- Call for Brick
Wall and Sledgehammer award nominations! Deadline: April 12.
The Brick Wall Award
—
nobody wants one, yet several public agencies and officials have earned this uncoveted award for brazenly ignoring the state's public records law. In
2008, press club announced a new honor meet the winner of the first-ever
"Sledgehammer Award."
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Arizona
Press Club awards scholarship Press Club awards scholarships of up to $1,000 each to
college student
reporters, photographers and designers studying journalism at an
Arizona two- or four-year college. 2010 scholarship applications must be
received April 5, 2010!
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Rules
and entry forms for the 86th annual Awards Competition for the Best
Journalism in Arizona are available! Early deadline alert: Entries must be
postmarked by Jan. 20, 2010!
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Upcoming events/training -
journo events and training in Arizona, send us your events!
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Follow the press club on Twitter, @azpressclub, and join our groups on
LinkedIn and
Facebook
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Are you on our
e-mail list? If you receive e-mails from
bulletin@azpressclub.org you are.
if not- email
bulletin@azpressclub.org. Our e-mail list is confidential.
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Job Board - check out journo job openings
- Check out the newly designed Web site for the
Arizona First Amendment
Coalition! Journalists can call the coalition's hotline
for free advice on Arizona's Open Meeting and Public Records laws. Call
(602) 351-8000 and ask for the First Amendment Coalition hotline. The press
club has six seats on the coalition's board of directors.
- The Arizona Press Club's Distinguished
Service award honors a lifetime of service and excellence by an Arizona
journalist or instructor. Deadline for 2008 nominations have passed. The award
is presented at the annual awards
party.
- The list of
2009-10 board of directors and contact
information.
- The sixth edition of the
Arizona Reporter's Handbook on Media Law
is now available. Perkins Coie Brown & Bain attorney Dan Barr led a team
of 10 attorneys in Phoenix and Seattle in revising the
Handbook, which was last
released in 2002. Topics covered include access to court proceedings, public
records, open meetings, and public and private places. The new
Handbook also addresses
subpoenas issued against the news media, search warrants, gag orders, prior
restraints, libel, invasion of privacy, promises of confidentiality to
sources, copyright and trademark issues, and Section 230 immunity for online
content. The Arizona Reporter's Handbook
on Media Law is being sold for $5 a copy. To order a copy, please
contact Sharon Neilson at 602-351-8014 or
SNeilson@perkinscoie.com. For more information, please contact
Dan Barr at 602-351-8085.
- Arizona Press Club bylaws, - in .pdf
file
requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view/print,
get
it here.
- Mailing
address:
Arizona Press Club
PO Box 16427
Phoenix, AZ 85011-6427
- 2008 contest winners
- 2007 contest winners
- 2006
contest winners
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2005 contest
winners
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2004
contest winners
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2003 contest
winners
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2002 contest
winners
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2001 contest winners
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2000 contest winners
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1999 contest winners
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1998 contest winners
Winners lists prior to
1998 not available online at this time.
LAST UPDATE:
March 29, 2010 |
