By Sharon Dunten, SPJ Region 3 Assistant Regional Director; editor, SizingUpTheSouth.com and an Atlanta-based freelance journalist Atlanta, GEORGIA — Meredith Cummings remembers the day when her grandfather was killed by gun violence. “I’m just a girl from Alabama who had a family member murdered. That doesn’t matter to most people on most days, but on days like today…
Washington, D.C. – In the wake of the deadly shootings at the Capital Gazette newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland on Thursday, 200-plus organizations, including the Society of Professional Journalists, and individuals have signed a strong statement spearheaded by the Student Press Law Center calling for an end to the environment which threatens journalists. As a Washington Post story…
COMMENTARY By Sharon Dunten, Assistant Regional Director, Society of Professional Journalists- Region 3; freelance journalist based out of Atlanta, Georgia. Was the shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, a threat to the First Amendment? Yes, it is a threat to the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment. Whether it was a hate crime against a…
— From SPJ Georgia Misinformation and fake news are forcing journalists to re-evaluate how they navigate information online. Amid the fray, one site in particular has become embedded in their daily consumption of information: Wikipedia. Siri and Alexa use it to answer our questions, and Google brings it to the top of our search results.…
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…
