PHOTO BY CLAIRE REGAN, DEADLINE CLUB BOARD

Welcome to the Deadline Club

NYC Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists

As one of SPJ’s largest chapters, serving New York-area journalists since 1925, the Deadline Club is dedicated to perpetuating freedom of the press, encouraging the highest standards of excellence and ethics and fostering career development through its awards, scholarships, workshops, talks and social networking mixers.

Join SPJ and the Deadline Club or sign up for invites and updates. 

Upcoming Event

IRE + Deadline Club Meetup

Wednesday, April 3, 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.​

Come join Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and the Deadline Club on April 3 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at The Houndstooth Pub in midtown Manhattan, 520 8th Ave. between W. 36th and W. 37th Sts. Enjoy the cash bar and let’s mingle and talk about journalism. Reunite with old friends and meet some new ones.

Raise Your Voice to Stop the NYPD Radio Blackout

The NYPD has started encrypting the radio transmissions that journalists have used for 90 years to get tips about crime scenes, accidents and disasters. It plans to complete the radio blackout by the end of the year and refuses to say whether it will enable journalists to have access to the encrypted transmissions.

The Deadline Club has joined with several other press groups in the recently formed New York Media Consortium to make our case for radio access. After an unproductive meeting with NYPD officials last year, the Consortium has turned its attention to the New York City Council in an effort to win legislation that assures that journalists will continue to have real-time access to police radio transmissions.

We’re asking all journalists and concerned citizens to write to their City Council member. 

SPJ members join the Deadline Club at no extra cost

If you are not already an SPJ member, join at spj.org/join.asp and select New York Deadline Club as your chapter. Members receive member discounts on events year-round and exclusive access to Salmagundi in Greenwich Village.

Registration is open for all sessions in 2024. Click on the link below to view the available dates and sign up today!

Exclusive member benefit

“Media Law Office Hours” with attorney Matthew Leish is a pro bono service to all Deadline Club members. If you aren’t already a member, visit spj.org/join to sign up and select “New York Deadline Club” as your chapter.

Taking place the first Monday of every Month over Zoom, the open group session allows journalists with legal questions to help find answers on issues related to the First Amendment, Freedom of Information, copyright, defamation, or other media law matters.

Missed an event?

Visit our YouTube page for a full archive of Deadline Club events, including our two most recent: Navigating Your Next Steps as a Mid-Career Journalist, a talk with editorial experts and recruiters from Insider’s Manhattan headquarters, and Extract the Facts, where journalists shared tips, strategies and story-generating tactics on getting access to federal and New York public records. 

About the club

Leadership

Officers, advisory and executive councils

Recognition

The Hall of Fame luncheon

History

Established in 1925

Why join the Deadline Club?

I joined as a grad student. Club leaders had organized talks at my school, welcoming me to events and making introductions at networking events and panels. At regional and national conferences, I developed skills, built my network and made new friends. Now, as a professional journalist, I’ve joined the club board to give back to a community that has given me so much.

Kimberly Chin

Reporter
The Wall Street Journal

I joined the Deadline Club around 1990, at the dawn of a marketing-driven post-truth news era. Like today, it posed new challenges to some fundamental principles of our trade. Many rank-and-file journos became discouraged, but I saw the Deadline Club had our backs in ways that employers couldn’t. I was elected President in 1992 and never looked back.

Steve Dunlop

Former anchor/correspondent
Fox and CBS News

It’s rewarding to be involved in a group where everyone has one single concern: supporting and advocating for journalism, and seeing it’s impact on the community. Deadline Club members come from all work backgrounds in media and span all ages, but all are enthusiastic about being involved. It feels good to put in the effort of nurturing our profession.

Daniel Roberts

Editor-in-chief
Decrypt Media

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