Revenue is very much on Alan Rusbridger's mind these days but has not sidetracked the aggressive journalism practiced at The Guardian, the newspaper he edits. The Guardian has distinguished itself in recent years as first to publish WikiLeaks material and by breaking the News of the World phone hacking scandal and attempted cover-up that continues to bedevil the Murdoch empire.

Rusbridger's hunt for ways to replenish a trust that is the major source of Guardian revenue has brought him to New York City where he has set-up an online news shop in Soho, aiming to make more than a dent in the American market.

Join Alan Rusbridger for an evening of Q&A about how he is addressing the Guardian's economic challenges, his NYC-based online news project and his support of an editorial technique called "open journalism" (fancifully depicted in this Guardian-produced video): Free for Press Club members and CUNY J-School students.
Non-members $15.

Hugo Lindgren, editor of the New York Times Magazine, visits the Press Club for a conversation about the future of long-form journalism.

The discussion will likely range to include everything from NPR to “CBS Sunday Morning” to magazines such as the one edited by Mr. Lindgren.

Moderator: Stephen Shepard, founding dean, CUNY Graduate J-School.

Free for members, CUNY J-Grad school students and alums.

Get a leg-up on preparing your 1040 or 1040EZ in this free-for-members workshop with tax professionals, moderated by John R. Lieberman of Perelson Weiner LLP. Topics and advice will include tax strategies of benefit to journalists who are either freelance or employees. We'll also offer tax advice of interest to student journalists.

When last held, this workshop was highly regarded, useful as a valuable resource for bringing attendees first-hand information from knowledgeable, professional CPA's.

Free for members, CUNY J-Grad school students and alums.

An evening of reminiscences is planned about Ed Koch by those who knew, worked with and who covered him. A panel is being organized but the heart of this event is likely to be "open mike." All who'd care to share personal stories about their experiences covering the late mayor are welcome to hold-forth.

Not a wake, certainly not funereal, we hope the evening will reveal as much about the process of having covered Ed Koch and New York City during his era as it does about the pluck of the man.

Among those kicking-off the proceedings: Gabe Pressman, WNBC; Stan Brooks, 1010-WINS; Rich Lamb, WCBS Newsradio 880; Greg David, director of Business & Economic Reporting at the CUNY and a columnist & blogger for Crains NY Business.

This is an event for journalists. There is no admission charge.

Ring in the Lunar New Year with other Press Club members at a networking and informational bash hosted by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York City (TECO-NY).

As part of the proceedings, TECO-NY director general, Ambassador Andrew Kao, will provide a briefing on the contemporary economic and cultural situation in Taiwan. TECO-NY is one of 12 regional offices operated by Taiwan's de-facto embassy in Washington, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Organization (TECRO). In the absence of official diplomatic ties, TECRO was established in 1979 to represent Taiwan's interests in the United States.

This "Year of the Snake" banquet and reception has been organized expressly for members of the New York Press Club. Admission is free.

A panel discussion of the many challenges faced by journalists in covering Superstorm Sandy.

ANTHONY DePRIMO – Staten Island Advance
Sandy is a story close to home for Anthony DePrimo. Not only did the super storm devastate the area he covers, it also damaged his childhood home. In a photo slideshow he’s produced, DePrimo will share his thoughts on covering a major story – including a visit from the President of the United States - while also dealing with the impact on his parents.

ALEX SILVERMAN – WCBS NewsRadio 880
Silverman’s live reports the night Sandy battered the tri-state were harrowing. Since then, he’s focused his reporting on the long recovery and on ideas about how to prepare for the next natural catastrophe.

BRIAN THOMPSON – WNBC-TV
Thompson’s unmatched talent to tell poignant stories using sound and pictures was evident when Sandy struck and continues in the months since. His reports capture the loss, heart-break and strength of people all along the devastated Jersey Shore. He’ll share insights and anecdotes about those folks, Governor Chris Christie, and more.

MIKE VENTURA - Managing Editor, DNAinfo.com New York.
Its Web-base allowed DNAinfo.com New York to maintain a full staff of approximately 40 editors and reporters throughout the storm working remotely which enabled the team to constantly update the website with breaking news, and to provide specific information that people needed to know about evacuation zones, mass transit availability, power outages, and more.

