By Isaiah Singleton, SPJ Region 3 summer intern, senior at Savannah State University student studying mass communication and journalism Podcasts are very hot in the world of news and information. It provides a positive trend for the journalism industry while other avenues to provide news to the masses are struggling to survive. And the the art of…
Project South was founded as the Institute to Eliminate Poverty & Genocide in 1986. Their work is rooted in the legacy of the Southern Freedom Movement, with four primary work areas to achieve their mission of cultivating strong social movements in the South powerful enough to contend with some of the most pressing and complicated…
By Isaiah Singleton, SPJ Region 3 summer intern, senior at Savannah State University student studying mass communication and journalism Moscow, RUSSIA — Although the United States did not make the cut for the 2018 Men’s FIFA World Cup, America and its state of Georgia was still be represented by a group of Kennesaw State University…
The following are Green Eye Shade Winners from SPJ Region 3: 2018 GREEN EYE SHADE WINNER Sarasota Herald-Tribune – One War. Two Races by Josh Salman, Dak Le, and Michael Braga Judges’ comment: This was the total package. The depth of reporting, excellent storytelling through text, pictures, video, and innovative use of data visualization showed that blacks are…
Editor’s Note: SPJ Region 3’s summer intern Isaiah Singleton is working in Panama as a student journalist along with Savannah State University Department of Journalism and Mass Communication’s aboard program this early June. Singleton will share his views and insights of his experience as a journalist in Panama. By Isaiah Singleton, SPJ Region 3 summer intern, Savannah…
COMMENTARY Journoterrorist By Michael Koretzky WANTED: A reporter to cover just one city council meeting in Paint Rock, Alabama. I’ll pay your airfare, rental car, hotel room – and your bail. Paint Rock (population: 210) is a speck of a town in Alabama’s northeast corner. It’s a 30-minute drive to Tennessee and an hour to Georgia.…
COMMENTARY By Sharon Dunten, Assistant Regional Director, Society of Professional Journalists- Region 3; freelance journalist based out of Atlanta, Georgia. ALABAMA — It’s becoming a disturbing trend in small town America: government officials are banning the press and sometimes their own citizens from open meetings. Case in point: Paint Rock, Alabama. It is nestled by…
