01/14/18 – SPJ Meeting Minutes

 

Meeting at NCounter, downtown PHX

 

10:21 am Opening

• Previous minutes approved – one small correction – Teri’s name had two “r’s” which was incorrect.
• Treasurer’s report à SPJ Holiday Party was a good turn out. We ended up ordering a bit more food because we had so many people come. So it was a success.

o   Annual 9-90 form is filed

o   Cash available à $4,528.02

o   We need to decide if we’re going to do a scholarship this year

• And we should recruit the scholarship winners
• Mark’s Mighty Minute

o   Missed our chance to partner with Cronkite to screen “The Post.”

• How do we want to move forward with Cronkite – they don’t reach out to us.
• Shall we contact Kristin Gilger and speak with her? Mark knows her. Tim can reach out to Gilger and copy Dean Chris Callahan.

o   Moving forward, we should do film stuff on our own. Kaely has connections with the screening opportunities if we ever want to do screenings. She can reach out.

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10:39 Old Business

• NewsTrain, April 6-7 at ASU Cronkite – SPJ is a sponsor

o   We don’t have to give money but they would like us to – we’re not on the hook for money. However, we are willing to give some money but we need the details first.

o   Tim will reach out to find out how much money they want and what we get in return.

o   We should inform all our members of this à we’ll do an e-blast à Tim will see if they have a press release we can share with our members

 

10:45 New Business

• Carrie’s First Amendment Coalition – she submitted her first report. Tim sent us the report in the Agenda email.

o   Carrie is moving to Boston – Paige Phelps will be our new rep for them.

• Sunshine Week (March 11-17)

o   FOIA Nuts and Bolts à Discussion by Dave Cuillier

o   We need to start promoting now

o   If we’re offering professional development we should charge a small amount

o   If we offer an hour 2, we can discuss “The Post” à FOIA in action

• Who would we have on that panel à Dennis Wagner, Jim Small, Kris Beecher (Housing Authority) à any women or people of color?
• Government Accountability Project event idea – Paula Pendene

o   She has various programming ideas – we should groom her for the board

 

• Other programming we’re working on:

o   Covering aging population (Deb Krol) – April (later spring)

• Reach out to Banner and aging groups, and Kathy Ritchie at KJZZ (kritchie@kjzz.org, http://kjzz.org/aging)
• We need a working blurb on what this panel is about
• Reporting on Alzheimer’s à Deb will create a working doc on this and get it to Tim

o   Eliminating the use of jargon in journalism (Mark Scarp) – plan for fall

• Add reporting on vulgarities as well

o   Transborder issues (Robert Leger)

 

• News round of border members à who will be next?

o   We need to start farming a pool of people

o   We’ll be voting again in June.

o   Paula Pendene

o   Colleen Sparks – Teri will reach out to her

o   Should we rotate roles as well? Bring more people in for new roles.

• Casey McCormick – Lightfinder PR – Mark / Tim will reach out to her

o   She’s interested in getting involved with SPJ

o   She does event planning stuff and she could help with social media

• Start determining award nominees
• January Mixer — > at The Original Wineburger Jan 19

 

Meeting End – 11:39 am

Kaely Monahan, Chapter Secretary