This event should be of compelling interest to all journalists who have or who may one day face the prospect of covering massive disaster.

Moderator: Phil O'Brien, Zazoom/Buzz60. Co-founder of NY1 News and formely an executive news producer at WNBC, Phil is a New York Press Club governor.

Free for members and CUNY J-Grad school students.

This year's New York Press Club Foundation Holiday Party will take place at the Yale Club, conveniently located in Midtown and steps from Grand Central Terminal.

Join colleagues and friends for an evening of festive camaraderie and brighten the holidays for a disadvantaged New York City youngster by bringing with you an unwrapped gift.

Same cost as last year:
Members: $50, Student Members: $20, Non-Members: $70

It will be playoff season when author and sports PR whiz Marty Appel joins us for an evening of sports banter.

An acclaimed master of sports promotion, Appel has written numerous sports-themed books including a recent narrative history, "Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss." He has helped a number of sports luminaries with their own tomes, ghostwriting books for Eric Gregg, Bowie Kuhn, Lee MacPhail, Thurman Munson, and Tom Seaver.

Accomplished in practically all aspects of sports promotion, Appel has produced sports coverage on TV, worked with sports museums and halls of fame and has contributed mightily to promoting and chronicling sports accomplishment with enviable energy.

Moderator: Juliet Papa, 1010 WINS.

Free for Press Club members and CUNY J-School students (RSVP required).
Non-members $15 (Please RSVP near the top of this page).

Pete Hamill has written many books, both fiction and non-fiction, his most recent being “Tabloid City,” summarized by the Los Angeles Times thusly: "A veteran reporter decides to quit when his newspaper converts to a Web-only publication. But he still has stories to chase."

Hamill is both a journalist and an educator beginning his legendary career as a reporter for the New York Post where, briefly, he was also editor. He wrote for the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Daily News, the Village Voice and New York Newsday. His work has appeared in New York Magazine, the New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy and Rolling Stone.

Press Club member Paul LaRosa, proprietor of the "Here is New York" blog and author of the journalism memoir, "Leaving Story Avenue," will moderate.

Free for Press Club members and CUNY J-School students (RSVP required). Non-members $15.

DRESS: Business/Business Casual

	Tickets	Table for 10	Table for 12
Members:	$110	$1,100	$1,320
Student Members:	$35
Non-Members:	$135	$1,350	$1,620
Members may invite one guest at the member rate.
Member-rate for tables applies if a member is seated.
Questions? Contact the Press Club.

A reception (open bar) is the traditional kick-off to each year's Awards presentations. On a late spring evening, few places are as delightful for mixing and mingling as the upper deck of Manhattan's Water Club.

Cocktails will be followed by dinner and by the presentation of this year's New York Press Club Awards for Journalism.

Always an exciting evening, the Press Club Awards acknowledge notable achievement by members of New York's journalism community. The event is also a terrific opportunity in a delightful setting for catching up with friends and colleagues.

A TV reporter in New York City during the 1970's and 1980's, John Miller's subsequent career has swung regularly between journalism and law enforcement. A former NYPD deputy commissioner for public information, Miller also worked for the Los Angeles Police Department in anti-terror. Between police postings, he was an ABC News correspondent, co-anchoring "20/20." While at ABC, Miller landed an enviable scoop: an interview with Osama bin Laden. His career has also included roles at the Justice Department (FBI) and in the office of the director of national intelligence.

Now a senior correspondent at CBS News, John Miller reports for all CBS News platforms and broadcasts, including "CBS This Morning," the "CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley," and occasionally for "60 Minutes."

Join us for an evening of what's sure to be scintillating conversation with this winner of nine Emmy, two Peabody and a duPont Award for journalism.

Moderator: Tim Scheld - News Director, WCBS Newsradio 880.

Press Club Members & CUNY J-School students: Free. RSVP required.

SOLD OUT

Last year's Occupy Wall Street protests brought with them what many working reporters see as an alarming tactical decision by NYPD brass to suppress coverage of police actions through the intimidation, segregation, assaults upon and the arrests of reporters.

