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SFBJA - September monthly meeting
September 13, 2006
Greetings, SFBJA members and friends!
It's meeting time again: This Saturday we return to our regular meeting schedule after the summer break. I'm looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible Saturday at our regular meeting place at Miami Dade College North. The pool party/meeting at Carol's house in July was enjoyable as ever, and it was great seeing many of you at the NABJ convention in Indianapolis.
Saturday we're scheduled to elect a new treasurer to replace Audra Burch, who resigned. We'll be discussing plans for our next media workshop. There will a discussion on advocacy issues. And nominations for the November elections will open.
All elected offices will be up for grabs: president, vice president/print, vice president/broadcast, secretary, treasurer and parliamentarian. The other board positions will be appointed by the new president. Please note that the president, both VPs and treasurer are not allowed to succeed themselves.
The person elected treasurer on Saturday, however, will be eligible to be re-elected in November because that person will be filling Audra's unexpired term. I've attached sections of the bylaws that speak to the election process.
Thank you very much. See you Saturday!
Terence Shepherd
President
South Florida Black Journalists Association
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SFBJA sponsors journalism workshop for high school students
September 09, 2006
South Florida Black Journalists Association was a sponsor for this year's high school workshop for minority journalism students at the University of Miami. The workshop ran July 5-15 at UM's School of Communication. "The 18 participants, including six black students, delved into the historical, complicated and emotional debate of immigration reform and wrote a series of stories that educated us all," said Tsitsi D. Wakhisi, program director and SFBJA member.
SFBJA members Jacqueline Charles and April Robinson were associate directors of the workshop. Other SFBJA members assisted students with the workshop: Peter Bailey, William McGee, Jillian McKoy, Andrea Robinson, Terence Shepherd, Darran Simon, Nicole White and John Yearwood.
