@wearesfj
We are the storytellers. The Society for Features Journalism promotes, supports and celebrates the craft of storytelling in lifestyle and culture journalism. Find us at featuresjournalism.org.
Business journalists: McGraw Center at CUNY's Newark Graduate School of Journalism offers $15K grants for high-impact stories that 'Follow the Money’ on key econ issues: inequality, workplace, climate, health, corp accountability & more. Apply by 4/13/26: bit.ly/McGrawFellows
Amazing! Thank you for including our contest! 🫶
'The Godfather,' 'M*A*S*H,' and 'Tender Mercies' star Robert Duvall passed away at home at age 95, "surrounded by love and comfort"
"Eighty percent of Americans said voters have a responsibility to keep up with the news, but just 8% said they had a responsibility to pay for it." www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...
The replay for our panel discussion with @startribune.com feature writers is now available!
The post includes the video and links to the stories shared.
Huge thanks to Sue Campbell, Allie Shah, Reid Forgrave, Laura Yuen and Sharyn Jackson for their time 🙏
www.featuresjournalism.org/blog/2026/2/...
Reminder! This is happening tomorrow!
Join us for this for free webinar on Thursday, Feb. 12, to hear how @startribune.com feature writers are bringing the features lens to covering ICE activities in Minneapolis.
Click on the link to register!
#journalism
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Thank you! We’re working on it! 🙂
I'm really looking forward to hearing from these stellar features journalists from The Minnesota @startribune.com at this Society for Features Journalism @wearesfj.bsky.social virtual event on Thursday, Feb. 12. Please join us if you can!
www.featuresjournalism.org/blog/2026/2/...
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We're up to 100 followers! Thank you! 💗
It's a great time to announce our 2026 Excellence-in-Features contest is open for submissions! 20 categories and 3 divisions. Freelancers welcome!
Enter by March 2 to save $10 on the entry fee.
#journalism
www.featuresjournalism.org/blog/2026/1/...
Photo from Society for Features Journalism National Conference 2025 of three panelists on the stage. On a large screen behind them is the session title slide: ALL WORK & SOME GLITZ: Diving into Entertainment Journalism Truths. MESFIN FEKADU Senior music editor & writer JONATHAN LANDRUM JR. The Associated Press MALCOLM VENABLE Shondaland
The stories from this panel!
Between Mesfin Fekadu (our new SFJ president btw), Jonathan Landrum Jr., and Malcolm Venable — we were all one degree away from nearly every celebrity you can think of. They shared how they build trust with PR teams & how they ask the tough questions. #sfj2025
All the planning and emails and calls are now officially a conference!!
And it’s amazing! #sfj2025
Scene from welcome reception at SFJ 2025 at Thunderbird Pub at ASU.
Scene from Eli Saslow’s keynote at SFJ 2025.
It’s hard to put into words what it feels like to gather as features journalists and talk about reporting and writing with empathy and care 💗
Thank you for hosting, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at ASU!
#SFJ2025 #phoenix
Come to hear from Pulitzer Prize winners Eli Saslow, Lane DeGregory & Mark Warren.
Stay for the food & drinks.
And suffer me waxing poetic about the power of sports journalism. 💪😜🏈
It's official!
We have a conference program!
Look at this rockstar lineup of speakers — from SFJ award to Pulitzer Prize winners.
You will learn, make friends, and be fed.
Join us at @arizonastateuni.bsky.social in November!
#journalismsky
www.featuresjournalism.org/blog/2025/9/...
We always try to plan SFJ conferences in vibrant cities so you can make it a mini-vacation or pitch a travel story.
This November, Hyatt Place is offering to extend our hotel discount!
See this from member and former SFJ president Ann Maloney for ideas:
www.featuresjournalism.org/blog/2025/8/...
Being a journalist and stepping into personal narrative can feel a bit weird. Writing in first-person feels awkward and a bit ego-centric.
But it's a wonderful way to tell a story! Personal narratives allow readers to connect with the writer.
See this webinar replay for tips on how to do it well.
ICYMI: If you want to learn how to skillfully weave in-depth reporting with personal narrative, please watch the replay of our July 15 webinar with @mallarytenore.bsky.social!
She has tips and more. Read the story to get link to video:
www.featuresjournalism.org/blog/2025/7/...
#journalism
Big news! The SFJ conference is back, for the first time since the pandemic!
Early bird registration is just $175, and we are thrilled to host it at @arizonastateuni.bsky.social's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication!
DETAILS: www.featuresjournalism.org/blog/2025/7/...
Boosting as a reminder!
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Our next free #webinar is July 15 with @mallarytenore.bsky.social, assistant professor at University of Texas at Austin and longtime journalist.
Come learn about blending personal narrative and reporting for stories or books. #journalism
www.featuresjournalism.org/blog/2025/6/...
If you want to read the best best best feature writing, read up on all the SFJ Award winners and check out their stories. I have 30 pages of printouts I'm going through right now to find things I want to read.
"if more people listened to this, they’d understand our current world much better"
thank you to @wearesfj.bsky.social for naming The Harvard Plan #1 narrative podcast
Y’all I won a thing. @wearesfj.bsky.social is the organization that gave me my first national award in 2000. Their support means everything.
ACK!!!!! chicago.suntimes.com/music/2024/1...
Pretty tickled about this one.
Blast from my past, or: echoes down the well of time. 👹
If I’m going to come in second, at least it’s to my hometown paper! 🤠
Here's the story: Up all night: What to do in St. Louis in the wee small hours of the morning
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