FPC Needs College Speakers Hello Members! The Florida Press Club has relaunched its college speaker bureau, intended to broach the divide between professional journalists and aspiring ones. The Florida Press Club is asking its members to speak to journalism classes at colleges throughout the state. This is a fantastic way to reach out to your future colleagues and also a …
Florida News and Announcements
Call for nominations for courts/legal reporting workshop The 21st Annual Florida Bar Reporters’ Workshop will be held Sept. 20-21 in Tallahassee. This intensive two-day event is designed for 24 print, TV and radio journalists new to the courts and legal beats, or new to Florida. The workshop is presented by The Florida Bar Media and Communications Law Committee and will …
Banquet
Save the date: 6:30-10 p.m. Saturday, October 24. If you haven’t decided whether to attend the Florida Press Club Awards Banquet, which celebrates the winners of the annual 2009 Excellence in Journalism Contest award winners, I would highly recommend making your reservation. We are known — ask anyone — for our terrific banquet and after party. I’d even recommend going …
Coddington Update
I had this update to “Journalism Generosity” sent to me on my personal blog and thought I would share: UPDATE: Because of people like you who have been willing to share Steve’s struggle with others, we have raised nearly $20,000.00 for Marian Coddington’s desperately needed therapy. We are deeply grateful for all of the support you have already given Steve …
Journalism generosity
As I wrote in my personal blog: Steve Coddington is a photojournalist for The St. Petersburg Times. He’s fighting CIGNA to get appropriate care for his wife, who had a subarachnoid hemorrhage. CIGNA, of course, is foiling him in every way, and now Coddington’s wife is getting no care. He’s on leave, taking care of his wife and children. Their …
Another closing
Bob Norman The New Times of Broward-Palm Beach reports The Boca Raton News shut down. Or, basically, shut down since only one person is running the Web site, which is mostly ads. The Boca Raton News joins a long list of others in Florida, which have gone down: Miami SunPost, Coral Gables Gazette (Online only) and WeekDay, which covered North …
Welcome to the blog
The officers of the Florida Press Club have been looking for ways to make the organization more useful to you, our journalism colleagues. With the industry in turmoil, we wanted a place to discuss all the changes going on in the industry, to share ideas to “save” print journalism and to highlight the good work that is still going on. …
Hello!
Welcome this is the new Florida Press Club Blog! We will be using this blog to keep you up to date with news in Journalism.
The Sharks Are Circling
The Los Angeles Times reports that three new partnerships have emerged as players in the bidding for Knight-Ridder, owner of The Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The San Jose Mercury News, and 30 other newspapers. These groups, including one involving Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., formerly Wall Street’s hostile takeover king, join the union representing Knight-Ridder employees, a group of …
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