• The 2007 contest winners announced at the 2008 Arizona Press Club Banquet

   

• Job Board - check out AZ journo job openings
   

• Arizona Press Club awards scholarships of up to $1,000 each to student reporters, photographers and designers interested in the journalism profession. 2008 scholarships were awarded at the2008 banquet to:  Writing: Lauren LaPage (UA); Amanda Fruzynski (ASU); Jeremy Hawkes (UA). Photo: Michele Bradley (NAU). Design: Perri Collins (ASU).
   
•  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."
   
• Upcoming events/training -  journo events and training in Arizona, send us your events!
   
• 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.
   
• Arizona Press Club awarded grants for Arizona journalists to attend the 2008 Society of Professional Journalists Spring (SPJ) Conference for Region 11 in Tucson, April 11-12, 2008. Visit http://www.spj.org/uarizona/index.html for conference information. The $75 professional grants went to: Hillary Davis, Arizona Daily Sun; Laura Swendseid, The Buckeye Sun; and Candace Hughes, Pinal Ways.  A $75 student grants was awarded to Jennifer Tramm, University of Arizona.
   
• The list of 2007-2008 board members 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.
   
•  Press Club awarded grants for  the 2007 IRE Conference June 8-10 in Phoenix
   
• Press Club's Distinguished Service award honors a lifetime of service and excellence by an Arizona journalist or instructor. Deadline for 2006 nominations have passed Award was presented at the May awards banquet.
   
• 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.
   
• Press club held a free journalism workshop in Flagstaff Oct. 28, 2006
   
• Arizona Press Club bylaws, - in .pdf file
  requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view/print, get it here.
   
• Arizona Press Club Board meeting minutes
  
   
• 2007 contest winners
• 2006 contest winners
• 2005 contest winners
• 2004 contest winners
• 2003 contest winners
• 2002 contest winners
• 2001 contest winners
• 2000 contest winners
• 1999 contest winners
• 1998 contest winners

Winners lists prior to 1998 not available online at this time.

Mailing address:
Arizona Press Club
PO Box 16427
Phoenix, AZ  85011-6427

LAST UPDATE: May 11, 2008