CALL TO ORDER
First order of business: Nomination/election of members to fill vacancies on board: Carl Ericson (one-year term); Ann Augherton (one-year term); Christ Gunty (filling remaining year on Bill McCloskey’s term); swearing-in of new board members
MINUTES OF June 3 meeting
PRESIDENT’S REPORT (Elizabeth)
- Set dates of board meetings for 2013-2014; usually first Monday of the month (with some exceptions, like Labor Day) at National Press Club.
- Brief report on presentation by Amy Mitchell, acting director of the Pew Research Project for Excellence in Journalism. Topic: The rise of mobile news consumers: habits and what it means for media industry.
PROGRAMS (VPathy Burns, Minal Bopaiah)
- Events calendar (and do we need an events committee?) for the upcoming year.
- Three possible events Covering Mental Illness; a training/fundraiser for RISC (Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues, http://risctraining.org); and a monthly happy hour.
- July 18 diversity mixer at NBC4, organized by Brandon Benavides of NAHJ; also invite from Brandon for our chapter to be part of a job fair in the fall. (Asher)
- Fall workshop for high school newspaper advisers.
TREASURER (Amy Fickling)
- Treasurer’s report; copies of most recent bank statements for board review.
- Need approval of a couple non-receipted expenses from contest coordinator Joel Whitaker.
OLD BUSINESS
- Finalize list of SPJ-DC chapter’s SIX delegates to Anaheim convention; we’ll also choose some alternates. (Julie has list from last meeting). July 31 is deadline to submit to national SPJ office.)
NEW BUSINESS
- Setting up committee structure: for programs, communications, membership.
- Search for new Dateline Awards contest coordinator.
- Discussion of taking Dateline Awards contest online.
- Finalizing date for 2014 Dateline Awards dinner (second Tuesday would be June 10) at National Press Club.
- Need to decide about hosting 2014 Region 2 conference (possibly with the Georgetown University chapter, would probably be April dates)
- Revamping the Dateline newsletter.
GOOD OF THE ORDER
ADJOURN