites & @SkyPattersonFC to talk all about fact checking & how to avoid misinformation! Tune in @ 7 PM CST! 👇

#JOURNALISTS! The FINAL session of our Freelance MasterJourno Class w/ @SouthSideWeekly & @HydeParkHerald is Wednesday @ 7 PM CST! Want to learn fact checking tips & resources from @jimdaleywrites & @SkyPattersonFC? RSVP today! Non-CJA members: $15 RSVP: chicagocja@gmail.com

Wow again! Session No. 2 of our Freelance MasterJourno Class was just as amazing as the first! 🤩 Thanks so much to panelists @WriterAlejandra @adam_przybyl & @daniesanders20 for fantastic story tips! Don't miss our FINAL session next week w/ @jimdaleywrites & @SkyPattersonFC!

Marla taught my 1st journalism class & more @DePaulJOUR. My 1st clip was one I wrote for her. I’ve seen the DePaulia do fantastic work & win awards under her leadership. There’s no question of her impact on students’ careers. Congrats on a job well done & deserved retirement!

#JOURNALISTS, it's TONIGHT! Along w/ @SouthSideWeekly & @HydeParkHerald, we're back for session No. 2 of our Freelance MasterJourno Class: Structuring a Great Story. We have another fantastic group of panelists: @WriterAlejandra @adam_przybyl @daniesanders20! Tune in @ 7 PM CST!

#JOURNALISTS! Our Freelance MasterJourno Class continues Wednesday at 7 PM CST! Have you RSVP'd? This week's session will cover tips for building great stories with @WriterAlejandra @adam_przybyl @daniesanders20! Don't miss it! Non-CJA members: $15 RSVP: chicagocja@gmail.com