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Spot NewsVOLUME 17, NO. 1 SEPTEMBER 2010
A publication of the East Tennessee Chapterof the Society of Professional Journalists
www.etspj.org
Daniel Gilbert, whose series
for the Bristol Herald Courier
won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for
Public Service, will speak to the
East Tennessee Society of
Professional Journalists and
others at the first meeting of the
fall.
ETSPJ is inviting students in
the University of Tennessee
School of Journalism and
Electronic Media, along with
journalism students at Pellissippi
State Community College, to
join the pro chapter for this
Registration is open for the
2010 SPJ National Convention,
Oct. 3-5 at the Planet HollywoodResort and Casino in Las Vegas.
Along with numerousnetworking and professionaldevelopment opportunities, thisyears conference will includewriting clinics and coaches,resume critiques, and tours of theLas Vegas Review-Journal, theVegas Sun and KLAS-TV.
New media pioneer RobCurley will present a SuperSession, Re-imaginingNews,on Tuesday morning, Oct.5. As leader of the online arm ofthe company that owns the LasVegas Sun and Las VegasWeekly, Curley is creating ahyper-local approach tocovering the news. Hear what heand his Web team have learnedfrom their work on newspaper
sites in Kansas and Naples, Fla.,as well as at The WashingtonPost. This session will get youthinking about whats possiblefor a free press in an ever-changing digital democracy.
Learn more about scheduledworkshops, sessions, exhibitorsand events as well as funthings to do while youre stayingin the City of Sin! atwww.spj.org.
program,
in which
Gilbert
will talk
about his
experiences
and
perspectives
in
working
on his
prize-winning series. The stories
revealed how Virginia has failed
to pay tens of millions in natural
gas royalties to thousands of
landowners. His investigative
reporting garnered numerous
national and regional awards.SEE GILBERT, PAGE 3
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After speaking, he will answer
questions.
The meeting will begin at 6:30
p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23, in the
Scripps Convergence Lab on the
fourth floor of the
Communications Building off
Volunteer Drive on the UT
campus. (Free parking is in
Circle Park, in front of the
building.) Refreshments will beprovided by ETSPJ. Gilbert will
speak at 7. The public is invited.
In addition, Al Cross,
executive director of the Institute
for Rural Journalism and
Community Issues at the
University of Kentucky-
Lexington, will tell about
Gilberts financial contribution
to create an annual scholarship
for rural journalists to attend an
Investigative Reporters and
Editors conference similar to one
in which he learned techniques
that enabled him to write the
prize-wining series.
Cross, who was born in
Knoxville and grew up in
Kentucky, is a former nationalpresident of the Society of
Professional Journalists.
Gilbert, 28, got his start in
journalism at the Potomac News
in Woodbridge, Va., where he
covered immigration. A native of
Prince William County, Va., he
graduated from the University of
Chicago in 2005 with a B.A.
degree in international studies.
He worked as a freelance
writer in the U.S. Southwest,
Mexico and Washington, D.C.,
for English and Spanish
language news outlets before
moving to Bristol. Trilingual in
English, Spanish and French,
Gilbert has written for the Dallas
Morning News, the ChristianScience Monitor, Reuters,
Scripps Howard News Service,
The Richmond Times-Dispatch
and The Washington Post Co.s
Spanish language weekly, El
Tiempo Latino.
Elenora E. Edwards
Song and skits poked fun attopics including the gubernatorialand Knox County mayoralcampaigns, the soon-to-be-departed Knox County mayorand staffers, the Tea Party, red-light cameras, taxation of tanningservices, controversies aboutKUBs tree-trimming practices,the 10-year plan to addresshomelessness, and city zoning toallow chickens. Also fodder forparodies were kudzu-eatinggoats, departed football coaches,foibles of UT athletes, mishaps
of a particular state legislator at aUT football game, andTennessees high ranking amongthe nations happiest states.
A silent auction during thereception and an after-dinner liveauction, featuring auctioneerBear Stephenson, preceded the
Patterson tribute and stage show.Georgiana Vines chaired theauction committee.
Profits from Follies ticket salesgo toward building the ETSPJEndowment Fund for future UTscholarships. Auction proceeds goto support current UT andPellissippi State CommunityCollege scholarships and otherchapter activities. These includesponsoring a high school essaycontest, support of theNewspapers in Educationprogram, efforts to bring
transparency to all levels ofgovernment in Tennessee, ourannual contest for professionaljournalists, and monthlyprofessional developmentprograms.
Dorothy Bowles
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