• The 2009 Arizona Press Club Awards Competition for the Best Journalism in Arizona winners list is up! Join us at the annual awards reception, 5:30 p.m. May 15, 2010 at the ASU Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Comm in downtown Phoenix. Deadline to buy tickets passed. Click here for copy of confirmation email (This is not a ticket, you must be registered to enter)

• The infamous 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."
   

• Arizona Press Club awards scholarship The 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.
   

• Rules and entry forms for the 86th annual Awards Competition for the Best Journalism in Arizona are available! 2010 rules and forms will be posted in December.

• Upcoming events/training -  journo events and training in Arizona, send us your events!
   
• Board of directors and press club contact information.
   

• Social Media: Twitter @azpressclub, and search for our groups on LinkedIn and Facebook.
   

• 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.
   

• Job Board - check out journo job openings
   

• Check out 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. The award is presented at the annual awards party.
   
•  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
• 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.

LAST UPDATE:  06/30/2010