2023 Dateline Awards Final Submission Deadline.
Annual journalism contest deadline extended to 6 p.m. on March 10.
Apply:
https://betternewspapercontest.com/DCDatelineAwards
Details:
https://spjdc.org/2023/01/dateline-awards-2023/
Submission tips and how-tos for using the submission platform:
https://spjdc.org/2022/02/dateline-awards-2022-helpful-hints-tips/
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.
Each year, the SPJ DC Pro Chapter honors the best in print, broadcast and online journalism for coverage of the D.C. area. This year’s 2024 Dateline Awards contest has attracted new and old entrants. In light of industry news and to allow for more time to submit clips, the deadline is now SUNDAY, MARCH 17.
Submit your best work from 2023 at https://betternewspapercontest.com/DCDatelineAwards.
The contest is open to journalists who cover the Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Maryland. You do not have to be an SPJ member to enter.
Finalists and winners will be announced in June at the chapter’s annual Dateline Awards and Hall of Fame dinner at the National Press Club.
Save the date!
More info on tickets and Hall of Fame inductees coming soon.
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.
Cash bar cocktail hour begins 6 p.m. Dinner and gala begin at 7 p.m. (For those on deadline, program likely to start around 7:30 p.m. as dinner proceeds.) Business attire. Cocktail or sun dresses appropriate for women. Tie optional for men, but no shorts please!
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 234th 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.