Chris R. Vaccaro

The Press Club of Long Island hosted the SPJ Region 1 Conference at Stony Brook University on March 23-24.

More than 50 guest speakers presented lectures about journalism and communications. Columnist Ellis Henican delivered the keynote address during the conference.

As a member of PCLI, I was on the Conference Committee and assisted as a Student Advisor for the #R1C2012 Working Press student-run news group.

I am attending SPJ’s Excellence in Journalism conference in New Orleans this year and blogging about the experience on PCLI.org.

To follow along, click here.

Check back at the end of the week for a link to photos from New Orleans and the conference.

Chris Vaccaro appears on this year’s PCLI Award Finalists list for the second straight year.

Among the articles that made the finalist list are:

• Blog: Inside the Arrows Chris R. Vaccaro Sachem Patch
• Howard Stern’s Sal Governale Fond of His Days… Chris R. Vaccaro Sachem Patch
• Holbrook’s Tragic Train Crash Remembered Chris R. Vaccaro Sachem Patch
• Jumbo Elliott is Larger Than Life Chris R. Vaccaro Sachem Patch

He is also on the proposed board of officers list for the organization, associated with the Society of Professional Journalists, as corresponding secretary.

Vaccaro and other finalists will find out June 9 how they placed at the awards dinner.