November 2010 Spot News

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Spot NewsVOLUME 17, NO. 3 NOVEMBER 2010

A publication of the East Tennessee Chapterof the Society of Professional Journalists

http://etspj.org

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Social media its a buzzwordtodays journalists hear daily. Butwhen it comes to journalisticethics, the Web is still the WildWest in many ways.

How do reporters and editorsmake use of the dizzying array of social media tools and programs,and still retain the ethical standardsthat have long been a cornerstoneof the profession? How much of what we do in print applies to thesenewer, faster platforms.

Find out where some newsroomsare drawing the lines when ETSPJsponsors a training program onsocial media and ethics at 5 p.m.Thursday, Nov. 18, at the KnoxvilleNews Sentinel . The free training isopen to all and will include speak-ers and a question-answer session.Light refreshments will be served.

Leading the training will beJames Pilcher, business reporter forthe Cincinnati Enquirer , and Jack Greiner, fulltime attorney for theCincinnati/Kentucky Enquirer anda partner at the Cincinnati firmGraydon Head. Theyll focus onhow journalists can still applytraditional ethical standards to

social media platforms.There is a national conversation

taking place about the ethics of social media and how journalistsuse these tools in their reporting,said Amanda Womac, ETSPJpresident-elect. We want to help

journalists and other individualsusing social media develop theseplatforms while still keeping theSPJ Code of Ethics at the core of their reporting.

James Pilcher is a businessprojects reporter for the Cincinnati

Enquirer and has been a practicing journalist for the past 20 years. Hereturned to journalism and the

Enquirer in 2008 after a two-yearstint in product development for alocal telecommunications company.

A long-time advocate for the useof technology in the newsroom,James has won numerous awards,

including the best business reporterin the state of Ohio in 2006 andseveral national awards for hiscoverage of the Brent SpenceBridge. He currently covers theeconomy, the aviation/airlineindustry and personal technologyfor the Enquirer, while also tack-ling large in-depth projects aboutbusiness and the Cincinnati area.He is known as one of the nationspremier aviation reporters.

Jack Greiner practices in theareas of commercial litigation andFirst Amendment law. He hasconsiderable practice experience incourts throughout the state, as wellas federal courts. His work hasincluded litigation of disputes overa variety of contracts, First Amend-ment issues, non-competitioncovenants and intellectual propertydisputes. He is especially proud of his work on public records cases.He has handled dozens of cases andhelped establish a very favorablebody of law requiring that recordsbe available to the public. Jackspractice has also included libel andinsurance defense litigation. Jack also has an extensive backgroundin creditors rights and collectionlitigation.


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Facebook and privacy: a primer Ali James, Head Mom for

knoxmoms.com, recently gave KNS Media Group employees a mini-session on using Facebook privacysettings. She shares some tips.

The problem with Facebook istrying to find balance! Facebook will only allow you to have oneaccount to manage your businessand personal lives. There are manyaspects of our lives and groups of people we interact with and theeasiest way to handle facebook is tokeep them all separate.

The first step to managing a

Facebook account is to make friendlists - at least three, but no morethan five. You can go about itseveral ways. I personally havethree lists. Once you have your listsestablished, your Facebook experi-ence will change forever.

List 1 Family and FriendsMore specifically, family I like,

and friends who are friends becauseI want them to be friends. These are

people I want to talk to more than Ido and use Facebook as a way tokeep them up to date with my life.

List 2 LimitedThese are people you work with

and/or people you have for net-working. You want them on yourFacebook, but you dont want themto know everything youre doing onFacebook. You restrict their accessto your photos, wall, etc.

List 3 The Have-To-AddsThis is where I put people I keep

on Facebook for interactive games,people I dont want to be rude to byignoring their friend requests, ormy crazy aunt who insisted onposting random idiotic things onmy wall. This will also be thegroup you will demote people tofrom other groups when they

misbehave. This group is theanswer for those people who findthemselves unable to ignorerequests or unfriend people.

From the home page, click onFriends. This loads your friendpage, and there will be a tab to theleft of your requests that saysCreate A List. This will pull up abox with your entire friend list. Thefield in the top lefthand corner iswhere you type what you will callthe list. It is easier to start withpeople you most want to restrict.

