Here are some upcoming SPJ-DC chapter events (with more details to be released later):
— Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 6:15 to 8:45 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Medill School of Journalism, program will be on the new Al Jazeera America network, with two people from the station. Location is very close to Metro Center station.
— Wednesday, Nov. 20, from 6:15 to 9 p.m. Co-sponsored by the George Washingting University School of Media and Public Affairs, near Foggy Bottom Metro stop. Speaker is Christopher Weyant, cartoonist for The Hill newspaper and for New Yorker Magazine. He will provide an original drawing for a raffle.
— Tuesday, Dec. 3. Tour of new $200 million NPR Building at 1111 Capitol Street NE, near NOMA Metro stop. We also will combine this with our annual SPJ Holiday Party, to be held at the nearby Hilton Garden Inn.
In 2014, we hope to host the Region 2 conference in D.C. as our march program. In June we are planning an outing to “The Lion King” at the Kennedy Center Sunday, June 22. We’ll have a theater critic joining us, someone who can comment on this writing style in general, and this play in particular. Cash Bar and hors d’oeuvres beforehand.