The Cleveland Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will present a lunch program featuring "Entrepreneurial Journalism in the Digital Age" at noon Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Doubletree Inn, 1111 Lakeside Ave., Cleveland.
Lunch is $20 for members and students, and $25 for non-members. Parking is free in the hotel garage. For reservations, contact Tom Moore at cleveland@spj.org or 440-454-3282 by 2 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17. Come as early as 11:45 a.m. Nov. 19 to network. Time will be provided for questions and answers; the program ends at 1:30 p.m.
Leading the program will be Chris Seper, a journalist who founded MedCityNews.com, a website and news service focusing on business, innovation and influence in health care. Seper will be joined by Steve FitzGerald, who built and operates Lakewoodbuzz.com, a news, events and social medium in Lakewood, Ohio.
Seper previously worked as the online medical editor at The Plain Dealer, where he also served as an assistant metro editor and an award-winning reporter on the technology beat. FitzGerald has a background in public relations, municipal public information and union publications. He also created NonprofitNewswire.com, a vertical search engine for finding nonprofit news.
Seper and Fitzgerald will talk about their paths launching and running businesses related to journalism, including support networks of mentors, funding groups and other successful entrepreneurs. Tony Kozlowski, an SPJ Cleveland Pro board member, organized the program.
SPJ Cleveland Pro has a 50-year history of supporting professional development for journalists, open government and open public records in Cleveland, Ohio. Its website is at www.spj.org/cleveland. The chapter serves journalists in northern Ohio from Toledo to Ashtabula and Akron. The chapter is part of the national Society of Professional Journalists trade group, the largest member-oriented journalism group in the United States. PR Newswire is the official news dissemination source for SPJ Cleveland Pro.
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