When you have selected everyone

you want in that list, click onCreate List and start making yoursecond and third lists.

After you have your lists created,they will be listed below Friendswhen you click on it. If you click on a list, your news feed will showonly those people on the list. Onceyou click on a list, a box willappear where Create A List usedto be that now allows you to edit. If

you click on this, it will pull upyour entire friends list, and every-one in that list will be highlighted.Be careful to make sure people areonly on one list, because Facebook will allow them in more than one.

Now adjusting the privacy set-tings gets much easier. Click onAccount on the upper righthandcorner of the screen, then on Pri-vacy Settings, then on CustomizeSettings at the bottom of the boxon the privacy home page.

This is where a lot of people getconfused. There are two ways towork the customizing of each field.You have to click each Edit taband click Customize, which willopen a new box. You can list thepeople you want to see information,or the people you dont want to see

each field. It looks like it wants youto list names, but this is where youneed to put in your list titles,automatically including or exclud-ing all the people in the lists. Dothis for every field.

When updating your status, youcan adjust who can view it everytime you post. There is a lock symbol with a drop menu that letsyou control which list can see it.

Applications and WebsitesClick on Edit Your Settings

under Applications and Websitesfrom the main Privacy page to

access these fields.Game and Application Activity:Controls what apps can post toyour wall.

Info Accessible Through YourFriends: Your friends can use anapp or game, and because yourefriends, your information can beshared through them! Click onEdit Settings to restrict what canbe obtained through them.

Instant Personalization: Thereare some sites that will recognizeyou and make your presenceknown. You can shut that off here.

Public Search: If someonesearches for you in a public searchengine, your Facebook profile canbe brought up. You can see herewhat your Facebook summary willlook like on a search engine, andenable it if you wish to.

BlockingFrom the Privacy page, click on

Edit Your Lists for blockingpeople and applications.

Here you can block people,applications, application invitesand events. This is also where youwould need to go to unblock something if you decide you wantto play again.


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Whether youve been naughty ornice this year, you dont want tomiss ETSPJs annual holiday party.Its set for Tuesday, Nov. 30, in theclubhouse of Cherokee Bluff

Condos, 1837 Cherokee Bluff Drive in South Knoxville (off Alcoa Highway near University of Tennessee Medical Center).

Well start the fun at 6:30 p.m.,but come anytime. Well keep theparty going until at least 9.

The meal is potluck, so bringsomething to share. The chapterwill provide a main (meat) dish. If youre particular about beverages,bring what you like.

Well continue our tradition of playing Dirty Santa, so if you

Party time! Come for food, fun and outrageous gifts

want to play, bring a wrapped giftworth about $10 -- either a gaggift or a good one. Participantswill get steal gifts from eachother. If you dont want to play,though, you dont have to -- yourewelcome to come just to eat, talk

and watch the fun.Were also planning to have an

area where people can sit andwatch the DVD of the 2010 FrontPage Follies show, which wellplay on a loop (in case you getdistracted by socializing!).

Please let party chairmanGeorgiana Vines know no later thanNov. 27 what dish you plan tobring, so that the committee can fillin if necessary. Georgiana will alsoneeds to know the names all guests(so she can put you on the listand the gatekeeper will let you in).Contact Georgiana at 865-335-0010 or .

See you there, with (jingle) bellson!

[email protected]

Its that time of year again timefor local journalists and media

organizations to pick out their verybest work to enter in ETSPJsGolden Press Card Awards.

Over the next couple of weeks,well be refining our contest-specific website, http:// goldenpresscard.wordpress.com/, toadd information about this yearscontest.

Like last year, well have avariety of categories for print,television, radio and new media.There will also be options for part-time or freelance writers to entertheir work

Also like last year, well acceptawards both online and through themail though were switching to adifferent form this year to accom-modate those of you who wanted tosubmit your entries online last year

but had trouble with the Acrobatformat.

This years contest will be judgedby members of the Pittsburgh prochapter of SPJ (in return, ourchapter members will judge severalcategories for Pittsburghs GoldenQuill awards, so please let us knowif youre interested in helping outwith judging).

Deadline for Golden Press Cardentries will be March 1. Fee perentry is $20, but current SPJ mem-bers can have one free entry.