Incidents of suppression at various news scenes were blatant and frequent and have caused press groups in New York City to formally demand of Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Kelly that the infringements on speech cease.

In response, the mayor proclaimed that the press was being kept from news scenes for its own protection. Perhaps more constructively, the commissioner reminded his department that published NYPD policy expressly prohibits interfering with working journalists. Despite the commissioner's reminder, there have been numerous recurrences of suppressive tactics.

Join us for an evening with three reporters who have been subjected to interference and arrest for doing their jobs:

• Don Mathisen who was prevented from shooting video for a City Limits magazine Web piece about New York public schools.
• Carla Murphy who was arrested for observing a small Occupy the Bronx demonstration and is opting for trial on the legalities.
• Robert Stolarik was was harrassed and ejected from an Occupy Wall Street demonstration at the World Financial Center while on assignment for the New York Times.

Joining the panel, Karen Kaiser, an attorney for the Associated Press and Murray Weiss, an investigative reporter who spent more than 20 years covering NYPD from inside police HQ for the Daily News and the New York Post.

Moderator: David Diaz, CUNY professor and former senior correspondent and news anchor for WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV.

It's not politics as usual for many journalists covering the race for the White House. Political websites are changing how political news is covered and how it is received. Like TV but without the cumbersome equipment, Web coverage is as close to real time as it gets. It's a multimedia world and stories are now told with video, stills, audio, text streams, blogs, and interactive enhancers, often all at the same time.

Robust political coverage has been available on the Internet for more than 20 years but mass adoption of the World Wide Web didn't catch fire until the mid-2000's. It was only four years ago that Politico.com emerged as a destination site for political news. ABC and NBC News have recently launched purpose-built political websites and we have assembled a panel of notables from each of those organizations to disccuss the present state of their art.

The New York Press Club Foundation's Holiday Party is a favorite holiday "season opener" and an annual contender for most convivial. Always a memorable evening, the New York Press Club Foundation's Holiday Party also brightens the holidays for disadvantaged New York City youngsters through toys donated by party guests.

You are cordially invited to join the festive gathering of friends and colleagues for an evening of good cheer in the Delta SKY360° Suite at Yankee Stadium, high above home plate.

And speaking of plates, guests will want to fill theirs with delicious items from the non-stop Holiday Party buffet:

Salads Yankees Caesar Salad, Romaine Hearts, Classic Dressing, Shaved Parma Cheese, and Roasted Garlic Brioche Croutons Mini Iceberg Wedge, Crumbled Blue Cheese, Tomato, Red Onion Citrus Splashed Orzo and Asparagus Salad, with Fresh Crab Pasta Lobster Ravioli tossed in a Mixed Seafood Cream Sauce Entrées Sliced New York Steak with Beer Battered Onion Rings Grilled Chicken Breast with Roasted Garlic and Rosemary Au Jus Sides Garlic Whipped and Crispy Shoestring Potato Duet Pan Flashed Baby Vegetables Freshly Baked Rolls with Butter Dessert Freshly Sliced Fruit Assorted Mini Cheesecakes An array of Stadium made Specialty Cupcakes Beverages Wine, beer, soda, bottled waters, coffee & tea

News outlets in New York have have been criticized for ignoring the Manhattan "Occupy Wall Street" movement in its early days and for failing to "get" the significance of the burgeoning protests, now widespread in this country and abroad.

Is local media clueless about how to cover an event that lacks the usual mechanisms for expedient processing such as a PR apparatus, a central authority, and "sound bite" messaging? Are critics of the media correct when they claim that even now, local media remains more interested in reporting mundane events at Zuccotti Park than exploring the issues that have drawn protesters there to "occupy Wall Street?"

Join us for a panel discussion of those and other issues related to the OWS phenomenon including the response so far by City government and police, the monopolization of a privately owned public space, and the impact of the OWS siege on neighborhood businesses and residents.

Our list of panelists is growing and now includes:

• Bill Buster, OWS supporter and participant.
• Julie Menin, Chair of lower Manhattan's Community Board 1.
• Mike Amon, Wall Street Journal editor.
• Robert C. Hockett, of Cornell Law School, an expert on state, federal & Constitutional law (who lives near Zuccotti Park).

