By Sharon Dunten, SPJ Assistant Region 3 Director and freelance journalist and photographer As a journalist, if you haven’t covered a hurricane, it will be nothing like you have covered before in your lifetime. There isn’t any way to predict what you will be experiencing, what you will be seeing and feeling, and how humanity…
By David Baxley, SPJ South Carolina member and Assistant Professor of Mass Communications, Francis Marion University The utter devastation along the Texas coast is mind-boggling. Cities and towns lie in ruins. The nation’s fourth largest city is submerged in floodwaters, the likes of which this nation has never seen. Hurricane Harvey’s legacy will be remembered by generations to…
By Michael Koretzky The University of South Carolina’s football team literally kicks off its season Saturday. If you didn’t already know, you might not believe this: USC’s mascot is a rooster known as a gamecock, and its students cheer on their sports teams with chants of GO COCKS. The double entendres are inevitable. Which means whenever USC loses…
By Adina Solomon, SPJ Georgia member and freelance journalist I admit it: As I write this, my mind feels scattered between everything I need to do in the coming hours and days. Working as a freelance journalist means that in addition to all the normal duties – talking with sources, researching, writing – I have…
KENNESAW, GEORGIA — Bill Phelps recently joined SPJ Georgia because he works as a journalism instructor at Harrison High School in Kennesaw and wants to make the best use of local resources available. The chapter is hopeful its college journalism students will work to mentor and encourage Georgia high school students interested in journalism. …
By Michael Koretzky In the past week, one magazine has… • praised Donald Trump’s Afghanistan policy, • detailed how “antifa” violence has paralyzed a major U.S. city, • explained why single payer – aka “Medicare for all” – will piss off more Americans than Obamacare ever did. In the same week, that magazine also… • Declared Trump is “unfit…
Editor’s Note: This is the final article on a series about journalism ethics and the SPJ Code of Ethics by Zach Garner, a graduate in journalism from Washington State University. He was the spring intern for SPJ Region 3 and SizingUpTheSouth.com. Garner will continue to be a contributor for this publication. Opinion By Zach Garner,…