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OFFICERS

President
Glenn Schuck
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1st Vice President
Larry Seary
Freelance
2nd Vice President
David Diaz
CUNY
Treasurer
Stan Brooks
1010 WINS
Secretary
Eileen Connelly
Associated Press
Corresponding Secretary
Stephani Shelton
The Fred Group
Financial Secretary
Bernd Debusmann, Jr.
Reuters
Student Member
Representative

Sabrina Buckwalter
Columbia University

GOVERNORS

Winnie Hu
The New York Times
Jane Tillman Irving
WCBS Newsradio
Rich Lamb
WCBS Newsradio
Mitch Lebe
Metro Networks
Phil O'Brien
Buzz60.com
Gabe Pressman
WNBC
David Seifman
New York Post
Elizabeth Semrai
The Daily

TRUSTEES

Mark Lieberman
Past President
John Mulligan
Past President
Tom Poster
Past President
Jerry Schmetterer
Past President
Deborah Wetzel
Past President
Consulting Director
Peter O.E. Bekker
Events Chairman
Mitch Lebe
Public Relations
Debra J. Caruso
Photographer
Jack Dobosh
Counsel
Farrell Farrell Burke
Clergy
Joseph O'Hare, S.J.
Rabbi Joseph Potasnik

The Latest:

J-Awards An Associated Press team has won top honors in the 2012 New York Press Club Awards for Journalism for the investigative series, "NYPD Spies on NYC."

The Gold Keyboard award winner was one of six AP entries judged exemplary by the competition jury, a tally matched by The Wall Street Journal and by hyperlocal news website DNAinfo.com which won Best Web Exclusive Content for its "Crime and Safety Report," an in-depth analysis of crime in 69 New York City neighborhoods.

Detailed results and dinner RSVP info on our Awards page.
Players Club Membership Benefit Approved
Players Members in good standing of the New York Press Club are able to take advantage of an optional benefit: membership on very special terms in the historic Players Club on Gramercy Park.

A comfortable, convivial and gracious "hang out," the Players membership benefit is available to all interested New York Press Club members who are in good standing. Send us a note, for details.
Williams-Rude Recent word that the Denver Post has become the most recent publication to sweep away its copy editors in a fit of frugality set our "Constant Columnist" to reminiscing.

Beatrice Williams-Rude observes, "The desk is, in effect, now being used to acquaint neophytes with the profession, rather than utilizing the knowledge of experienced veterans." Beatrice might have added, "to assure that the published product does not resemble the work of neophytes."

More...on the Constant Columnist page.
Press Club Election Ballots Mailed
Election Our nominating committe has completed work on this year's ballot for the election of New York Press Club officers. Members should by now have received ballots by mail and are encouraged to complete and return them by May 31st. Instructions for voting and returning completed ballots are included in the mailing.

The leadership election is held annually. Officers of the Club each serve one year terms. Governors serve two year terms and Trustees are elected to five year terms.
J-Conf logo
Saturday, September 29th
NYU Kimmel Center
West 4th Street & LaGuardia Place
8:30am - 2:00pm

SAVE THE DATE for this year's Conference on Journalism, the 20th annual such event produced by the New York Press Club Foundation.

Details of this year's conference will be published here, when available.
C1A logo The New York Press Club is collecting specific and verifiable information about First Amendment abuses by public safety agencies operating in New York City. Please let us know if you have been improperly obstructed by members of any public safety agency while on assignment or while engaged in spec coverage with intent to publish.

Incidents can be reported on our Coalition for the First Amendment page. The New York Press Club and a number of other organizations representing journalists in New York City formed the Coalition to monitor police-press relations and to document and protest tactics and behavior that contravene First Amendment protections. Each such instance that comes to our attention is posted on the Coalition page.

We urge working journalists who feel they have been subjected to suppressive or unreasonably exclusionary tactics by any government agency to let us know about it.

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"Patch on PIX" segments will feature the AOL hyperlocal news network's content on its daily newscasts. (NetNewsCheck)

Susanne Reber will oversee national, international and enterprise projects and will be in charge of health and environment reporters. (Poynter.org)

Andrew Julien is a 23-year veteran of the Courant newsroom. (Editor & Publisher)

Times ending Sunday magazine with June 3 issue. (Los Angeles Times)

"...while other magazines are doing shorter stuff, [we,] The New Yorker and The Atlantic and others are really thriving as a place where if you're a reader, you can go." (CapitalNY)

Show is meant to capitalize on Boston sports fanaticism and peak traffic time on Boston.com. (Nieman Journalism Lab)

PubliCola founder: “We haven’t been successful as a business. Advertising revenue has been limited and inconsistent.” (Columbia Journalism Review)

The Press and Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton, N.Y., the Star-Gazette in Elmira, N.Y., the Ithaca Journal and New Jersey dailies Home News Tribune and Courier News all launched their programs. (News & Tech)

Brief urges the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to uphold a lower court decision finding that White House visitor logs are agency records subject to the Freedom of Information Act. (RTDNA)

In Harvard talk, Richard Gingras riffs on the tradeoff inherent in paywalls to the distraction of iPad apps and the dangers of innovating too slowly. (GigaOm)

Dividends, share buybacks, and an anti-paywall stance help bleed the paper dry. (Columbia Journalism Review)

A set of algorithms which take data and turn it into words began as an experimental lab, but now appear on Forbes.com. (Guardian UK)

Recent drive to move them off frequencies and put their political advertising rates on the Internet leads broadcasters to one conclusion: The FCC has it in for television. (Politico)

It helps to have friends in high places. (Los Angeles Times)

The initiative includes the development of four new audience metering technologies designed to deal with all of the conceivable challenges involved in measuring the viewing behavior of contemporary consumer households. (MediaDailyNews)

Plans national 'Daily News' website. (Ad Week)

Groups have urged the FCC to pull Fox's licenses because of evidence that its parent company News Corp. hacked people's phones in the United Kingdom to get stories. (The Hill)

Broadcasters warn that the TV industry will be totally changed. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Some of the newspapers’ video content is so good that it has beaten material produced by TV news departments when it’s gone head-to-head in awards competitions. (TVNewsCheck)

The year-old startup, backed by several newspaper industry heavy hitters, struggled to find a way to charge readers who have free alternatives. (Nieman Journalism Lab)

Sources Say AOL Seeking Buyers for Engadget and TechCrunch (PandoDaily)

Bitly study results show interesting, distinct patterns among Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. (Poynter.org)

The 12 new community newsroom projects will use a variety of methods to involve the community in reporting news, issues and events in the cities, suburbs and towns covered by Digital First newsrooms. (NetNewsCheck)


Underwriters

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An underwriter of the Press Club's Awards for Journalism ceremony and our Foundation's annual Holiday Party for charity, Con Edison Inc. has been supplying the energy that powers New York for more than 180 years. Click to learn more.
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