Results tagged “professionaljournalists”

Mark your calendars for Seattle Times columnist David Postman's "Blogging 101" workshop, sponsored by local SPJ chapter (that's Society of Professional Journalists, you scabs) 7pm Monday Dec 4 in the "Blogging World HQ Suite" at the P-I building. Non-SPJ members pay $7, but it's totally worth it, not just for the free pizza but because once you learn blogging, you can pretty much write your own ticket, dude!! And if you're gonna get certified as a blogger, why not go to the place where blogs were born—the office of a daily newspaper!

The Western Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists retreated to their hidden bat cave this weekend, probably performed some elaborate initiation rituals for new members involving chalices, robes and candles and then handed out some lucite. We covered this last year and blah blah blah it costs money to be considered for awards so a lot of people don't submit and it's hardly the Pulitzers anyway. We weren't going to say anything about it at all, but a few things are noteworthy regardless, particularly in the Online Media arena.

Thirty-five journos and Guinness officials (plus two air crews) are loaded into a Boeing 777 that began an attempt at the record books this morning. The flight is trying for the record for the longest continuous commercial flight and will be in the air for nearly twenty three hours as it circles the globe from Hong Kong to London.

Seattlest is feeling an amount of motivation to write on this subject that is nearing absolute zero, but we already contacted the editors of various weekly newspapers so we feel committed to posting something. The Western Washington branch of the Society for Professional Journalists recently released an avalanche of awards, a great many of which buried the Seattle Weekly under mounds of lucite. Congratulations Seattle Weekly. Seattle's other alternative weekly paper won one honorable mention. For shame, Stranger.