Tuesday, June 25th
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism
219 W 40 Street (7th & 8th)
6:30p.m. socializing
7:00-9:00p.m. program

A discussion of the significant free press issues to emerge from revelations of the governmment's deep dive into private, domestic communication and its blithe fishing expeditions into telephone records at the Associated Press and Fox News.

Panel will include Michael Clemente, executive vice president for news at the Fox News Channel; Gregg Leslie, legal defense director for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; CUNY J-School’s Investigative Journalist in Residence, Tom Robbins, and possibly others.

Free for New York Press Club members, CUNY J-School students and CUNY J-School alums.

Members & CUNY RSVP here | More info and non-member RSVP here.

Trailer from the June 10th presentation dinner for this year's New York Press Club Awards For Journalism at the Water Club in Manhattan. See photos from the event in our online Gallery.

Duplicate award plaques can be ordered from this website. We sincerely thank this year's participants and extend hearty congratulations to this year's winners.

The New York Press Club has contacted the announced mayoral candidates to get their views on press rights. The Press Club Board of Directors believes that First Amendment rights have not been a priority to honor and enforce for recent mayoral administrations and would like to inform Club members and the public of how the current candidates view press rights. Find out more about this initiative and read candidate replies to our press rights questionnaire on the Coalition for the First Amendment page.

LETTER OF PROTEST TO ERIC HOLDER

Additionally, read the letter of protest sent by the Press Club to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the Justice Department's significant breach of First Amendment press protections through its clandestine appropriation of the telephone records of Associated Press reporters in at least three AP bureaus.

Visit the new "For Members" section of our website. Sign up for the New York Press Club Member's Directory; update your contact information; check dues status. You'll also find a growing list of discounts and special offers for members including professional trainng at CUNY J CAMP and Poynter.org's NewsU.

Coming up at CUNY J CAMP (20% discount for members):
Food Writing
Social Media for Journalists
Freelancing Workshops

Coming up at NewsU (25% discount for members):
Building Effective News & Information Websites: jQuery & WordPress
Covering Drones in U.S. Airspace and in Your Community
Remaking Student Media, Inside and Out

Plum Benefits Specials:
The Nance - save almost 40%
Let It Be - as low as $30 a ticket
TOTEM: Cirque du Soleil - tickets from $30

Planning is underway for the Press Club Foundation's 21st annual Conference on Journalism, a one-of-a-kind gathering and a lot of fun!

Volunteers are welcomed to help plan and execute this year's event. If you have or would like such experience, give a shout. join the #NYPC2013 planning committee and help make this year's conference better than ever.

Contact conference chair Eileen AJ Connelly at connelly@nypressclub.org or @AJConn.

The New York Press Club is collecting specific and verifiable information about First Amendment abuses by public safety agencies operating in New York City. Please let us know if you have been improperly obstructed by members of any public safety agency while on assignment or while engaged in spec coverage with intent to publish.

Incidents can be reported on our Coalition for the First Amendment page. The New York Press Club and a number of other organizations representing journalists in New York City formed the Coalition to monitor police-press relations and to document and protest tactics and behavior that contravene First Amendment protections. Each such instance that comes to our attention is posted on the Coalition page.

We urge working journalists who feel they have been subjected to suppressive or unreasonably exclusionary tactics by any government agency to let us know about it.