SMTA Offers New Membership Structure
SMTA President Martin Anselm and Membership Vice President Rob Boguski outline the SMTA’s new vision and structure for membership. In the plans they share here, Anselm and Boguski paint a vision of a dramatically changed and improved membership structure, adding value for each membership level and encouraging increased corporate and personal engagement in SMTA’s programs.
Nolan Johnson: Martin, start us off with a quick introduction and then we’ll ask Rob the same question.
Martin Anselm: I am the current president of the SMTA. I was elected last year, and I am in the middle of my first term. I was on the board of directors for six years and have been involved with the SMTA on the executive level for quite a while. Prior to that, I was very involved at the chapter level for the Empire chapter here in Western/Upstate New York. I am currently an associate professor at the R
Five lost lives
For the final installment of
The Kicker for 2020, CJR tells the story of five journalists lost this year to covid-19, as told by the colleagues who loved them.
Charles Wenzelberg, chief photographer for the
New York Post, memorializes Anthony Causi, forty-eight, a longtime photographer for the
Post.
Barbara Ortutay, an AP technology reporter, remembers Anick Jesdanun, fifty-one, deputy technology editor for the AP.
Helen Fallon, president of the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania and a journalism professor emerita at Point Park University, memorializes Ginny Frizzy, sixty-six, a freelance writer and a leader in the region’s journalism organizations.