Society of Professional Journalists
William O. Douglas Chapter
Central and Southeastern Washington state
Region 10 Conference
March 31-April 1, 2006
Clover Island Inn in Kennewick, Wash.
Friday, March 30
Wine tasting with Wine Press Northwest magazine
Region 10 Mark of Excellence Awards
Legal Defense Fund fundraiser
Saturday, April 1
Keynote
David E. Carlson / Society of Professional Journalists
Carlson is national president of the Society of Professional Journalists, the oldest and largest journalism organization in the United States.
Ethics: the Jim West story
Bill Morlin / Spokesman Review
Morlin is an investigative reporter at The Spokesman-Review, where he has worked for 34 years. He spent three years investigating former Spokane Mayor Jim West. The paper's series of stories in May 2006 led to West's recall seven months later. In 2001, he wrote a multipart series on serial killer Robert Yates. And last month, he broke the story on police detectives deleting sexually explicit photos taken in a Spokane fire station by an on-duty firefighter.
Cliff Rowe / Pacific Lutheran University
Rowe has been teaching journalism at Pacific Lutheran University for 30 years. He is a past chairman of the national SPJ ethics committee and was a member of the SPJ committee that drafted the society's first code of ethics in the late 1960s and helped with two revisions.
360-degree Journalism
Ken Paulman / The Spokesman-Review
Paulman is an online producer at The Spokesman-Review, where he oversees dynamic content for the paper's award-winning Web site.
David Carlson / University of Florida
Carlson is the professor of new media journalism and director of the Interactive Media Lab at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. He is founding editor of an interactive newspaper launched in Albuquerque in 1990 and believed to be the first multiline, PC-based interactive newspaper product in the world.
Andy Perdue / Tri-City Herald
Perdue is the interactive media director for the Tri-City Herald.
The Meth Epidemic
Steve Suo / The Oregonian
Steve is a veteran reporter at The Oregonian. His specialty as a journalist is long-term projects that combine statistical analysis with traditional investigative techniques. The newspaper's series "Unnecessary Epidemic" showed how the federal government and profit-driven pharmaceutical companies long ago could have contained the spread of the country's insidious methamphetamine epidemic.
Taking it to the next level
George Rede / The Oregonian
Rede is director of recruiting and training at The Oregonian, where he has worked since 1985. He coordinates newsroom hiring, manages in-house training activities and directs the paper's internship and minority residency programs.
Mike Lee / San Diego Union-Tribune
Lee covers environmental issues for the San Diego Union-Tribune. He joined the paper in 2005 after two years of writing about agriculture and biotechnology at the Sacramento Bee. Before that, he covered similar beats at the Tri-City Herald.
Chuck Taylor / Seattle Weekly
Taylor is managing editor of Seattle Weekly. His first job after Whitman College was at the Tri-City Herald, where he worked as a reporter and editor until he joined The Seattle Times. During the newspaper strike of 2000-01,Taylor founded and edited the Seattle Union Record, a newspaper and Web site published by striking staffers of The Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Journalism under fire: Shield laws to secrecy
Rowland Thompson / Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington
Thompson is executive director of Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington. He represents the newspapers of Washington before the Legislature, local governments and the Administrator of the Courts. He serves on the governing committee and the liaison committee of the Bench Bar Press.
Ian Marquand / Montana Television Network
Marquand is special projects coordinator for the Montana Television Network, operating out of KPAX-TV in Missoula. His news reports, special programs and weekly "Under the Big Sky" series are seen statewide, and he writes a column for the Missoulian newspaper. He served as national Freedom of Information Committee chair for SPJ. He also serves as president of SPJ's Montana Pro Chapter and as president of the Montana Freedom of Information Hotline.
Landing your first job
Bob Crider / Yakima Herald-Republic
Crider has been managing editor at the Yakima Herald-Republic since 1997. Prior to that he was city editor and assistant editor at the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, assistant city editor and reporter for The (Longview) Daily News, and a reporter for the East Oregonian in Pendleton, Ore. He also was a reporter for 11 years.
Rick Larson / Tri-City Herald
Larson has been managing editor at the Tri-City Herald since 2000. He has worked at the Herald for 21 years. He began at the Herald as a reporter and was promoted after a year to city editor, then to assistant managing editor
in 1991. He spent 14 years as a reporter with papers in Arcata, Calif., and Pendleton, Ore.
James Joyce III / Yakima Herald-Republic
Joyce has been the education reporter at the Yakima Herald-Republic since June 2004. He is a 2002 graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at the Ohio University. He interned at the Baltimore Business Journal and the Ventura (Calif.) Star. His first full-time gig was with the Gannett-owned Chronicle-Tribune in Marion, Ind.
Getting to a major TV market
Essex Porter / KIRO TV Seattle
Porter covers government and politics for KIRO TV in Seattle. He began his broadcast career at KLMS Radio in Lincoln, Neb., then served as a television reporter at KETV in Omaha,and KATU in Portland, Ore., before joining KIRO. He has earned three Emmy nominations for his reporting and anchoring.
Shelly Swanke / KOIN TV Portland
Swanke joined KOIN TV, the CBS station in Portland, in 1996. She has held several different positions - field producer, special projects producer and assignment desk manager. She started in the early 80's in the Tri-Cities at KVEW as a general assignment reporter/weather person. She worked her way up to anchor/producer. After working in public relations and a short time with KBCI in Boise, she returned to Washington to be the news director/anchor at KNDO in Yakima.
Zen - the newsroom flip side
A Tri-City author shows you how to take charge of your finances and manage your bills on a reporter's salary.
Learn some yoga techniques for finding the calm after deadline.