![]() ![]() “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference,” the declaration reads. He read from Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Journalism Professor Ludwig addressed the free speech context of the attacks. Crowds swarmed the French capital’s Place de la République with French flags and signs reading “Je suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”). “It’s not subtle … It’s really complicated to understand caricature,” Buffard said.īuffard showed examples of the international reaction to the attacks, including a video from a Paris rally that attracted over a million people and dozens of world leaders. ![]() ![]() Charlie Hebdo has some Muslims anger because of its cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.īuffard said the magazine has been accused of hate speech, a punishable crime in France, but has avoided conviction because it hasn’t tried to incite violence. He then took hostages in a kosher grocery store, where four hostages and he were killed.įrench Professor Buffard explained Charlie Hebdo is known for its cutting, often offensive political cartoons, which ridicule political, racial and religious groups. The gunmen, Chérif and Saïd Kouachi, were later killed in a police siege.Īnother armed man, Amedy Coulibaly, shot a second police officer. 7, two armed men entered the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, shooting and killing 12 people, including the magazine’s editor, some of its cartoonists and a police officer at the scene. Sacramento State professors Nicole Buffard and Mark Ludwig helped the university SPJ chapter understand the context and implications of the the January Charlie Hebdo attacks. President of the SPJ Chapter at CSU, Sacramento Because going to conferences like the one this weekend or attending a program we set up on campus is what the chapter is all about. I cannot wait to see what they have planned for the chapter’s second year. Plus, you can put on your resume you helped organize and fund your peers to further their education.Īll the above, however, will be the duty of the new chapter officers and programmers. Planning as a group will save everyone money and time. It’s not cheap to fly to Florida, stay several nights and fly back. Why do you need the chapter, then, if you can go to all this on your own? Funds and support. This is your time to learn about issues you have always dreamed to write about and then mingle with professionals who have covered that area for years. As an aspiring journalist, you should be looking forward to it too. I am anxiously awaiting the national SPJ Conference held this September in Florida to do it all over again, but on a much larger and longer scale. And I learned: Freedom of Information Act, controversy and technology reporting, and listening to professional chapter leaders say what they do. ![]() I networked, handing out cards with my contact information and another set for the chapter. What we tell people everyday why they should join and become involved in our campus chapter happened at this weekend’s conference. However the conference was half of Friday and all of Saturday, it was a student journalist’s heaven: how to report on technology, science, vaccine-naysayers, and disease outbreaks, how to fill out a public records request, hearing investigative reporting adventures, and finally, sitting down with those same people for hours at the end of the day with a cool beverage. What separates the SPJ from a newspaper is that it creates a complete (networking through teaching) community for journalists. The student and professional SPJ chapters are no different except that they are run by people of varying expertise. That is where we have the same goals: teach and network. They organize panels on media issues, hold training sessions, and invite journalists together to eat, drink, and talk. All I did was listen and live what we always say the chapter is here to do.īecause at the SPJ Region 11 Conference in San Francisco this past weekend, everyone knows what we do. We meet weekly to say when, how, where, and with whom we’re going to accomplish these tasks for your benefit and for our benefit too.īut this past weekend, I didn’t have to sell the chapter or tell people who we are and why the chapter matters. Why should you join the Society of Professional Journalists and our chapter? Two big reasons: Networking and learning. You’ve probably heard us say it to your classes over and over again. ![]()
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