Join us for an evening of celebrating good journalism June 11 at NPC
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary and longtime CBS News White House Correspondent Peter Maer will be inducted as members of the Hall of Fame of the DC Pro Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists, on June 11, 2019.
The criterion for membership in the Hall of Fame is simply this: strong journalism over at least 25 years in Washington.
The three inductees will speak at the chapter’s annual Dateline Awards dinner in the ballroom of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. Cocktails begin at 6:00 p.m., with dinner at 7:00 p.m.
Purchase a ticket below.
On the same evening, the D.C. chapter’s 2019 Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Amy Fickling, who’s been an editor and reporter in the Washington, DC, region for more than 25 years and has served SPJ for just as long. Fickling also will speak at the dinner.
Wolf Blitzer is CNN’s lead political anchor and the host of The Situation Room. He joined CNN in 1990, just in time to report award-winning coverage of the Persian Gulf War of 1991. As a former White House Correspondent and host of Late Edition, he has covered every political campaign and presidency since1992 and moderated several presidential debates. He will be introduced by Eric Sherling, CNN senior vice president of Washington and Special Events Programming.
Michelle Singletary‘s award-winning Washington Post column “The Color of Money” is carried in dozens of newspapers across the country, providing important debt-management and budgeting advice for readers of all ages, often quoting her no-nonsense grandmother Big Mama. Ms. Singletary is also the author of several personal finance books. She will be introduced by Milton Coleman, former senior editor of the Washington Post, now visiting professor of Journalism Ethics at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.
Few White House Correspondents have covered the beat as long as Peter Maer. From 1986 until his 2015 retirement, he reported on Presidents Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama, including domestic and foreign travel and election campaigns. His radio reports were heard on Mutual and NBC before he moved to CBS in 1998. He will be introduced by Harvey Nagler, vice president, Radio, for CBS News.
Amy Fickling, currently treasurer of the SPJ DC Pro chapter, is a past president and has held every other chapter office as well as the presidency of the chapter’s SDX Foundation. She served on the national SPJ board as Region 2 Director. Currently editing copy for Warren Communications News’ International Trade Today and Export Compliance Daily, she is a veteran of newspapers, wire services and business publications in the DC Metro area. After a few years as a reporter and editor at New York Times regional newspapers in the South, she spent the early years of her local area journalism career at the Gazette papers in Montgomery County, Maryland, and at The Capital newspaper in Annapolis. Amy also is editor of SPJ DC’s widely-distributed Dateline Online newsletter. She will be introduced by Maurine Beasley, professor emerita at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland-College Park and former staff writer for the Washington Post. Maurine also is a past DC Pro chapter president.
Also at the June 11 dinner, SPJ’s DC Pro Chapter will present its annual Dateline Awards for excellence in local journalism.
Tickets for the dinner are now available for SPJ DC chapter members, priced at $95 until May 23 (+ ONE guest at the same price) and then $100 until June 3. After that the price goes to $120. Tickets are available to non-chapter members at $120 now and $125 after June 3.
Contact SPJ’S Amy Fickling at spjdcchapter@gmail.com (ATTN: Amy Fickling) if you have ticketing questions or questions about the status of your chapter membership or to make reservations.
News contact: Steve Taylor at juxta747@gmail.com or 571-355-2536.
June 11, 2019
Cocktails 6 p.m.
Dinner and Awards 7 p.m.
National Press Club
529 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20045
Tickets
General Public
Use the button below. When you access the PayPal page, scroll down and click on the button to “Pay with Debit or Credit Card.”
The total price of $124 is $120 for the ticket plus a processing fee of $4.
Table Rates
Table of 10 — $900 when registered by an SPJ-DC member
Table of 10 — $1,000 when registered by non-members
Table of 8 — $750 when registered by an SPJ-DC member
Table of 8 — $800 when registered by non-members
Contact Amy Fickling (spjdcchapter@gmail.com) with the subject line “HOF Table” to request an invoice.