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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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