SPJ Shenanigans, 2022

It’s that time of year, when each SPJ chapter reports to our national organization on our activities for the past year. It’s always a good time for reflection, for reviewing the programs that worked, the ones that didn’t, and setting our goals for the coming year. I’ll skip all the boring financial and organizational stuff,…

St. Louis SPJ condemns Gov. Parson’s attack on journalists

To threaten journalists for doing their jobs is the very definition of governmental overreach. Today Gov. Mike Parson announced that he intends to prosecute the reporters of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for uncovering a potentially disastrous security flaw in the state’s web infrastructure. This gesture goes beyond mere overreach, to create a chilling effect discouraging…