Columbus Dispatch editor Ben Marrison will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 Central Ohio SPJ Founders Day Banquet on Thursday, May 7. As the editor at the Dispatch since 1999, Marrison has been attempting to find answers to the …

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Members are asked to submit nominations for the chapter’s annual awards. The board of directors will review the nominations and select winners in each category. The First Amendment Award: This award recognizes significant contributions to the First Amendment rights of …

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The Society of Professional Journalists will host Spring Conference 2009 on April 3-4 at the Doubletree Worthington, with programming support from the Online News Association and the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism. The event will open Friday, April 3, …

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U.S. presidential races always produce historic results, but this year’s race will end with either the first female vice president or the first African-American president. The national debate regarding racial and gender bias has been in full swing since the …

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Judging for the 2008 Ohio SPJ Awards has been completed and the results were made public this morning. Click on the image above or head to www.spjawards.org to see the results. The awards banquet and party will begin at 6 …

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The chapter will kick off the 2008-09 program season Sept. 4 with a trip to Fredericktown’s Main Street Free Press Museum for the program “And that’s the way it was: How we got the hometown newspaper out, back in the …

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