Mon., July 2 at 1 p.m. PST

Join Studio SPJ producer Holly Fisher as she talks with Sarah Stuteville, of The Common Language Project and a member of the Western Washington Pro chapter, who won a Sigma Delta Chi Award in magazine writing for “The Return: One Marine’s story of a mission accomplished, but not really over,” which was published in Pacific Northwest Magazine. The SDX Awards Banquet will be July 20, 2012, in Washington, D.C. Read Stuteville’s story at http://www.spjvideo.org/sdx/sdx11/mag-writing-r.pdf. Call in during the show at 347-857-2441.

Listen: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/spj/2012/07/02/studio-spj-talking-with-sdx-winner-sarah-stuteville

FREE Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) workshop open to the public, journalists, students, professors — everyone, this Friday, June 29 at Western Washington University.

SPJ member David Cuillier leads this FOIA workshop at WWU, Academic West Building, Room 204, from 12:30p-5p. This is Cuillier’s Access Across America workshop where he provides guidelines and strategies on conducting FOI records requests and writing meaningful stories based on this information. Great tools and practical advice for journalists and anyone interested in what their government is up to and wants to keep officials accountable.

Cuillier, an associate professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Arizona, also happens to be a Bellingham native and WWU grad (class of 1990)!

More info here: http://blogs.spjnetwork.org/aaa/about

Contact SPJ member Frank Garred for more information or to register. Please spread the word to SPJ members and non-members.

The event is sponsored by the SPJ, Society of Professional Journalists.