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The deadline for submitting entries for the annual Sigma Delta Chi Awards, the national awards contest for journalism sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists, is midnight Thursday, Feb. 9. More details on the awards categories and submissions policies are available at the SDX website. For other questions, contact Lauren Rochester at lrochester@spj.org, or call 317-927-8000, ext. 210.
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Carmine’s Steak House is the new home for SPJ’s monthly luncheons.
The year 2011 was packed with drama and intrigue, but it had its lighter moments, too, and many of them came courtesy of cartoonists R.J. Matson and Dan Martin of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Glenn McCoy of the Belleville News Democrat.
For its January luncheon meeting, the St. Louis chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists invites you to take a look back at 2011 through the art, talent and witty commentary of these three splendid journalists. Matson, Martin and McCoy will be on hand to narrate a slide show featuring their works and discuss with the luncheon audience what inspired their finest creations.
SPJ’s second annual cartoon year in review and lunch is set for noon Wednesday, Jan. 25, at our new meeting place: Carmine’s Steak House, 20 S. Fourth Street, a block south of the Old Courthouse, in downtown St. Louis. The cost is $12 for SPJ members and $15 for others, which includes coffee and tip. (SPJ can accept only cash and checks.)
Parking is free along the side of the building and in Carmine’s underground garage.
As a bonus, we’ll be raffling off a couple of works by the cartoonists at the luncheon. And we’ll have our sale of new and used books to browse afterward.
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Nominations are being accepted through Saturday by the St. Louis Newspaper Guild for the annual Terry Hughes Award.
The award was established in the name of Hughes, a Post-Dispatch columnist. Her writing was clear, witty and descriptive, with a flair for portraying society’s underdogs. Some of her columns chronicled the bouts with cancer that she and others faced. One column was credited with helping persuade the Missouri Legislature to approve a bill forcing insurers to pay for mammograms.
Hughes was 36 when she died of breast cancer on July 22, 1991.
One of the many readers who wrote to the newspaper after her death described Hughes’ work this way: “Her columns were full of real life stories that touched us all and even changed our way of thinking or even our lives.”
Any journalist in the metropolitan St. Louis area who has written for a daily or weekly newspaper or magazine, or an online publication, is eligible. Single articles of extraordinary merit will be considered but preference will be given to entries of between three and 10 articles that display the writer’s range of talent. All articles must have been published in 2011.
There are no formal applications. Anyone may submit a nomination by sending copies of articles to:
The Terry Hughes Award Committee
St. Louis Newspaper Guild
1015 Locust Street
Suite 735
St. Louis, MO 63101
Or they can email submissions to St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporters Elizabethe Holland, at eholland@post-dispatch.com, or Doug Moore, at dmoore@post-dispatch.com.
Again, the deadline for submitting applications is this Saturday, Jan. 7. The award will be presented at the Newspaper Guild’s annual dinner on Jan. 27.
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Join us for for drinks, snacks and holiday cheer as the St. Louis Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists holds its annual “season’s greeting” from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, at the International Tap House, 1711 South Ninth Street in Soulard, a half block south of the Soulard Farmers Market. It’s a chance for us to thank our current membership for its support and to welcome new members into the SPJ fold. The chapter’s board will provide the snacks; you bring the stimulating conversation. Friends and family are welcome. And happy holidays from SPJ!
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