SPJ Cleveland Pro Chapter Eyes Entrepreneurial Journalism in the Digital Age

CLEVELAND, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- 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.

SOURCE Society of Professional Journalists

Tom Moore of SPJ, +1-440-454-3282, cleveland@spj.org