3/02/2010
- Liz Enochs named president for SPJ-NorCal chapter
- Elizabeth Tomei named chapter secretary
Directors of the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California chapter, have selected San Francisco journalist Liz Enochs as president, filling out the unexpired term of Ricardo Sandoval. In a separate vote, the board also elected Elizabeth Tomei as chapter secretary, a position that had been vacant.
Enochs has been an SPJ-NorCal director since 2008. Tomei was elected to the board in summer, 2009. Both were unanimously elected to their new positions by the chapter’s directors on Feb. 9, 2010.
Enochs, associate editor at the San Francisco Daily Journal, is an award-winning journalist with two decades of experience, including a dozen years covering business, finance, and economics. Her stories have appeared in, among other publications, The New York Times, The International Herald-Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, and The Boston Globe. Her experience includes work as a senior editor at Hanley Wood, where she edited stories for two magazines, Affordable Housing Finance and Apartment Finance Today. She previously worked at Red Herring magazine, Bloomberg News, The Bond Buyer, Mother Jones magazine, Mountain Xpress, and Horizon magazine.
For the chapter, Enochs has chaired the Program Committee. She organized last year’s series of workshops – Journalism in the Age of the iPhone – for professionals dealing with a rapidly changing industry. Another round of workshops starts in March.
Enochs will help plan the upcoming Journalism Innovations conference, which this year doubles as the SPJ Region 11 annual meeting. She will also help plan the chapter’s Excellence in Journalism Awards competition and dinner, slated for November.
Tomei is a freelance writer and native San Franciscan who has worked as a journalist in Southeast Asia, Guatemala and the Bay Area. From 2005 to 2008 she was based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where she was an associate editor at The Cambodia Daily newspaper and specialized in political, health, and human rights reporting. She has worked as a freelance writer and researcher and as a consultant to several nonprofits. Tomei currently lives in San Francisco and reports periodically for the SF Public Press. She plans to pursue graduate study in international politics and policy analysis.
Tomei has recently taken the helm of SPJ-NorCal’s Membership Committee and is now reorganizing the chapter’s member outreach and recruiting programs.
Sandoval, who had served as chapter president since the summer of 2008, recently joined the Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C. He maintains a home in Northern California and will continue to work with the chapter on upcoming projects, including the Journalism Innovations conference. He also will continue to serve on the chapter’s executive committee, as treasurer.
SPJ’s Northern California chapter is more than 220 members strong. It is one of the nation’s leading voices on issues facing today’s journalists. The chapter routinely speaks out on journalism ethics, freedom of information matters, threats to journalists and their work, and difficult challenges facing the news industry. The chapter has helped fund legal defense of journalists in the region, and helped obtain seed funding for the award-winning Chauncey Bailey Project. Each year the chapter conducts a number of workshops for journalists on emerging issues and new technology. The chapter also sponsors the annual Excellence in Journalism Awards and the James Madison Awards, honoring champions of the public’s right to know.
Contact:
Liz Enochs, President: (415) 608-0220, liz@lizenochs.com
Ricardo Sandoval, Treasurer: (415) 786-1258, rsandovalpalos@yahoo.com
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