San Diego CityBeat Uses Public Records Act to Obtain Internal SPJ Emails

After reporting extensively on the WikiLeaks cables and their local impact, San Diego CityBeat‘s Dave Maass felt a little slighted after the Society of Professional Journalists refused to consider him for a local panel on the topic.

A little while later, this happened:

This matter originated with an exchange between CityBeat’s arts editor Kinsee Morlan and SPJ San Diego organizers over the lack of alt-weekly representation in SPJ’s regional spring conference programming. Conference coordinator and SPJ-SD Vice President Christy Scannell accidentally forwarded Morlan an email containing an internal discussion in which Morlan was called “obnoxious” and there was a snide remark about my previous request to be included on a panel discussing the WikiLeaks controversy.

So,

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