CT SPJ alumna Rebecca Baker installed as national SPJ president
Rebecca Baker, who got her journalism start in Connecticut and is a former board member of the SPJ Connecticut Pro Chapter, became the 101st president of the national Society of Professional Journalists during the President’s Installation Banquet at the 2017 Excellence in Journalism conference in Anaheim, California, this week.
A former New Haven Register reporter, Baker now works as deputy head of news at the New York Daily News. Before that, she worked as editor-in-chief of the New York Law Journal.
Baker is the first SPJ national president from New York City in 35 years, according to the SPJ.
At the installation banquet, she spoke about the many ways the SPJ has helped her in advancing her career and how the organization helps members and non-members alike in furthering the mission of good journalism.
One of Baker’s goals is to get SPJ members into classrooms over the next year to speak to students about the importance of journalism.
“If we can reach kids, we can reach the future consumers of our news,” said Baker, speaking of the program dubbed Press for Education.
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