Mitch Lebe of Metro Networks will moderate the discussion.
A free event for Press Club members and CUNY J-School students.

A newspaper with global reach and the nation’s most listened to public radio station are collaborating on a new online forum for those with a stake or interest in education in New York City.

The New York Times and WNYC-FM have created SchoolBook a community-based "hyperlocal" Web site that connects the City's approximately 1,700 public and 800 private schools with anyone who'd like to find out more about them or who'd like to join the conversation about education in New York City.

Featuring a home page with fresh, daily content, SchoolBook offers coverage of education-related news by New York Times and WNYC reporters; user-friendly, interactive tools to help parents and others analyze schools and education issues; and platforms for community journalism and discussion.

Also on the site: user friendly databases containing information on school staffing, programs and facilities, including an expanded verison of the test-score database that currently resides on nytimes.com.

Join the creators of SchoolBook for a discussion of how they plan to develop their inovative, comprehensive resource and online forum for parents, teachers, administrators and education experts.

On the Panel:
Jim Schacter, Associate Managing Editor of the New York Times who is working to expand the newspaper's footprint online and in print. He is the leader of The Local, that develops hyperlocal Web sites that team professional journalists, leading journalism schools and local residents.

Jodi Rudoren is education editor of the New York Times who oversees a team of dozens of reporters covering schools and colleges in New York and across the country. Her other work at the Times has included creating the new Sunday Metropolitan section.

John Keefe is the Senior Executive Producer for News at WNYC-FM. He is leading the station’s efforts in interactive news applications.

Admission to this event is free of charge. RSVP required.

This year's theme: "Crisis and Change." In a year of numerous natural and man-made catastrophes, what lessons have been learned?

Press briefing on the progress of World Trade Center reconstruction by developer Larry Silverstein and an update on the National September 11 Memorial and Museum by its president and CEO, Joe Daniels.

The New York Press Club is hosting this event at 7 World Trade Center. Media-specific visits to the Memorial Plaza or panoramic views of the WTC reconstruction site and Memorial for credentialed, working press will follow the development briefings.

There has been heavy demand for this event. We are able to admit only those who have sent an RSVP.

Schedule:

• 10:30AM - arrive 7 WTC
• 11:00AM - news conference with Larry Silverstein and Joe Daniels
• 12:00PM - media-specific tours/photo ops begin
• 01:00PM - event ends

A safety dress code applies on-site:

• Work boots/sturdy shoes
• No skirts or dresses
• Hard hats will be provided

Contact the Press Club.
More about the World Trade Center.
More about the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

We return to Manhattan's Water Club for this year's New York Press Club Journalism Awards and Installation of Officers dinner.

A reception (open bar) on the Water Club's upper deck is prelude to an evening that celebrates exceptional journalism.

Keeping with tradition, newly-elected Press Club officers will be installed in a (mercifully) brief ceremony immediately following cocktails. Then it's on to a multi-course banquet and the evening's raison d'être: presentation of the New York Press Club Awards for Journalism for 2011.

Always a memorable evening, the Awards Dinner fosters acknowledgement of notable achievement by peers. It is also a terrific opportunity in a delightful setting for socializing and for catching up with friends and colleagues.

DRESS: Business Casual.

Last year's dinner sold out. We recommend reserving early.

A TV Guide poll ranks him as the second most trusted news anchor in the land and the Washington Post compares his rapid-fire delivery to a news NASCAR driver, "racing through the news at breakneck speed."

Enter the "The FOX Report" and go "Around the World in 80 Seconds" with Shepard Smith, whose fast-paced style and jam-packed newscasts are unique in TV news.

Smith's reporting has been a fixture on FOX News Channel (FNC) since he joined the network at its inception in 1996. Currently anchor of FNC's signature evening newscast, "The Fox Report," which ranks in the top five programs in cable news and has been number one in the 7 PM timeslot for over 100 consecutive months, Smith also appears in the afternoon as anchor of "Studio B with Shepard Smith."

