Our annual journalism contest is open!

Our annual journalism contest is open!

The Deadline Club’s prestigious journalism contest is now accepting entries. The 2012 contest covers work that was published or broadcast in 2011. Entrants must be employees of or freelancers for news organizations with an office within a 50-mile radius of Columbus Circle in New York City. Entries in all categories will be accepted electronically through our website this year. To register and log in to the contest entry site, click HERE. You will also find descriptions of the 32 categories in the 2012 contest, including several new categories for magazines, digital news and social media. If you are having any difficulty with the contest site, or have general questions that are not covered in the guidelines on this site, contact us at awards@deadlineclub.org.

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Celebrate Groundhog’s Day with The Deadline Club and First Thursday

This Groundhog’s Day, why be caught in a rut? Instead, raise a glass with The Deadline Club and First Thursday, two convivial journalism groups in Manhattan. Gather with us at Playwright’s Tavern on 49th Street, between Broadway and 7th Avenue, in the heart of Times Square. If it feels like a repetition of past events, you might be onto something. Both groups have mingled in this watering hole before. But just like the 1993 movie with Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell, we’ve learned that you aren’t necessarily doomed to repeat the past. This will be the first media mixer co-hosted by both groups. Although if it’s a blast, we might repeat, and repeat, and repeat...

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Whodunit? Mystery writers reveal their secrets to The Deadline Club

Whodunit? Mystery writers reveal their secrets to The Deadline Club

More than 60 Deadline Club members and their guests packed the main art gallery of the Salmagundi Club on January 11 to hear our distinguished panel of journalists who have made the leap to published mystery novelists. The event was co-hosted by the Mystery Writers of America and the Salmagundi Club.

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Deadline Club and SPJ Support Arrested Photojournalist Douglas Higginbotham

NEW YORK, N.Y. — The Society of Professional Journalists’ Legal Defense Fund has granted New York photojournalist Douglas Higginbotham $1,000 to challenge his arrest by the New York Police Department while covering the Occupy Wall Street protest in Manhattan. Higgingbotham reached out for help from The Deadline Club, which is the New York Chapter of The Society of Professional Journalists, after he was arrested while covering the police raid of the protesters’ encampment in Zuccotti Park on November 15, 2011. The club immediately put him in touch with SPJ’s Legal Defense Fund, which provides aid to journalists facing litigation stemming from their work while reporting the news and defending the public’s right to know. During the November raid, Higginbotham, a freelance cameraman working for TV New Zealand, climbed atop a telephone booth to get a better shot of events. Video of the incident shows that riot police told him to climb down. As he was doing so, police pulled him to the sidewalk, forcefully took his camera, handcuffed him and held him in jail for several hours. In the process, his cell phone and camera, which he describes as his “livelihood,” were broken. Higginbotham, who has been charged with disorderly

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NYPD commissioner orders cops to let media do their jobs

Ray Kelly, after meeting with representatives of the city's leading media organizations, has ordered officers not to "unreasonably interfere" with journalists at breaking news events, according to the Associated Press.

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Deadline Club joins coalition to monitor media treatment by NYPD

The Deadline Club and the Deadline Club Foundation has joined the New York Press Club and other journalism organizations in sending a message to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly that future police conduct will be monitored.

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