Need a push getting started on your article for The Sacramento Press Journalism Open 2012? We've got a workshop for that. Bring your story ideas and questions about the writing contest to our Journalism Open workshop Tuesday, Jan. 17. We will go over how to enter photos: standalone or accompanying, judging criteria, past winners and how to develop your stories by including sources and doing research. The workshop will be from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. at The Sacramento Press office. Our office is located at 431 I St., Suite 107, in the Sacramento Valley Station station. We are in the same building complex as Starbucks. We recommend you find parking on the street, bike or take light rail, as th

If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to publish your first article, consider the rewards of doing it on The Sacramento Press. Last year we gave out thousands in cash prizes to winners of The Sacramento Press Journalism Open, and we’re ready to do it again. This is the third year that we’ve hosted The Sacramento Press Journalism Open. The contest is pro-am, meaning writers of all skill levels are welcome to enter. If you aren’t familiar with The Sacramento Press, we’re a hyperlocal online newspaper that focuses on community news. We aim to be the best source for local news and we would like you to help us achieve that by sharing your stories. No reporter knows more than you when it c

The winners of the first Sacramento Press Pro-Am Journalism Open have been chosen. Historian William Burg claimed the Grand Prize with his detailed, well-reasoned and beautifully-written list of 10 suggestions on how K Street might be returned to its former glory. Frequent Sacramento Press contributors Ali Tabatabai, Rhonda Erwin and Marion Millin also took top prizes, as did first-time community contributor Stephanie Rodriquez and our part-time copy editor Elisa Hough. Their prizes will range from $100-500, with Burg’s prize a weekend at Squaw Valley. Other contributors won prizes for smaller aspects of their stories, whether the accompanying photos, a great quote or a well-turned headl

October is almost half over and we've only gotten16 stories submitted for the Journalism Open. We have roughly 15 prizes to give out, and we'd love to have a lot more content to judge for our writing contest. That being said, we don't want you overestimating the time and effort you need to put into writing an article for the Sacramento Press. We offer free copy editing, so don't put off writing for the chance to win $500, a trip to Squaw Valley, and other prizes because you think your article needs to be Pulitzer-Prize worthy. We're having a workshop Tuesday, Oct. 13 to answer all of your questions about The Sacramento Press Journalism Open. If you've been hesitant to enter or just hea

How many times have you read a newspaper article and said, "I could have written that"? Well, now you can. For nearly a year, you have been able to do that on The Sacramento Press, where everyone can try his or her hand at writing a news story, and be published instantly, on the Web. That will continue to be the case, as the Press grows its audience and a small army of community contributors that now numbers more than 500 people. But for the month of October, The Sacramento Press is sweetening the pot: Not only can you write stories, have them copy-edited and posted on our site. Now you can win, and win big: The Sacramento Press Journalism Open is offering prizes of as much as $500 for t