SPJ: Phoenix, Arizona Chapter

Photo courtesy of Flinn Foundation

This April, we’re presenting a powerful, exciting and fun spring journalism conference in the heart of Phoenix. All the connections, lots of skills, plenty of interaction – all revitalizing your drive to cover your beat. All of it will take place in one day. Everything will be on the same street and everything will be accessible by light rail. It includes a continental breakfast, lunch and a couple of receptions. And it’s only $49 for professionals, $29 for students. 

All journalists and journalism students are welcome – no need to be an SPJ member,. When you visit the registration site, see our offer of free conference admission (that’s right, free) if you join SPJ or renew your current membership before the conference. Get more info and sign up today — as seats are limited — at https://spjphxconference26.eventbrite.com.

The Valley of the Sun chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists presents “It’s a Dry Beat: Speaking Truth in a Truthiness Age,” the 2026 SPJ Region 11 Conference. Join colleagues from Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and the Mariana Islands on Friday, April 10, at the spacious modern facilities of the Flinn Foundation, 1802 N. Central Ave., Phoenix.

This is the conference you always wanted to attend, but the only ones out there were too long, too far away and too expensive:

·         A full day of incredibly useful workshops and a spirited discussions about where journalism is heading and our best ways to prepare for it.

·         At day’s end, colleagues at The Arizona Republic/azcentral.com are our hosts for a late afternoon reception and tour of their recently opened newsroom at Park Central, just a few blocks north of the Flinn Foundation building.

·         The evening before, Thursday, April 9, early arrivals are welcome to join us a few blocks south at a pre-conference happy-hour-style social gathering — the chapter is buying the appetizers — at a well-known historic Phoenix restaurant nearby.Please join us on Friday. April 10. You won’t find anywhere a better deal to obtain so much useful, productive journalism knowledge in one day. Sign up at https://spjphxconference26.eventbrite.com. 

We’re grateful for the support of our conference sponsors: The Flinn Foundation, the national Society of Professional Journalists, the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Sci-Line of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and The Arizona Republic/azcentral.