Chicago Reader
At their annual convention last week, members of the SPJ ethics committee debated a proposed alliance between SPJ and Market Wire, which
calls itself "a full-service distributor of company press releases and financial news announcement." Market Wire would pay SPJ about $75,000 a year to deliver SPJ speakers who will educate its clients about what journalists want and need. "In a perfect world I'd have none of this," SPJ president
Christine Tatum tells
Michael Miner. "In a perfect world the newspaper organizations would be coughing this up." But they’re not.
