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‪We’re proud to share the news that our special program the Centre County Report in Israel has won first place in the National SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards as Best TV News Magazine! It also won first place in that category in this year’s Region One SPJ Awards. https://commmedia.psu.edu/special-coverage/story/israel/centre-county-report-in-israel‬

Centre County Report in Israel A team of student journalists from Penn State's Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications traveled to Israel this Spring to report on news issues and interesting stories there.

Penn State SPJ members: Here’s some info on the 2019 SPJ Region One conference. It’ll be April 5-6 at Northeastern Univ. in Boston. We’ll start planning soon for our trip to this event.

2019 Region 1 Conference The New England PRO Chapter is pleased to be hosting the 2019 regional conference in Boston! Our theme? “Democracy Runs on Journalism”! The conference is scheduled to run from Friday, A…

Congrats to our newly-elected Penn State SPJ officers! Ava Rash is our new chapter President and Lilah Cook is our new VP for the coming year.

SPJ MEETING ALERT! Please join us for our Penn State SPJ chapter meeting, Wednesday Oct. 17 at 6pm in the CCR TV studio at Innovation Park. We'll plan our upcoming events for the year and eat free pizza! Everyone is welcome to attend.

SPJ members: join us for dinner this Wednesday night at 6:30pm at the Corner Room. See you there!

FALL MEETING: Our first meeting of the Fall is set for this Wednesday Sept. 20 at 6:00pm. Please join us for pizza at the Innovation Park Centre County Report TV studio. SPJ members and prospective members are welcome! We'll talk about poss. events this year, including a trip to Washington DC (including a possible White House visit) and the SPJ regional conference.

MEMBERS: Registration is now open for the SPJ regional conference in NYC. If you've RSVP'd for our trip with Steve, go ahead and register for the conference here: http://www.spjr1c.org/tickets/

Tickets « SPJ Region 1 Conference 2017 $40: students (members of SPJ. Member # required)$65: professionals (members of SPJ. Member # required)$70: professionals (not SPJ members)

We're not very good at bowling but we had a lot of fun at tonight's Penn State SPJ Fall get-together!

Members... join us for our Fall SPJ social event!

​​​Penn State SPJ Social Event – Bowling Night
Monday Nov. 5 - 7:00pm
Northland Bowl
1521 Martin St, State College, PA 16803

RSVP by Nov. 18 to: [email protected]

Penn State's SPJ chapter is proud to have two of our members representing us at the SPJ national "Excellence in Journalism" conference in New Orleans this week. And we'd like to congratulate our new officers for this year: President Sierra Phillips, VP LeAnna Urenko and Secretary Ava Rash.

Penn State College of Communications students, join us for our first SPJ meeting of the Fall! Wednesday Sep. 14 at 6:00pm in the Centre County Report TV studio. We'll have free pizza too! Members and new prospective members are welcome!