East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists
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We’re proud to be hosting the Region 12 Spring Conference April 9 and 10! For more information, please click HERE! HOTEL ROOM DISCOUNT GOOD THROUGH MARCH 20 AND EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DISCOUNT ENDS MARCH 30! Register now! HERE.
Please join us at our upcoming events:
March 16, 2010 – Brown Bag with NPR’s Carl Kasell noon, University Center Shiloh Room, sponsored by WUOT as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations. Kasell, legendary NPR newscaster and star of “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” will share his experiences in public broadcasting and answer questions. For more info please click here.
March 16, 2010 - “Covering climate change in a changing media climate” with NPR Science Correspondent Richard Harris 8 p.m., Shiloh Room, University Center (see below for directions and parking) FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Award-winning journalist Richard Harris, who headlines this year’s Hill Lecture, has covered science topics for NPR from Timbuktu, the South Pole, the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, to Beijing during SARS to the Amazon rain forest and the Galapagos. Refreshments for the event are courtesy of ETSPJ.
March 25, 2010 – Gender Issues in Journalism- 7:30 p.m., Howard Baker Jr. Center, 1640 Cumberland Ave., Knoxville (see below for UT area parking info). A panel of Knoxville female journalists past and present will discuss women in journalism and the “glass ceiling” question. Is it still there? What does it mean to be a woman journalist and what are issues women face in today’s media world? Have times changed? Is more change still needed? Moderator Cynthia Moxley, former newspaper journalist and now head of the successful Moxley Carmichael Public Relations firm, may also inquire about the 2008 presidential coverage of Clinton and Palin. Was the coverage fair? Was gender an issue in the coverage of this race? Panelists include Georgiana Vines, political columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel; Jean Ash, longtime reporter and anchor at WIVK/WNOX Radio; Jigsha Desai of the News Sentinel and Erin Donovan of WBIR-TV. FREE and open to the public.
April 2, 2010 – Regular Board Meeting- 9 a.m.at WVLT-TV studio, Papermill Road, Knoxville. Please print and bring copies of any e-mailed motions and reports.
April 2010 – SPJ Spring Conferences The conferences will be headquartered at the Holiday Inn Downtown/Conference Center, Knoxville. Session schedules and more information may be seen by clicking the “2010 Spring Conference” tab on top.
April 9 - Environmental journalism sessions
April 10 – SPJ Region 12 Regional Conference
May 15, 2010 – Golden Press Card Award Banquet - 5:30 Cash Bar Reception; 6:15 p.m. Dinner and awards at The Foundry on the north end of the World’s Fair site. The speaker will be Ms. Hagit Limor, president-elect of National SPJ and investigative reporter at WCPO-TV, Cincinnati. A listing of winners will be available at goldenpresscard.wordpress.com following the awards.
May 17, 2007 - FOI Program — Details coming soon.
June 24, 2010 – Deadline for receiving Follies auction items. For more information, please contact Georgiana Vines.
July 24, 2010 – Front Page Follies- Knoxville Convention Center – Reception and silent auction at 6 p.m. ; live auction, dinner and show following at 7 p.m. For all of the show’s details, please click Front Page Follies .
UT CAMPUS AREA and BAKER CENTER PARKING
- Many of our events are held at the University Center on the UT campus and at the Baker Center on Cumberland Avenue. Parking is available on the street in many cases or in the University Center (UC) garage. To find it from Cumberland Avenue, turn south onto Philip Fulmer Way, a block east of 16th Street. The UC is on the corner and the garage is just beyond the UC on the right. A little farther south is parking lot S-9 at the corner of Andy Holt Ave. and Philip Fulmer Way. This is generally available in the evenings at no cost unless there’s a sporting event or concert. To see a UT map, click UT campus map.
(Updated 3/11/10)
