SPJ DePaul announced its new executive board members on April 20. The new board takes control immediately and will oversee events, programs and day-to-day operations of the chapter. The board members:
President: Ali Trumbull
Vice President: Ryann Rumbaugh
Secretary: Brianna Kelly
Membership/PR Coordinator: Monica Carter
Members of SPJ DePaul's executive board pose with awards from Good Day DePaul and The Red Line Project.
DePaul University journalism students won 19 awards — including six first-place finishes — at the SPJ Region 5 Mark of Excellence Awards April 14 in Indianapolis.
The six winners advance to the national Mark of Excellence Awards to compete with 11 other regions. Those winners will be announced in late September.
Region 5 covers universities and colleges in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky.
The list of winners:
Thank you for attending the SPJ Region 5 Social Media Ethics presentation with Amy Bartner of the Indianapolis Star and Mike Reilley of DePaul University and The Journalist’s Toolbox.
We’ll be tweeting under #spjethics and the #spjr5 conference hashtag. Please include them when you tweet. Mike will Storify the highlights of the discussion off the #spjethics hashtag and post the link below by April 15.
Here are some of the resources we are sharing during the seminar as well as some other ethics goodies:
SPJ Code of Ethics (.pdf)
Indianapolis Star Social Media Guidelines
RTDNA Social Media and Blogging Guidelines
Ethical Dilemmas and Case Studies (Powerpoint from today’s presentation, including Amy’s case studies)
Mandy Jenkins: You’re Boss is Going to Love These Party Pics … (Powerpoint)
NY Times: False Nikki Haley Twitter Reports Spreads Fast
Poynter: Branded journalists battle newsroom regulations
Twitter Credibility Study by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon
Mike Reilley’s Delicious Bookmarks (search ethics in the tagline field)
Mindy McAdams’ Social Media for Journalists (Powerpoint on slideshare)
Poynter: How to Verify News Accounts on Social Media (Jeff Sonderman)
Journalists to Follow on Twitter (Word document)
SPJ DePaul has openings on its executive board for Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer, Membership/Publicity Coordinator and Events/Programs coordinator. Read through the instructions below and follow the directions to apply.
Executive board members must have Thursday late-afternoons and Thursday nights free and must have five to 10 hours a week to dedicate to SPJ DePaul.
SPJ DePaul Officer Job Descriptions, 2012-13 Term
Officer Election and Service Time Frame
New officers will take over late in the spring quarter. This model allows for the new leadership to get situated before the fall quarter begins. The Spring quarter to Spring quarter appointments enable the new officers to be trained before the new academic year starts in the fall.
Therefore, undergraduate seniors with one quarter remaining and second-year graduate students with one quarter remaining are ineligible to hold officer positions. You must be able to fulfill your entire officer term within your academic eligibility. There are no GPA requirements for leadership positions. You must be enrolled as a full-time DePaul student and be a member of SPJ National and SPJ DePaul to be eligible for a position.
Executive Board
The executive board presides over the chapter. Members of the executive board are: President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer, Membership Coordinator/Publicity Coordinator, Events-Programs Coordinator and the Chapter Adviser.
We have executive board positions available for the following positions: Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer, Membership/Publicity Coordinator and Events/Programs Coordinator.
To apply: Applicants are required to bring a resume to an interview with Chapter President Ali Trumbull and Chapter Adviser Mike Reilley on April 19 or 20. A sign-up sheet for interview times is on Reilley’s office door, 14 E. Jackson Blvd., room 1106. The president and adviser will announce their decisions within a week. You will be notified by email.
Moderator Anne Kavanaugh (left) and panelists prepare for the discussion.
SPJ DePaul’s Freedom of Information Panel discussion on Thursday offered tips on using FOIA requests and insight to how investigative journalists work.
The two-hour panel, moderated by DePaul adjunct journalism instructor and former TV news reporter Anne Kavanaugh, featured panelists Tim Novak and Chris Fusco of the Chicago Sun-Times and Mick Dumke of the Chicago Reader. The free event drew nearly 50 people to the basement theater at DePaul’s Daley Building, 14 E. Jackson Blvd.
Miss the event? Craig Newman of the Chicago Sun-Times archived live-tweets and background in a Storify.
SPJ DePaul Vice President Lauren Camplin (left) and Publicity Coordinator Ali Trumbull work on the social media presentation.
SPJ DePaul traveled to Brother Rice High School on Dec. 13 to teach a journalism class how to utilize social media for news-gathering and reporting. Three students in the class already used Twitter, but the chapter helepd register the rest of 20-plus students on the social media site.
Chapter members Tabitha Hurley, Ali Trumbull, Lauren Camplin and Katie Karpowicz covered Twitter etiquette with the students, such as picking an appropriate Twitter handle, hashtags and how to retweet. Twitter is essential for students interested in journalism because people are relying more on social media sites for news delivery.
SPJ DePaul Secretary Tabitha Hurley, a Brother Rice alum, makes a point during the presentation.
SPJ DePaul wanted to make the students aware that Twitter is going to play a large role in their journalism careers, if they choose to have one. Most professional journalists are required to tweet regularly in their jobs.
The chapter also showed the class websites such as Twitpic and HootSuite that allow you to upload pictures to your Twitter or manage multiple Twitter accounts easier.
Multiple accounts are great managing professional and personal Twitter accounts. It is always important to remember to be professional when tweeting when representing a news organization or when applying for internships or jobs with a news outlet.
Other key lessons: Remember to act professional when using Twitter, have personality and fact-check what people tweet before using the information.
