Entries are open for the 2012 New York Press Club Awards for Journalism. They close Friday, April 6th.

A discounted entry fee is available during February to encourage prompt submissions (through March 1st). Members of the Press Club may take advantage of the discounted rate throughout the entire entry period.

An enduring tradition in New York media, the annual New York Press Club Awards For Journalism honor excellence in the craft by writers, reporters, editors, producers, shooters and multimediographers.

Enter the competition on the Awards page.

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.

January and February as membership renewal months. Dues are the same for 2012 as for 2011.

In this year's dues letter, an optional membership tier is described that will permit participating members to use the Players Club in Gramercy Park as if they were members of that storied organization. The Players is housed in a landmark Gramercy Park mansion and offers a full range of social club amenities such as a bar, grill, restaurant, library and reading rooms in a genteel and historic setting. Privileges at more than 30 reciprocal clubs such as the Friar's, Explorers and Salamagundi clubs in New York and the Garrick, Reform and Saville clubs in London are included.

If enough Press Club members express interest in the new tier, arrangements will be made to institute the new membership category early in the new year.

Click to renew dues by credit card.

View candids from New York Press Club events:

2011 NY Press Club Foundation Holiday Party
Assessing the Press and "Occupy Wall Street"
An Evening With SchoolBook.com Editors
2011 Journalism Conference at NYU

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