Dateline Awards folders at table at NPC on dinner night

Dateline Awards Contest coming soon!

Each year, the SPJ DC Pro Chapter honors the best in print, broadcast and online journalism. This year’s 2025 Dateline Awards contest will open soon. Prepare now to submit your best…

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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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