Detroit SPJ has partnered with The Association for Women in Communications Detroit Chapter to host a special event. Tuesday, March 16 - 6:00 PM FOIA: Learn How to Access Government Information The Flint Water crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic. Racial profiling. FOIA has exposed critical information behind them all. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) provides us the right to request access to records from any federal agency to be "in the know" about government activities. And states have passed similar laws. FOIA…

DETROIT SPJ Pro-chapter members can receive FREE training in Google Tools on Tuesday, Dec 14 from noon-1 pm. The SPJ Training Program in association with the Google News Initiative is providing this one-hour training session as a free introduction to Google Tools. The trainer is Benét J. Wilson. To receive a zoom link for the free training, email DETROIT SPJ-pro chapter programming chair Vincent Duffy at vduffy@umich.edu . Please put “Google training” in the subject line.

Please join your fellow journalists for an hour-long BYOB Holiday Happy Hour Party. We will meet and celebrate via Zoom on Tuesday, Dec. 14 from 6:30 – 7:30 PM. We want to join with our journalism friends to celebrate and get to know each other better. Ugly holiday sweaters are encouraged. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions of our Detroit SPJ board members. Please order a "free" ticket through Eventbrite. We will need your email address to…

The Association for Women in Communications Detroit chapter has lined up a super special program ripped straight from the national headlines. On Tuesday evening, February 8, we are privileged to have the award-winning journalist, Kim Kozlowski, join us for an in-depth look at a story she broke about Dr. Robert Anderson’s decades-long assault on young athletes at the University of Michigan.Go behind the scenes with the Detroit News higher-education reporter who uncovered - then covered - the shocking facts that…

Joins us for an information session with Report for America about its work in communities to strengthen them by helping sustain local journalism and learn how RFA helps newsrooms by subsidizing emerging journalists to report on undercovered issues and communities. The presenters Vincent D. McCraw – Report for American Region 2 Manager and SPJ Detroit Board member Earl Johnson – Director of Admissions for Report for America Clara Hendrickson – Report for America Corps member at Detroit Free Press Jiquanda…