CALL TO ORDER
APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF FEB. MEETING, JAN. MEETING
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
- — Nominations committee report
- — SPJ National president’s response to treatment of Memphis reporter –- a model for our board letter?
- — Chapter quarterly report; chapter “housekeeping” item: keeping up to date with minutes in timely fashion.
- — Update from Region 2 director Brian Eckert about train option for SPJfolks traveling to Region 2 conference in North Carolina.
- — Follow up with Reggie Stuart on no comps
- VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT
- — March 15, 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown's Clarendon Campus, "State of FOIA"; followed by monthly mixer (will fulfill Ensslin’s request for March Membership Month event)
- — April 18, sports reporting program; also in April, social media ethics program.
- — Possible program with DC Web Women for Women’s History Month event.
- — partnering with NPC possibly to host Dave Cuillier’s “Access Across America” tour on FOI, a kind of hands-on workshop on filing FOI requests.
- — Possible program on cops and reporters.
TREASURER’S REPORT
- — E-mailed March 1 to board; please print and bring your copy to meeting
OLD BUSINESS
- — Dateline Awards contest update: deadline extended, latest on exchanging entries with another pro chapter -– Joel (might not be able to make it, but Asher has report from him to deliver in his absence)
- — MOE judging, which is now complete; latest on the high school essay contest; update on 2012 dinner at NPC –- Andy
- — Any next steps on HOF inductees, now that they are confirmed? — Steve
NEW BUSINESS
- — March issue of Dateline newsletter
GOOD OF THE ORDER
ADJOURN