Winners will be announced at ourawards banquet at 7 p.m. Friday,April 29, at the L&N Station. Theevent will include a buffet dinnerand cash bar.

For information about this yearscontest, call Kristi Nelson at 865-342-6434, or send e-mail [email protected].

Golden Press Card deadlines, fees setDating back to 1932, the Sigma

Delta Chi Awards honor profes-sional journalism excellence in allmedia: print, art/graphics, radio,television, online, newsletters andresearch. Continuing this year arecategories for non-daily publica-tions and specialty news websites,among others. And the streamlinedonline submission process will saveSPJ members time and money.

All work must have been pub-lished or broadcast in 2010. Win-ners will be honored at the Excel-lence in Journalism 2011 confer-ence Sept. 25-28 in New Orleans.

See all the categories, rules andinformation on the submissionprocess at the SDX Awards page,.

Entry deadline is Feb. 9, 2011.For questions, contact Lauren

Rochester, 317-927-8000, Ext. 210,or [email protected].

2010 SDX Awards open

www.spj.org/a-sdx.asp


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Defending right to offend is part of the jobEvery generation, I think, grows

up hearing certain phrases over andover. Some are strictly humorous(I dont know nothin bout ma-chinery), and others are more

serious (My country, right orwrong).

One of the latter that I have heardoff and on is I disapprove of whatyou say, but I will defend to thedeath your right to say it.

This phrase was reportedlycoined by author Evelyn BeatriceHall to describe the attitude of theFrench Enlightenment-era authorVoltaire toward a book that wascontroversial at the time.

Variations on the quote appearedon signs at last months Rally toRestore Sanity and/or Fear, butoutside of that, I rarely hear thedefend quotation used now.Maybe its happenstance. Or maybeits because in recent years we havebeen beset with political correct-ness and the fear of upsetting

someone.

From the Presidents

Pen

There are lotsof things Illcall them coarse that I dontparticularly like

hearing peoplesay. I dont wantto hear anyonelibeled or slan-dered, and Idont think people shoulduse demeaningterms to refer to people they justdont like, people of other races,other religions, other colors and soforth. In fact, I dont see why wecant all just get along. Why peoplecant live and let live (anotherphrase I grew up hearing) takecare of their own business and letothers take care of theirs.

For journalists, though, its moreclear-cut: Journalists mustnt beafraid of writing the truth evenwhen the odds are that it will upset

some people. We must write care-

fully and candidly. Write the facts,you know, no matter what the flack from whatever source, governmentor fellow citizens. Sometimes ittakes courage; it takes standing up

for what we believe. But ourprofession isnt worth much, andwe are not worthy of it, if we arentwilling to do that.

As you probably know, freespeech and free press are guaran-teed in the Bill of Rights in ourconstitution, in the second phraseof the First Amendment. It wasJames Madison who wrote the Billof Rights, who had opposed theadopting of a constitution without adeclaration of rights.

The First Amendment doesnt setout that no one must be offendedby what is spoken or written. Itguarantees that we can expressourselves freely. I hope as journal-ists we are willing to exercise ourright and stand up for others as theyexercise theirs.

-- Elenora Edwards

Several East Tennessee journalists bring home Green EyeshadesETSPJ members were

among winners in the60th Annual GreenEyeshade Awards, a

journalism contest thatrecognizes excellence innews media in 11 South-

ern states. Winners wereannounced in September.Sally Kestin, Peter

Franceschina, and JohnMaines were awardedBest of Show for theirthree-part investigativeseries, Trust Betrayed.It chronicles a six-monthinvestigation into Floridaday-care centers and

nursing homes thatuncovered numerousworkers with criminalrecords, including rape,child abuse and murder.

The competition drewmore than 500 entries

from media outlets inAlabama, Arkansas,Florida, Georgia, Ken-tucky, Louisiana, Missis-sippi, North Carolina,South Carolina, Tennes-see and West Virginia.

Started by the AtlantaProfessional Chapter of SPJ, the Green EyeshadeAwards are now adminis-

tered by regional direc-tors.

