Society of Professional Journalists Los Angeles
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SPJ denounces threat to independence of White House reporters’ press pool
The Society of Professional Journalists is alarmed by the White House’s announcement that it is upending a time-tested system controlled by journalists to determine the rotating pool of reporters who cover the president.
SPJ strongly supports the White House Correspondents Association, which has long played a leading role in managing the press pool when space is limited. The WHCA condemned the administration’s announcement that it would now call the shots on the press pool as a move that “tears at the independence of a free press in the United States.”
Read SPJ’s full statement here.
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Each year SPJ/LA honors journalists who have achieved a record of accomplishments over the course of their career. The chapter also honors two students studying journalism.
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SPJ/LA Celebrates Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Signing of Senate Bill 98
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Scholarships
"Getting the SPJ/LA scholarship meant a lot to me, financially and mentally. Financially because, $1,500 relieves so much pressure when you're broke and working two jobs to get through college. Mentally, it allowed me to think if I'm good enough for a scholarship from a prestigious press organization, that I'm good enough to be in a newsroom someday."
- Angel Carreras, 2016 recipient of the Bill Farr Memorial Scholarship. He is on a fellowship with KCRW-FM.