An intrepid reporter, Smith has covered virtually every major news story over the course of his career. He notably covered Hurricane Katrina from the French Quarter as an impending threat and its aftermath from Mississippi, including the recovery efforts. Additionally, he has provided extensive reporting on the Middle East conflict during the summer of 2006 from the Israel-Lebanon border; the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the subsequent war in Afghanistan; Operation Iraqi Freedom; the funeral of Pope John Paul II; the Columbia Shuttle disaster; the Columbine school massacre; and President Clinton's impeachment and trial. He was also one of only two television correspondents to witness the execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh in June of 2001.

Spend an evening of Q&A with Shepard Smith and engage with the man whose distinctive style Fox News calls, "the future of television news."

Moderator: Rich Lamb WCBS Newsradio 880.

A storied chronicler of countless thousands of stories about New York City and its denizens, Jimmy Breslin's 40+ years as a reporter and columnist for a number of metro papers made him perhaps the best known journalist in a town where such fame is often fleeting.

The CUNY Graduate School of Journalism is hosting Jimmy Breslin for a talk about his reporting and column writing career and about the books he has written (20+), including one soon-to-be-released, a biography of Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers executive who hired Jackie Robinson, breaking major league baseball's "color barrier."

This is a rare opportunity to meet and talk with the near-legendary muckraker and Pulitzer Prize winner who retired as a full-time columnist at Newsday in 2004.

Breslin's career began at the Long Island Press. He rose to fame in ensuing years at the New York Herald Tribune. the Daily News and Newsday as a champion of the "common man" and scourge of those whose machinations made life difficult for ordinary people. He is considered a pioneer of the "New Journalism" of the early 1960's when his Herald column was incorporated by Clay Felker into the fledgling New York Magazine.

Breslin's reporting on the Mob and on individual mobsters (who much preferred anonymity) further elevated his profile and in at least one incident, led to a severe beating at the hands of a mafioso who was unhappy about Breslin's exposés. Breslin's 1969 novel about Brooklyn gangsters, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, was made into a movie starring Robert DeNiro and Jerry Orbach.

The CUNY appearance will be a homecoming of sorts for Breslin. The Graduate J-School is housed in the same building on West 40th Street that at one time housed his first employer, the New York Herald Tribune.

Moderator: Tom Robbins
A formidable force in investigative journalism, late of the Village Voice, now investigative reporter-in-residence at CUNY's J-School and a member of the New York Press Club.

This event is free for Press Club members. Please RSVP to Amy Dunkin at CUNY.

Spring will be in the air and attentions turned from slush aplenty to...plenty of slushies! The ideal moment for our first mixer of the new year. You may have seen the TV "live shots" from Blondies Bar on that fateful night not so long ago when the Jets couldn't quite overcome that other team and were again denied a Super Bowl.

Drowned sorrows notwithstanding, the TV coverage spoke volumes about the popularity of Blondies as a great place to meet and greet. Which is exactly the point of Press Club mixers.

Join colleagues and friends for socializing and elbow-bending (no cover, no minimum, no RSVP, sports-talk optional, non-members welcome). Hope to see you there!

An Arab American journalist who lately has been reporting extensively on the Egyptian revolution, Ayman was previously based in Gaza, and he was one of the only international journalists to report from inside Gaza during Israel's Gaza war in 2008-2009, for which his reporting was nominated for an International Emmy Award. He has also reported on sectarian violence in Lebanon, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, human rights abuses in the Gulf and on political and social issues from across the United States.

Before joining Al-Jazeera English, Ayman was a producer with CNN, based for two years in Baghdad, where he covered the immediate aftermath of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. He was the only news producer allowed to observe and report on the U.S. handover of Saddam Hussein to an Iraqi judge, and has also produced exclusive reports from Libya, where he was the first journalist to enter one of Libya's nuclear research facilities. Ayman began his journalism career working for NBC in Washington DC, where he covered the inauguration of president George Bush, the September 11 attacks and the war in Afghanistan. His work on a CNN documentary about daily life in Iraq and various documentaries he has worked on for NBC News have been nominated for the American Emmy awards.

Join us for an evening of Q&A with Ayman Mohyeldin and hear at first hand his experiences watching and reporting as millions in the Middle East rage against oppression.

