Tuesday, July 4, 2006

You may be a 'professional journalist' and not know it The Society of Professional Journalists has launched a new site reaching out to freelance journalists, complete with its own blog and resource list. Bloggers may be interested in SPJ's current definition of "professional" for membership purposes: "You spend more than half your time working as a journalist or j-educator." And, if you're the significant other of one of those professional SPJ members, you can join for half price. Not the inducement to get romantic with a journalist, I guess, but who knows... Students also get a reduced rate. Many of SPJ's resources and services are available at http://SPJ.org for free, whether you are a member or not, but others, including SPJ's magazine... and the warm feeling that your dues might help in a journalist's legal defense fund... are well worth the price of admission. This post was inspired by a Media Giraffe conference attendee's request for "more sharing" by journalists with "citizen journalist" bloggers. More blogger comments from the conference at mgp2006 and  mediagiraffe 9:22:58 AM

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