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  • DePaul Wins First SPJ National Mark of Excellence Award

    The Red Line Project’s Election 2012 coverage won the SPJ National Mark of Excellence award for best online news reporting on May 1. It was DePaul University’s first national SPJ MOE award. Twenty-five graduate and undergraduate students worked on the project, which included coverage of President Obama’s acceptance speech, key congressional races, voting trends, maps, Read more

  • DePaul Students Win 16 SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards

    DePaul University College of Communication journalism students won 16 SPJ Region 5 Mark of Excellence Awards Saturday at a ceremony in St. Louis. Region 5 covers schools in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. First-place finishers advance to the national Mark of Excellence competition and will compete against winners from 11 other regions. Good Day DePaul 1st Read more

  • SPJ DePaul Announces 2013-14 Executive Board

    SPJ DePaul announced its new executive board members on April 13. The new board takes control immediately and will oversee events, programs and day-to-day operations of the chapter. The board members: President: Brianna Kelly Vice President: Jakub Rudnik Secretary: Rima Mandwee Events/Programming Coordinator: Rae Kirby Membership/PR Coordinator: Tyler Carter Read more

  • SPJ DePaul Video: Twitter Tips from Mark Luckie

    Mark Luckie, manager of news and journalism at Twitter, shares tips for journalists who use the social media tool. The video was produced by SPJ DePaul’s Ryann Rumbaugh. Read more

  • SPJ DePaul Brings Twitter Techniques to Gordon Tech

    SPJ DePaul executive board members visited Gordon Tech High School on Jan. 25 to teach students more beneficial ways to use Twitter. The chapter taught the 15 students in the program how to use their accounts to connect with publications, news organizations, colleges and universities. Chapter members shared much of the insight they learned from Read more

  • Mark Luckie Teaches Twitter Reporting Tools to Sun-Times, SPJ DePaul

    Video streaming by Ustream Journalists can’t use Twitter as a promotional “one-way street” but rather to engage with followers and develop sourcing as part of well-rounded reporting and editing, said Mark Luckie, manager of news and journalism for Twitter. Luckie spoke Jan. 23 to Chicago Sun-Times staff and DePaul University journalism students and faculty as Read more