OUR NEXT EVENT — “BEER FOR BYLINES”: Our annual Summer Solstice Soiree and chapter elections will be 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 21, the longest day of the year, at State 48 Brewery, 345 W. Van Buren St. in downtown Phoenix. This year, we’re adding a refreshing angle we call Beer for Bylines: Bring in a recent byline (let’s say its posting/publishing/broadcasting had to have occurred sometime since June 1) and, in exchange for your brief recounting of the story behind the story, the chapter will buy you a beer (or non-alcoholic beverage). (We’re grateful to the Utah SPJ chapter in Salt Lake City for the idea; they held a successful Beer for Bylines event in March.) More on this event and the elections will be announced soon.

Members: We will briefly hold voice-vote elections for our 2023-2024 chapter officers at this event. Any member of the chapter (current on national and local dues) interested in serving as president, vice president, secretary or treasurer should email phoenixspj@cox.net no later than June 10, 2023.

RECORDING OF “BEYOND OBJECTIVITY” NOW AVAILABLE! Did you miss our engaging discussion on how the traditional standard of “objectivity” is under attack from increasingly diverse newsrooms, saying it has excluded too many young journalists, the people they serve, and the issues they care about from a monochromatic picture of reality. WE recorded our April; 26 program with Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of The Washington Post, and Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News, who led a conversation about their report “Beyond Objectivity: Producing Trustworthy News in Today’s Newsrooms.” To download the recording, please click here.

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