SPJ National names Cincinnati Small Chapter of the Year
By Tom McKee, President The Greater Cincinnati Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has been named the national Small Chapter of the Year.
The award was presented Sunday, September 18 at the SPJ National Convention in New Orleans. It’s the second time in three years that the chapter has earned the honor.
Accepting on behalf of the chapter were President Tom McKee, Vice-President Jenny Wohlfarth, Treasurer Hagit Limor and Secretary Ginny McCabe.
National SPJ President Paul Fletcher cited the chapter’s planning and production of a joint Region 4/Region 5 conference in Cincinnati in April as one of the reasons for the award.
The conference featured a dozen programs on current topics of interest to 200 professional and student journalists who attended at the Kingsgate Conference Center.
WHAT: UC Lunch with the Pros - Political reporters from local/regional media outlets share their
experiences covering politics ... especially during this
particularly memorable presidential campaign!
WHEN: 11 a.m. to 12: 15 p.m., Thursday, October 27
WHERE: University of Cincinnati main campus
CONTACT: Students, contact SPJ Cincinnati Vice President Jenny Wolhfarth, Jenny.Wohlfarth@uc.edu, for questions.
Award-winning journalists from the Cincinnati Enquirer, Amber Hunt and Amanda Rossmann, visited the University of Cincinnati’s main campus on Sept. 28 to talk to journalism students about a serial podcast they created from their in-depth investigation into an unsolved 37-year-old murder case.
The event was organized by the UC student chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and sponsored by the Greater Cincinnati Pro Chapter of the SPJ.
Hunt and Rossmann said that the story about the unsolved murder of Elizabeth Andes, which was originally planned as a Sunday piece in the Enquirer, quickly evolved into a much bigger pursuit than they thought, leading to the year-long development of “Accused,” a multi-episode podcast that aired in September.