FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (ATLANTA, GEORGIA) – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution sweeps the 2016 SPJ Region 3 Larry Peterson Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism by winning the grand prize for overall professional category for its series, “Doctors and Sex Abuse.” AJC Senior Editor for Investigations Lois Norder also wins an individual Larry Peterson Memorial Award for Investigative…
Category: Scholarships & Awards
SPJ Georgia recognized for diverse membership
At the September 2016 convention, delegates awarded our Georgia Pro membership with the Circle of Excellence Award in Diversity.
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It is award season for professional journalists. Win $400 for your investigative journalism work from the SPJ Region 3 and the Savannah Morning News by entering the Larry Peterson Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism. If you win, you will also travel to beautiful Savannah, Ga., all expenses paid to pick up your award at the Larry Peterson Investigative…
Monica Pearson wins award at Southern Regional Press Institute
(ATLANTA, GEORGIA) – Monica Kaufman Pearson, a SPJ member for more than 40 years, received the Robert S. Abbott Memorial Award for Meritorious Service in Mass Communications on Feb. 18 at the Southern Regional Press Institute at Savannah State University. Pearson also was the keynote speaker at the Milledge-Owens Awards Luncheon on Feb. 19. Pearson…
The Weather Channel, Telemundo, The Investigative Fund and Efran Films awarded SPJ New American Award
The Society of Professional Journalists named The Weather Channel, Telemundo, The Investigative Fund and Efran Films, represented by John Carlos Frey, Marisa Venegas, Solly Granatstein, Esther Kaplan, Neil Katz, Shawn Efran and Gregorty Gilderman the recipient of the its New American Award. The SPJ award honors work that explores and exposes issues of importance to…
The Weather Channel and CNN win Sigma Delta Chi Awards
SPJ Georgia announces two Georgia recipients of the 2014 Sigma Delta Chi Awards for excellence in journalism: The Weather Channel (with Telemuno/Efran Films/Investigative Fund) and CNN. To view one of The Weather Channel & associates’s video, “Dying to Cross,” see below. (This film also won the SPJ New American Award); To view “The Lead: UNC…
Six Georgia journalists win 2015 Green Eyeshade Awards
By Sharon Dunten, editor of SPeachJ News; president, SPJ Georgia Every year since 1950, the Green Eyeshade Awards have been given to the best in professional and collegiate journalism in southeastern U.S. Re-scored as the Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Award by the Society of Professional Journalists, it still stands as an annual award in…
New investigative journalism award — Larry Peterson Memorial Award
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA — SPJ Georgia chapter is launching an award this June to present the best in investigative journalism in SPJ Region 3: Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and Alabama AND both professionals and students may apply. The Larry Peterson Memorial Award for Investigative Journalism was developed to celebrate the life of Larry Peterson and his…
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