Join fellow journalists for a special APC holiday mixer at Taco Mac in Buckhead. Enjoy appetizers and good cheer. Sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club and the Georgia chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. WHEN Tuesday, December 13 6:30 to 9 p.m. WHERE Taco Mac Lindbergh City Center 573 Main St NE Atlanta, GA 30324 R.S.V.P….
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Freelance committee meeting
ANNOUNCEMENT: The SPJ Georgia Pro committee on freelance journalism will meet on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 7:30 p.m. at the Starbucks on Ashford Dunwoody Road. Address: 4441 Ashford Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody, Ga. 30346. Anyone interested in this committee, which is working toward organizing and promoting a freelance workshop in May 2017, should contact Haisten Willis at Haisten.Willis@Gmail.com.
SPJ Georgia media conference highlights judge’s abuse of power after open records request
SPJ Georgia, First Amendment foundation and others credited with jailed publisher’s release By Julius Suber, SPJ Georgia Board Member Journalists hung on every word of the panel discussion, which included Fannin Focus Publisher Mark Thomason, who tried doggedly to get information on a story he believed could be authenticated or not by information obtained from…
Jailing of the press in Georgia
Nydia Tisdale showed up to record a Georgia Republican Party campaign rally at Burt’s Pumpkin Farm in Dawsonville on Aug. 23, 2014. A little bit into her recording, she was forcibly removed by a police officer, even after admitting she had received permission to be at the public gathering by one of the property owners….
SPJ National lauds local efforts fighting for publisher
SPJ members from around the country celebrated the victory of a small-town Georgia newspaper publisher against a judge who didn’t appreciate his journalism. Delegates also commended the SPJ Georgia chapter for its tireless efforts to help push the judge to drop her specious charges. Mark Thomason, the publisher of the Fannin Focus, received a proclamation from…
SPJ Georgia welcomes dismissal of charges against publisher
The Georgia chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists today is grateful that a judge has finally signed an order to drop charges against a newspaper publisher who was jailed for filing an open records request. Senior Judge Richard Winegarden on July 18 agreed to sign the order dismissing charges against Fannin Focus publisher Mark…
Georgia Publisher still caught up in criminal justice system over records request
ATLANTA – Despite the announcement on July 7 that charges would be dropped against Mark Thomason, the north Georgia newspaper publisher remains under indictment on felony charges for filing an open records request. The order to drop the charges was sent to Senior Court Judge Richard Winegarden who has refused to sign the order, calling…
SPJ: Dropping of charges against newspaper publisher is overdue
The Georgia professional chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is thrilled that a prosecutor has dropped three felony charges against a newspaper publisher who sought public records. It’s about time. Those charges should never have been filed. While we are thankful Mark Thomason, publisher of the Blue Ridge, Ga.-based Fannin Focus, no longer has the…
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