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Celebrate journalism excellence! 🎉 🎖️Nominate a journalist for Fellow of the Society, SPJ’s highest professional honor recognizing extraordinary contributions to the profession. 🔗Submit nominations by April 9: bit.ly/4utWdNK

☀️It’s the first day of #SunshineWeek!☀️ SPJ is a proud sponsor of this nationwide celebration of freedom of information and government transparency. 💪Access to records helps journalists keep you informed and protect your right to know. 🔗Get involved: sunshineweek.org

The three Utah #magazines have a long history of reporting on fashion, food, culture, weddings and design in the Beehive State. @palak_jayswal

🚨 Come work with me! The @freep is searching for a News & Audience Director to help lead coverage for Michigan's largest newsroom in America's best news town. Apply here: bit.ly/4cqKE3t

Journalists: Do you have questions about covering the courts or the work of judges? On March 11, SPJ Colorado Pro presents “Covering the Courts,” a free webinar featuring legal affairs journalists and judges sharing tips. Details here. @spj_tweets spjcolorado.org/2026/02/11/eve…

🚨Good news, professional journalists!🚨 ⏰If you didn’t get the chance to submit your work, now’s the time — the deadline for the 2025 Sigma Delta Chi Awards has been extended to 11:59 p.m. EST Feb. 25. 🔗Learn more and submit entries now: bit.ly/3O1x4JI

🌑📢Calling for Black Hole Award nominations!📢🌑 Know a government agency or official blocking the public’s right to know? Nominate them for SPJ’s Black Hole Award, highlighting the most egregious violations of open government laws. 🔗Submit by Monday: bit.ly/4aYqVa5

Georgia Fort is an independent journalist based in Minnesota. #GeorgiaFort #reporter #journalism #Minneapolis #immigration

ICYMI The Utah Headliners chapter is working to keep court proceedings open.

#FreedomOfInformation #FreePress #CharlieKirk @UtahSPJ #Utah

This year marks 100 years of #BlackHistoryMonth. Support #Blackjournalism. Subscribe. Share the work. Invest in Black-owned media. #Blackhistory is #Americanhistory. Black journalism keeps it alive.

Independent journalist Georgia Fort was, like Don Lemon, arrested for doing her job: documenting a protest of public concern. When members of the press are taken into custody simply for filming and reporting, it sends a chilling message to every journalist in America. The First Amendment does NOT belong to the powerful; it exists to protect truth, accountability, and the public’s right to know. We must speak out when press freedom is under attack!

HB227, sponsored by Rep. Carol Spackman Moss, D-Holladay, was tabled Tuesday by the House Education Committee in a 9-3 vote. #freepress #Utah

Steadham was the chief meteorologist at KUTV from 2005 to 2009 before joining the weather team at KTVX in Salt Lake City in the same role. @KUTV2News @CBS2Boise #RolandSteadham

Sources: WaPo is laying off up to 300 employees, including over 100 staffers in the sports, metro, and foreign teams; the sports desk may be shuttered entirely (Natalie Korach/Status) dlvr.it/TQZpfB

@JeffBezos once said that cutting as a survival strategy leads to irrelevance and extinction. Washington Post staff agree. Our company has already shrunk by hundreds & further layoffs will devastate the institution that the world needs more than ever. No more cuts. #SaveThePost

NEW: The Washington Post cuts—which could affect up to 300 employees—are culmination of 2-year effort to transform paper. Will Lewis wants to focus on a few core areas—natsec, politics, etc—while all but abandoning topics without adequate demand… including sports. W/ @Ourand_Puck: puck.news/why-the-washin…

“A young, 20-something guy will never have sight again in one of his eyes because of the actions of LAPD. His crime? Taking a photograph?” @adrojo tells @SpecNews1SoCal’s @katecagle. “The reality is that these munitions cause permanent, life-altering injuries.”

SPJ’s Top of the Rockies Excellence in Journalism contest is accepting entries until 10 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. The contest is for professional reporters and news organizations in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Visit spjcolorado.org/2025/12/08/top… for rules and categories.

SPJ is alarmed by escalating actions by @DeptofWar that threaten press freedom: reported plans to seize editorial control of @starsandstripes & the Pentagon’s new credentialing policy that has effectively emptied the Pentagon press corps. 🔗Read more: bit.ly/3Nwh564