Austin Tice Virtual 5K

When:
November 8, 2025 all-day
2025-11-08T00:00:00-05:00
2025-11-09T00:00:00-05:00

Join journalists across the country for the Austin Tice Virtual 5K—a nationwide show of support for the freelance journalist abducted in Syria in 2012.

The event, taking place Nov. 8, is sponsored by the National Press Club and Press Freedom Center to spotlight freelance journalist Austin Tice who was abducted while covering Syria’s civil war in August 2012.

And you don’t have to run! You can walk or be a part of this heartfelt event virtually and through social media. Sign up to get a T-shirt!

When Syria’s dictator Bashar Al-Assad was toppled last December, then-President Joe Biden said the U.S. government believes Tice is still alive.