By Sidra Ayub
Photo by Yasmeen Smalley/ The Working Press.
In a first, two NU-Q students represented the Society of Professional Journalists in Qatar (SPJ-Q) at the Excellence in Journalism Conference this year in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Penny Yi Wang and Jaimee Haddad, journalism sophomores at NU-Q, attended the conference hoping to network with media professionals to seek legal advise for the protection of student journalists in Qatar.
The pair, who also bagged an award for travelling the longest distance for an SPJ conference, call it a rewarding experience. SPJ-Q had been in NU-Q for a while, but we hadn’t interacted with the larger SPJ community until this conference,
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