SPJ Pizza Party at CMU – Journalism students and faculty enjoy pizza during a Society of Professional Journalists Colorado Pro Chapter visit on Oct. 6 to Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction. Beecher Threatt, co-publisher of the Ouray County Plaindealer; Richie Ann Ashcraft, web content editor of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel; Brian Calvert, associate editor of High Country News; and SPJ Colorado Pro Chapter president Ed Otte spoke to two journalism classes before the lunch.

Colorado Mesa University journalism professor Eric Sandstrom is pictured in his office with the 2014 SPJ Colorado Pro Chapter Journalism Educator of the Year award he received in April. Sandstrom, adviser to the CMU student SPJ chapter and to the campus newspaper, hosted an SPJ visit on Oct. 6 at CMU.