When:
March 28,
2008
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is holding its Region II 2008 spring conference at Washington and Lee University on March 28-29. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! will give the keynote address on Saturday, March 29, at 3 p.m. in the Stackhouse Theater of Elrod Commons.
Goodman is the award-winning host and executive producer of the Web site Democracy Now! (www.democracynow.org). She has been recognized for her reporting by the Associated Press, United Press International, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Project Censored, among others. She writes a weekly column (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.
Goodman’s keynote talk is free and open to the public.