Deadline Club

To Tweet or Not to Tweet? (Panel, May 17)

alex — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:05:51 +0000

Media companies are encouraging their journalists to tweet with the objective of boosting readership, listenership and viewership, yet disciplining employees—sometimes severely—when management disapproves of a tweet. Where’s the line? What’s a toxic tweet? Is tweeting for the birds? Are media companies hypocritical or digitally savvy? Come hear our panel of experts from the worlds of social media, journalism, academia and law as they discuss these issues at the New York Newspaper Guild on Thursday, May 17, 2012. The panel will be preceded by a brief reception at 6:30 p.m., and will start at 7:00 p.m. sharp.

Finalists in our 2012 Annual Awards Contest

mheule — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:00:49 +0000

The Deadline Club is pleased to announce the finalists in the 2012 Annual Awards Contest. This was our most competitive contest in living memory, with nearly 440 entries from more than 70 media outlets, a huge increase from previous years. The finalists work in a broad swath of media, including newspapers, magazines, radio, television and digital media outlets. Many smaller, independent or Internet-only media are among the finalists.

Steve Kroft to Headline The Deadline Club Annual Awards Dinner

alex — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:10:41 +0000

In this unpredictable presidential election year, The Deadline Club is pleased to announce that Steve Kroft of CBS’s 60 Minutes will headline our Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf on June 4. One of the country’s leading political television correspondents, he scored the first sit-down interview with President Barack Obama after his election and the only interview with the president after the killing of Osama bin Laden last year. Kroft will discuss the 2012 election, the importance of television political reporting, and how political coverage in general is changing in a conversation with Stephen Shepard, the founding dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. Shepard is a veteran editor at a string of magazines, including BusinessWeek, Newsweek and the Saturday Review. The conversation will be followed with a question and answer session with the audience. Buy tickets now!

The Deadline Club Meets with NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly

alex — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 23:40:15 +0000

Members of The Deadline Club’s governing board met recently with New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his chief spokesman, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, to discuss relations between the city’s 35,000 uniformed police officers and the working press. In a wide ranging, 90-minute conversation, they discussed the arrests of journalists during the coverage of Occupy Wall Street, the training and instruction received by police officers on working with reporters, and the department’s public information policies and press credentialing process. The meeting at NYPD headquarters was requested by The Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, to address lingering tensions since the arrests of journalists when protesters were cleared from New York’s Zuccotti Park last fall. Board members in attendance included President J. Alex Tarquinio, Assistant Treasurer Colin DeVries, and Executive Council Members Howard Goldberg and Mark J. Prendergast. The Deadline Club delegation impressed upon the commissioner that our goal was to ensure that journalists have access to cover and bear witness to all events in the city’s public space, especially when they involve constitutionally protected First Amendment activities such as the right to assembly and the right to free speech. That particularly applies when [...]

The Deadline Club Awards Contest is Closed

alex — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:14:39 +0000

The entry period for our awards contest ended at 11:59pm on Friday, February 24. Entries in all 32 categories must have been submitted to our website by this deadline. Check back here periodically for updates about the Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria on June 4, where we will announce the winners and present them with Rubes, our unique statuettes designed by the “dean of American cartoonists” Rube Goldberg in 1968. The Deadline Club will spend the next month carefully reviewing submissions to select the finalists in our annual awards contest, which honors excellence in New York journalism. The finalists will be announced in April. The 2012 contest covers work that was published or broadcast in 2011. The Deadline Club added new categories to our awards contest this year, including: Magazine Profile, Magazine Personal Service, Reporting by Independent Digital Media, Headline Writing and Social Media. Digital media outlets were eligible to enter many more categories this year.

Charges dropped against photojournalist arrested while covering Occupy Wall Street

alex — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:44:10 +0000

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Charges have been dropped against Douglas Higginbotham, a New York City freelance photojournalist who challenged his arrest during the Occupy Wall Street protests with help from The Deadline Club and the Society of Professional Journalists. On Friday, the court dismissed the disorderly conduct charge, which was the only one against him, “in the interest of justice,” says Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, who filed a motion to dismiss the case.

Students, sharpen your pencils! The Deadline Club has raised scholarships to $2,500

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:13:57 +0000

The Deadline Club has a long tradition of supporting local journalism students. This year, the club will award at least two scholarships of $2,000 each to worthy undergraduate and graduate students in New York. Winners will be honored at the club’s Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence, student performance in journalism, career potential, and service to SPJ or commitment to its mission. Journalism and communications professionals will judge the entries. Who's eligible? Any undergraduate and graduate students majoring in print or broadcast journalism, new media or communications at six schools in the New York area with SPJ campus chapters (CUNY, Columbia University, Fordham University, Long Island University, New York University and St. John’s University), as well as current student members of The Deadline Club majoring in one of these fields. Students must have completed one year of journalism study to qualify. Click HERE for more information and to download an application form.

Sponsorship opportunities for our Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:12:35 +0000

The Deadline Club is pleased to announce the opportunity to sponsor our Annual Awards Dinner, which will take place this year at the historic Waldorf-Astoria on June 4. The club’s distinctive Rube statuette—designed by the late American artist Rube Goldberg—will be awarded to leading reporters working in television, radio, newspapers, magazines, digital and social media. The audience will include over two hundred journalists, newsmakers and personalities who gather each year to honor excellence in journalism.

Four levels of sponsorship are available at this time: Lead Sponsor, Benefactors, Supporters and Friends. For information on how you can be an integral part of this event, please send an email to president@deadlineclub.org. A complete package of information will be provided. Please note, the Deadline Club is a nonprofit organization.

Spring SPJ Regional Conference on Long Island (March 23-24)

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:11:42 +0000

Come mingle with fellow journalists and journalism students at Stony Brook at the Society of Professional Journalists’ spring conference, which will tackle issues ranging from media suppression at scenes of breaking news to how to keep up with the industry’s fast-changing demands. Speakers will be coming from The New York Times, The Daily News, Newsday, FOX CT, The Boston Globe, Time, News 12 Networks, FiOs1, Patch.com, The Bergen Record and Sheapsheadbites.com, among others. The conference will also include sessions on mobile journalism, social media, covering crime scenes, hyper local news and similar topics. There will be practical workshops writing for TV, narrative writing and job-hunting. Hurry, early-bird pricing expires on March 1. Discounts for SPJ members and students apply. For more information, and to register for the conference, visit http://www.spjr1c.org/.

Back by popular demand: The Deadline Club’s annual FOIL workshop (March 6)

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:11:35 +0000

On March 6, learn how to pursue government secrets from the preeminent authority on New York State’s Freedom of Information Law, better known as FOIL. Robert Freeman, Executive Director of the New York State Committee on Open Government, will make his annual pilgrimage to the New York Newspaper Guild office in Times Square to give a workshop about how to pursue government records in the Empire State. This event is free for members of The Deadline Club. Non-members may purchase tickets for $10. Refreshments will be served at a reception, beginning at 6:30pm. Freeman will begin the workshop at 7pm, followed by a lively question-and-answer session. This is always one of the club’s most popular events of the year, so RSVP soon here.