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Advocacy in Action at Press Freedom Summit Hosted by SPJ/LA Chapter
Embrace unconventional allies. Mount an all-fronts attack on harmful policies– from local to regional to national. Collaborate in and out of traditional channels. Flood the zone with journalism advocacy.
These are just a few of the tactics that surfaced at the Coming Together, Fighting Back: Press Freedom Summit, organized by the SPJ Los Angeles chapter on March 14 with the support of a grant from the SPJ Foundation.
The day-long gathering brought together a dedicated cohort of journalists, attorneys and other press freedom advocates to share learnings and challenges and to surface new opportunities for action, and to begin work on a new Press Freedom Playbook.
Caroline Hendrie, Frank LoMonte, Ginny La Roe and Adam Rose participate in the keynote speech at SPJ/LA’s Press Freedom: Coming Together, Fighting Back summit on March 14, 2026. (Photo by Natalie Bislamyan)
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"Getting the SPJ/LA scholarship meant a lot to me, financially and mentally. Financially because, $1,500 relieves so much pressure when you're broke and working two jobs to get through college. Mentally, it allowed me to think if I'm good enough for a scholarship from a prestigious press organization, that I'm good enough to be in a newsroom someday."
- Angel Carreras, 2016 recipient of the Bill Farr Memorial Scholarship. He is on a fellowship with KCRW-FM.