Society of Professional Journalists

Co-Presidents: Amanda Betts and Chelsey Orlikowski
Adviser: Professor Mike Cowling

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) is the organization based around news-editorial students. The Society of Professional Journalists sponsors this club, and all student members are recognized as members of SPJ. Many of the SPJ student members are involved with the Advance-Titan student newspaper. SPJ attends the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Convention, sponsors speakers and events on campus and administers the Hearst Writing Competition at UW Oshkosh.

Charles Plueddeman, a free-lance writer and editor who graduated with a
journalism degree from UW-Oshkosh in 1982, spoke to members of the student chapter
of the Society of Professional Journalists in March 2009. At the session were,
from left, Josh O'Bright, Pat Goetz, Nick Nugent, Louis Garcia, Mabel Plueddeman,
Charles Plueddeman, Shayla Brooks, Allison Reineck, Amanda Munger, Steve Bailey,
Amanda Betts (front), Chelsey Orlikowski, and Mike Cowling, SPJ chapter adviser.

SPJ chapter members Josh O’Bright, Allison Reineck and Chelsey Orlikowski
in the press box at Lambeau Field. They attended the annual Wisconsin
Newspaper Association Convention on Jan. 29-30, 2009, in Green Bay.