Dateline Awards Dinner tickets now on sale!

Our SPJ DC Chapter’s Dateline Awards Dinner, slated for 6 p.m., Tuesday, June 10, at the National Press Club, promises to celebrate the very best of journalism in our national’s…

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SPJ-DC 2025 Dateline Awards Finalists Announced

Each year, the Dateline Awards honor excellence in journalism across the D.C. Metro Region and celebrate winners at a Hall of Fame and Dateline Awards dinner May 12, 2025  For…

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2025 SPJ Dateline Awards Contest Open, Submit Your Work by March 17

*Deadline Extension: The Dateline Awards are now open until Monday, March 17. Get your submissions in today!* The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ)’s DC Pro Chapter is pleased to announce…

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Hall of Fame inductee Chen says emerging journalists today face skepticism, harsh criticism journalists of her generation didn’t experience

Clarence Page, syndicated Chicago Tribune columnist, was a professor who taught a young Joie Chen the basics of journalism in college. She was inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists…

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Hall of Fame inductee Martin says instability in the media marketplace pressures journalists to survive so the profession does, but calls for kindness to each other in the scrum

Steve Taylor, chair of the SPJ DC Pro Chapter’s Hall of Fame/DSA Committee, introduced his friend Michel Martin (right) as she was welcomed into the chapter’s Washington Journalism Hall of…

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