Moderator:
Stephanie Gaskell, editor/founder The War Report.

Bill Keller's career at the New York Times has covered nearly every editorial base. Bureau chief in Johannesburg and Moscow - his reporting from the Soviet capitol earned him print journalism's highest accolade in 1989, a Pultizer Prize - he has also served the paper as foreign editor and managing editor, Op-Ed columnist, senior writer and columnist for the New York Times Magazine.

It's not known if before taking the executive editor job Keller sensed the impending, profound changes that are now roiling the newspaper business. Prescient or not, Bill Keller finds himself today at the editorial helm of what's considered the national "newspaper of record," in alarmingly treacherous waters, whose rogue waves have mercilessly swamped numerous other publications.

In response, the Times has aggressively engaged the many challenges posed by transformative technologies - either adopting them or when practical, creating them. An "early adopter" of Internet delivery, the Web site of the New York Times is consistently ahead of the curve in nearly all respects when compared with the sites of other conventional media companies. The Times recently announced a foray into E-books which will be available only in digital editions, not in print. (The first Times E-book, Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy has an introductory essay written by Keller whose recent cover story for the New York Times Magazine detailed the paper's handling of the mountains of secret government communiques it received from the Wikileaks organization.)

Don't miss this opportunity for a face-to-face dialogue with Bill Keller on topics of vital interest to journalists and journalism.

Moderator:
Brooke Gladstone, host/managing editor, "On the Media."

Spend an evening of conversation and Q&A with two of New York's premier investigative journalists, both of whom recently decamped the Village Voice.

The poor advertising market and the many watershed changes in how and where people find and consume news has devastated the bottom lines at many news organizations - print publications in particular.

The Village Voice has not been spared the indignities of diminishing revenue and tight-budgets. Consequently, or, as the Voice might once have conspiratorily phrased it, perhaps 'conveniently,' many of the paper's most accomplished contributors have been "lost" in a succession of staff and management shake-ups that include its 2005 sale to the Arizona-based publisher, New Times Media.

Wayne Barrett and Tom Robbins are the latest marquee talents to depart the Voice. Barret, a prolific and tenacious political reporter with almost 40 years at the Voice, was reportedly let go because he was too costly. Robbins, another highly regarded investigative reporter (and winner of several New York Press Club and other awards for journalism) walked away, reportedly in solidarity.

Both men will visit the New York Press Club to talk about their recent experiences and to field questions about the many issues facing journalists, their craft, and their employers at a time when the game for each is fundamentally changing.

Moderator: Juliet Papa, 1010 WINS.

Can a reporter deduct personal cell phone expenses on their tax return? What about that new laptop? Your Press Club membership dues?

Before you file your 2010 return, learn from the experts what sorts of common and not-so-common expenses journalists may claim and other tips for preparing your taxes without raising red flags at the Internal Revenue Service.

Prominent CPAs Alan J. Straus and I. Jay Safier, members of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, will offer guidance and answer questions from both news shop staff members and freelancers.

Moderator: John Lieberman CPA/PFS.

This event is free-of-charge.
Please RSVP to let us know you will attend.

"How'm I doin'?" is a question familiar to a generation of New Yorkers who remember the last financial crisis to nearly cripple the city. It was bellowed with some frequency by the man whose leadership brought New York back from the brink of fiscal calamity.

The New York Press Club welcomes former city councilman, congressman and mayor, Ed Koch, for an evening of Q&A about the current financial crisis, among many other topics.

A tireless champion and promoter of New York City with an impressive portfolio of political accomplishment locally, domestically and internationally, Koch is also an effusive lover of life.

As unpredictable in his personal pursuits as he is in politics, Koch is a best-selling author, actor, movie critic, political commentator, educator, and practicing attorney. Those with long memories will recall that the former mayor stepped into the breach to hold sway over the "People's Court" for two TV seasons when Judge Wapner retired.

Join us for what is sure to be a scintillating and memorable evening.

Moderator: Mitch Lebe, Metro Networks

Free-of-charge for New York Press Club members.
(Please RSVP to let us know you will attend).