Celebrating World Press Freedom Day in Washington

May 3 was declared World Press Freedom Day by the United Nations in 1993. Since then, journalists and press freedom advocates around the world have celebrated the day with conferences…

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Former Chapter President and Hall of Fame Inductee Focus of Story on DC-Based Journalists

Jonathan Salant, former SPJ DC chapter president and 2023 Hall of Fame inductee, was the focus of a story pushed out by Voice of America on the ever-dwindling number of…

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Chapter Program on covering the 2024 elections: It’s Not the Odds, It’s the Stakes

Media critic and author Margaret Sullivan, formerly executive editor of The Buffalo News, was public editor at The New York Times and a columnist for The Washington Post. She now…

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