jQuery16405509239386301488_1488547254389({"responseStatus":200,"responseDetails":null,"responseData":{"feed":{"feedUrl":"http://spj.org/rss_news.asp?T=S","title":"SPJ News","link":"http://www.spj.org/","description":"SPJ Delivers Today's Media News","author":"","entries":[{"title":"Groups urge officials to allow journalists to do their work at Standing Rock","link":"http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=1488","content":"Contacts:<br>\nLynn Walsh, SPJ National President, 614-579-7937, <email address=\"lynn.k.walsh@gmail.com\">Lynn.K.Walsh@gmail.com</a><br>\nJennifer Royer, SPJ Communications Strategist, 317-361-4134, <email address=\"jroyer@spj.org\">jroyer@spj.org</a><br>\n<br>\nINDIANAPOLIS – The Society of Professional Journalists and other journalism groups <a href=\"http://spj.org/pdf/news/standing-rock-letter-FINAL.pdf\">sent a letter today</a> as the planned enforcement of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ evacuation order to those at the Dakota Access Pipeline camp is underway. <br>\n<br>\nIn their letter, SPJ, Committee to Protect Journalists, Native American Journalists Association, National Press Photographers Association and Online News Association urge officials in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, to allow journalists to cover the events at Standing Rock safely.<br>\n<br>\n“The journalists at Standing Rock are doing the important work of letting the public know what is happening there, and they need to be able to do that work without fear of arrest, violence or confiscation of their equipment,” said SPJ National President Lynn Walsh. <br>\n<br>\nThe groups contacted the Morton County Sheriff’s Department last week to offer training to law enforcement and journalists there on ways they can peacefully work together. As of this afternoon, the sheriff’s department had not responded.<br>\n<br>\nThe organizations additionally urge officials to drop charges against journalists who have been arrested while covering Standing Rock.<br>\n<br>\n<i>SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to informing citizens; works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists; and fights to protect First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press. Support excellent journalism and fight for your right to know. <a href=\"http://www.spj.org/join.asp\">Become a member</a>, <a href=\"https://www.spj.org/ldf.asp\">give to the Legal Defense Fund</a>, or <a href=\"https://www.spj.org/donate.asp\">give to the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation</a>.</i>","contentSnippet":"Contacts:\nLynn Walsh, SPJ National President, 614-579-7937, Lynn.K.Walsh@gmail.com\nJennifer Royer, SPJ Communications St","publishedDate":"2017-02-21T05:00:00.000Z","categories":[],"author":""},{"title":"Quotes from SPJ leaders on today’s White House press conference","link":"http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=1487","content":"<b>MEDIA ADVISORY</b><br>\n<br>\nContacts:<br>\nLynn Walsh, SPJ National President, 614-579-7937, <email address=\"lynn.k.walsh@gmail.com\">lynn.k.walsh@gmail.com</a><br>\nJennifer Royer, SPJ Communications Strategist, 317-361-4134, <email address=\"jroyer@spj.org\">jroyer@spj.org</a><br>\n<br>\nINDIANAPOLIS – The following quotes from <a href=\"https://www.spj.org/index.asp\">Society of Professional Journalists</a> leaders may be used in stories regarding today’s White House press conference and/or the <a href=\"https://action.donaldjtrump.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=GOP_surveys_Mainstream-Media-Accountability-Survey&utm_content=021617-media-survey-djt-jfc-p-p-hf-e-1&utm_source=e_p-p/\">mainstream media survey</a> sent out this afternoon by the Trump Make America Great Again Committee. <br>\n<br>\n<b>Lynn Walsh, Society of Professional Journalists national president:</b> “When President Trump continues his anti-media, anti-press rhetoric, tip-toes around questions from journalists and chooses not to provide support for information he shares, the American public is the biggest loser. The public is entitled to ask the White House, Mr. Trump and other government officials and employees questions, whether the topics are something they feel are newsworthy or appropriate. Journalists fill the role for the public by working every day to hold them accountable, ask about policies and question facts, figures and information being shared by the government. Journalists will continue to do their jobs to hold this administration and all government officials accountable so the public can have the information it is entitled to.”