East Tennessee winnerswere:

DAILY DIVISION PRINT

Humorous Commen-

tary, 1st Place: Columnsby Sam Venable, NewsSentinel, Knoxville

Courts and the LawReporting, 3rd Place:Warrant in Question, byJamie Satterfield, NewsSentinel

Editorial Cartoon, 1stPlace: Portfolio by ClayBennett, Chattanooga

Times Free PressSpecialized Reporting,

1st Place: Fly AshSpill, by Scott Barker,News Sentinel

ONLINE DIVISIONBest Multimedia, 1st

Place: Wasted: People,Money, Lives, by Mark Boxley, The Daily Times,Maryville

Best Multimedia, 3rdPlace: Death onChipman Street, by ErinChapin, Jigsha Desai,Talid Magdy and LaurenSpuhler, News Sentinel,Knoxville


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Nov. 30: ETSPJHoliday

Party, 7 p.m.,Cherokee Bluff

Clubhouse.Potluck and gaggift exchange.

March 25-26:Region 12

Conference,Nashville

Feb. 28:Deadline forGolden Press

Cardentries

April 1: Journalism Law

School

April 29:Golden PressCard Awards

banquet,L&N Station

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ProfessionalJournalists

COMING UP

Principal players at thenews conference at which2009-10 UT Football

Coach Lane Kiffin an-nounced his resignationreflected on the events atan Oct. 26 ETSPJ pro-gram.

Anger among UTpersonnel and news mediarepresentatives haddwindled to the philo-sophical in the monthssince that Jan. 12 event,though there were indica-tions of discomfort withKiffin himself.

Bud Ford, associateathletic director/commu-nications, said he mademistakes that night,mistakes that to that dayhis wife had not let himforget.

He said he should nothave insisted on followingKiffins request that nolive coverage be allowed.Ford said he had notdeveloped a relationshipwith Kiffin the way hehad with other coaches,and that if he had, hewould have handled thesituation differently.

Ford said he was leav-ing church when he wascalled and told the newsconference would begin in15 minutes.

When Ford was explain-ing what the groundrules were for the confer-ence, WBIR-TV NewsDirector Bill Shory

Media panelists detail night ofKiffins resignation, discuss access

objected, and othersreacted angrily, wantingfair coverage for eachnews organization.

Because of Shorysstance for total access, hewas selected for a na-tional SPJ Ethics inJournalism Award, whichhe received Oct. 5 in LasVegas. He was nominatedby News Sentinel EditorJack McElroy.

Shory was unable toattend the ETSPJ panelbecause of predictedsevere weather.

Jim Wogan, sportseditor for WATE-TV,took a seat on the panel,since he was present onJan. 12. He said hisconcern was that othernews outlets not coverthe news conference livebecause he was notprepared to do so, havingbeen told earlier that itwould not be allowed.

Brent Hubbs of Volquest.com, who saidhe was playing Chutesand Ladders with hischildren when he learned

about the conference, saidhe was not so muchconcerned with theconference itself as withwhat peoples reactionswould be.

Phil Kaplan, NewsSentinel sports editor,said the paper learned of the resignation fromESPN. Staff searched thearchives for photos to gowith a variety of stories.

John Adams, who wasvacationing in Florida,was asked to write acolumn. Kiffins an-nouncement meantremaking the paper, sinceeverything else in itdidnt matter, Kaplansaid.

Jimmy Stanton, associ-ate athletic director/ communications, whowas new on the job at thetime, also served on thepanel.

WATE-TV investigativereporter Don Dare moder-ated the panel, held at theUniversity of Tennessee.

-- Elenora Edwards

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2406 Belt RoadKnoxville, TN 37920

ETSPJ BOARD

President:Elenora E. Edwards

President-Elect:Amanda Womac

Secretary:Megan Venable Smith

Treasurer:Dorothy Bowles

Board members:Patrick BeesonMark Boxley

Kristi Nelson BumpusDon Dare

Erin DonovanMatt Shafer Powell

Georgiana Vines

Contact us:[email protected]@knoxnews.com

Dont be an April Fool! Mark your calendars now for ETSPJsversion of a law school for

journalists.Were calling our all-day

training Justice, Media and thePeoples Right to Know: Inher-ent Tensions and PracticalImplications in a Free Society.

Its set for 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.Friday, April 1, 2011, at theHoward Baker Center for PublicPolicy on the UT campus inKnoxville.

The program is free, and lunchis included. Look for moredetails in the December SpotNews and on our website.

Journalists law school on docket for 2011

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