{"id":17990,"date":"2023-10-31T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/?p=17990"},"modified":"2023-10-31T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:58:20","slug":"leaders-of-spj-and-the-western-carolinian-attend-spj-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/blog\/2023\/10\/31\/leaders-of-spj-and-the-western-carolinian-attend-spj-national-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders of SPJ and the Western Carolinian Attend SPJ National Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Society of Professional Journalists, SPJ, and staff representatives of the Western Carolinian attended the SPJ National Convention, from Sept. 28 to Sept. 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students included Saydie Bean, Liam Bridgemen, Stewart Butler, Cora Haste, Marrah Ste. Marie and Abigail Quinn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The SPJ is a national journalism organization dedicated to encouraging the free-practice of journalism and a high ethical standard. The conference teaches students more about journalism from professionals in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe attended keynote speeches, breakout sessions and panels to learn about sensitive topic reporting, how to acquire documents, writing headlines and interview etiquette,\u201d said Cora Haste, sophomore at Western. \u201cThe conference was also a great networking opportunity. We met students and professors from schools across the nation. We also met working journalists.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The leaders of the campus chapter of SPJ and the Western Carolinian went to gain skills to lead workshops at Western as well as improve the culture of the campus SPJ chapter and campus newsroom with the newly acquired skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA big takeaway from the trip was from a panel session on getting the best interview for a story,\u201d said Haste. \u201cIt inspired me to really dig into each story and person I am interviewing before I sit down for a conversation. I will be taken more seriously if I am informed. I will also be able to write a better story.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The conference not only allowed students to hear from professionals in the field and gain important understanding of skills for the journalism field, it also provided student leaders opportunities to bond.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy favorite part of the trip was attending sessions with people from WCU. Not only did we learn more about journalism, we also learned more about one another,\u201d said Haste.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Society of Professional Journalists, SPJ, and staff representatives of the Western Carolinian attended the SPJ National Convention, from Sept. 28 to Sept. 30. Students included Saydie Bean, Liam Bridgemen, Stewart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3360,"featured_media":17992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17993,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17990\/revisions\/17993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}