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Happy New Year! It’s time for the next SPJ freelance lunch.

Jan. 24 at the National Press Club at noon.

Please contact Stephenie for more information or to RSVP.

The SPJ International Community has two leaders from The World Affairs Council for our July 28 ICTalk. We will be speaking with the CEO and President of the World Affairs Council, Bill Clifford, and the Executive Director of the Montana World Affairs Council, Chris Hyslop. We will discuss how local journalists can build stories that reflect a global connection to local issues or a local link to an international story. The organization has roots going back 100 years and connects foreign and local affairs in more than 90 cities around the United States makes foreign affairs less foreign. Register HERE

CHAPTER MEMBERS: Mark Your Calendar for an in-person gathering for the holiday season.

Join your SPJ DC Pro colleagues Tuesday, Dec. 5, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., at the National Press Club.

We’ll have a private meeting room, free snacks, cash bar.  🍷🍺

More info coming later.

Join the chapter and other journalists Friday, Oct. 4, at 5 p.m. to meet with 10 foreign journalists visiting the United States under the auspices of the World Press Institute. The gathering will be in the Cosgrove Lounge on the 14th floor of the National Press Club in downtown Washington (529 14th Street NW, 20045 near Metro Center station).

The DC chapter will provide some light snacks. Beverages will be available from a server, but you’ll pay for your own order.

The visiting journalists are coming from Brazil, Bulgaria, Finland, India, Italy, Kosovo, Nigeria, Peru, South Africa and Ukraine.

The World Press Institute, founded in 1961, has provided regular opportunities for journalists from around the world to visit the U.S. and compare notes with their American counterparts.

Please sign up for the event here.

A no-agenda, no holds barred get together sponsored by the SPJ International Community. Just a chance to meet and chat.

Sign up HERE.

Come celebrate the holiday season with your fellow members of the Washington, D.C., Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. We’ll also toast the near-arrival of the 234^th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, our First Amendment birthdate.

We will provide the great New Orleans-style food — you just need to pay for anything you want to drink from the cash bar.

The Ragtime Restaurant is a 2–4-minute walk from the Court House Orange Line Metro station. You can’t get much more convenient than that.

We are aiming to grow our membership in these days when a strong, united voice from journalists committed to seeking truth and reporting it to the public is more important than ever. Bring a colleague who you think would be interested in joining.

This will be a great opportunity for chapter members to connect/re-connect, and for you to meet prospective members who may be our guests and tell them what membership means to you and why they should be part of our chapter and our mission. Spread the cheer, but also spread your enthusiasm for SPJ.

Sign up HERE to let us know you are coming.

Please note that you should respond using the form on the link above so we have your name and email address for any updates.