<br>\n<br>\n<b>Andrew Seaman, SPJ Ethics Committee chair:</b> “President Trump's treatment of journalists at today's press conference and his new email to supporters asking for their evaluation of the ‘mainstream media’ is more evidence that he believes the press is at war with the White House. In reality, journalists are just fulfilling their jobs of holding our nation's power brokers accountable to the American people. As they have for hundreds of years, journalists will continue to be a pillar of democracy by ethically and thoroughly reporting on the presidency. The Society of Professional Journalists will have their backs.”<br>\n<br>\n<b>Gideon Grudo, SPJ Freedom of Information Committee chair:</b> “Even with a billion-response-survey summary calling the media ‘failing,’ American journalism will continue to prove with every passing day that a free press holds the government accountable. Even the angriest and most hugely accusatory fingers from those at the top of levels of our government will not -- and will never -- change that. Though Trump may try to curtail the public's trust in the press, thus diminishing the freedom it has in communicating with the public, he will ultimately fail.”<br>\n<br>\n<i>SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to informing citizens; works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists; and fights to protect First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press. Support excellent journalism and fight for your right to know. <a href=\"http://www.spj.org/join.asp\">Become a member,</a> <a href=\"https://www.spj.org/ldf.asp\">give to the Legal Defense Fund,</a> or <a href=\"https://www.spj.org/donate.asp\">give to the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation.</a></i><br>\n<br>\n<div align\"=center\">--END--</div>","contentSnippet":"MEDIA ADVISORY\n\nContacts:\nLynn Walsh, SPJ National President, 614-579-7937, lynn.k.walsh@gmail.com\nJennifer Royer, SPJ C","publishedDate":"2017-02-16T05:00:00.000Z","categories":[],"author":""},{"title":"SPJ Legal Defense Fund Roundup – January 2017","link":"http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=1486","content":"Contacts:<br>\nLynn Walsh, SPJ National President, 614-579-7937, <email address=\"lynn.k.walsh@gmail.com\">Lynn.K.Walsh@gmail.com</a><br>\nRachel Semple, SPJ Communications Coordinator, 317-920-4785, <email address=\"rsemple@spj.org\">rsemple@spj.org</a><br>\n<br>\nINDIANAPOLIS – As a free press and free speech advocate, SPJ’s Legal Defense Fund Committee initiates and joins court briefs to support First Amendment and open records cases. <br>\n<br>\nThe following are amicus briefs and other action the LDF Committee took in December<br>\n <br>\n<b>Buehler v. City of Austin</b><br>\nSPJ joins the National Press Photographers Association and other media organizations in the support of Antonio Buehler. Buehler was arrested in 2012 for recording the activities of police officers conducting a DUI stop and the charges were later acquitted. In 2014, he sued the Austin Police Department for false arrest, which was dismissed by the Fifth Circuit court. SPJ and other organizations are supporting his petition to the Supreme Court to review that decision, urging it to consider whether his arrest was a retaliation against his recording, an activity protected by the First Amendment.<br>\n<br>\nRead the full brief <a href=\"https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/buehler-austin-pd.pdf\">here</a>.<br>\n<br>\nSPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to informing citizens; works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists; and fights to protect First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press. The First Amendment also guarantees the press and the public a right of access to criminal trials, including pretrial proceedings, and documents submitted in connection with them. <br>\n<br>\nThe LDF Committee also oversees the <a href=\"https://www.spj.org/ldf.asp\">Legal Defense Fund</a>, a unique account that can be used to provide journalists with legal or direct financial assistance.<br>\n<br>\n<i>SPJ promotes the free flow of information vital to informing citizens; works to inspire and educate the next generation of journalists; and fights to protect First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech and press. Support excellent journalism and fight for your right to know. <a href=\"http://www.spj.org/join.asp\">Become a member</a>, <a href=\"https://www.spj.org/ldf.asp\">give to the Legal Defense Fund</a>, or <a href=\"https://www.spj.org/donate.asp\">give to the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation</a>.</i>","contentSnippet":"Contacts:\nLynn Walsh, SPJ National President, 614-579-7937, Lynn.K.Walsh@gmail.com\nRachel Semple, SPJ Communications Coo","publishedDate":"2017-01-26T05:00:00.000Z","categories":[],"author":""}]}}});