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The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) named Joe Skeel as its executive director Monday. Skeel had been interim co-executive director and assumed many day-to-day responsibilities at the organization after Executive [...]

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has installed Kevin Z. Smith as its new president. Smith was officially sworn in as president Saturday at the organization's centennial celebration in Indianapolis. [...]

The Society of Professional Journalists announced Friday that Austin Kiplinger, the late Stanley E. Hubbard, and the late Nelson Poynter had been named Fellows of the Society for extraordinary contributions [...]

Terry Harper, the longtime executive director of the Society of Professional Journalists who died Tuesday after a long battle with brain cancer, had written a final blog post prior to [...]

Terry Harper, the seven-year executive director of the Society of Professional Journalists, died Tuesday at his home in Indianapolis after a long battle with brain cancer, according to SPJ President [...]

An internal dispute at the Society of Professional Journalists over a statement about last week's New York Post 'chimp' cartoon kept the organization from formally condemning the drawing, according to [...]

St. Cloud (Minn.) Times reporter Dave Aeikens has been named president of the national Society of Professional Journalists. Previously, Aeikens served as national secretary-treasurer, Legal Defense Fund chairman, and president-elect [...]

The Society of Professional Journalists has appointed Scott Maben to its national board. Maben, who will again be a regional director for the SPJ, is a deputy city editor for [...]

The Society of Professional Journalists elected its first business weekly editor as its president when Gordon D. 'Mac' McKerral of The Business Journal Serving Greater Tampa Bay was installed during [...]

For the first time in the 90-year history of the Society of Professional Journalists (spj), a woman president is passing the gavel to a woman president. Kyle E. Niederpruem, an [...]

New Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Pres Paul McMasters hopes to prepare the society's membership to fight challenges to journalism and the First Amendment. Speaking at the SPJ's 1993 national convention, McMasters promised to visit society chapters in every state to promote the organization and raise awareness of First Amendment rights and responsibilities.

After less than eight months on the job, the executive director of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) resigned Jan. 14. Dennis Norris is leaving the Greencastle, Ind.-based organization to [...]

Perry resigns as SPJ executive director Society of Professional Journalists executive director Ira Perry is resigning, effective Jan. 30. Perry, a former Houston Post assistant city editor, served during one [...]