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Charter members of the Woman's Press Club of Indiana, now celebrating its centennial, were bound by the tie that unites its members today: an ability to write. They could neither [...]

The Winnipeg Press Club's 125 years of history started in the rough and tumble competition among Winnipeg's newspapers in 1887, and the first history written about the club's early years [...]

The Winnipeg Press Club's annual Beer and Skits show was often imitated by other clubs, but none achieved the longevity of the Winnipeg show, which remains the longest-running satirical revue [...]

The story of the middle years of the Winnipeg Press Club is best told in pictures, provided largely by club members who were noted news photographers. The Winnipeg Press Club [...]

The Secretary of the Russian Union of Journalists holds social and historical circumstances to be more responsible for the problems in the Soviet media than the regime of President Vladimir Putin.

The lawsuit Channing Club vs. The Board of Regents of Texas Tech University, 1970 has been used as a legal precedent in many student press censorship cases. A thorough understanding [...]

Fueled by bitter disputes over the issuance of subpoenas to reporters and operating in the contentious climate of the Watergate Era, an innovative effort in 1970 to aggressively defend the interests of working journalists gave rise to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Governed by working reporters in Washington, the Committee confronted former President Richard Nixon when he attempted to remove documents from the public domain. Shifts in the political climate, deep divisions over a media response to Grenada, and a change in leadership style brought a retreat from 'guerilla' tactics in the mid-1980s. The Committee remains a reliable defender of journalists' rights and a bridge between the working press and a First Amendment Bar created during this period. Feverish activity, inner tensions, and confrontations with both publishers and public officials mark the early years of the RCFP as a significant time in the history of the American press, and also reflect a time of high drama, high stakes, and zealous actors in American political and media history.

Thank you for your membership and support of the Society of Professional Journalists this past year. Because of each of you, SPJ accomplished extraordinary things. Last spring and summer, 500 [...]

PRODUCER KENAN BLOCK WAS GOING TO DO A LIVE interview with then-house Majority Leader Richard A. Gephardt for 'The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour' when he got an urgent call from his boss. [...]

One day in the spring of 1995, staff members of Investigative Reporters & Editors realized that they were looking at a kind of ecological crisis. They were used to rainwater [...]

The rotten-egg smell of reprisal was in the air at a Sept. 24 session of the Missouri Press Association Convention (MPA), when a panel of state legislators attempted to give [...]

Journalism plays an important role in building democratic states and the condition of statelessness deters the prospects for journalism to be viable.

The article explains the relationship of self-determined motivation of students and autonomy support of teachers in a journalism organization. A survey was conducted on 357 student-advisor pairs, the results of which are explained.

The journalism organizations across U.S. have hosted a weeklong celebration, Sunshine Week starting from March 13, 2005 in an effort to spur public discussion about the importance of open government. Coordinator Debra Gersh Hernandez reveals that Sunshine Week's goal is to get people talking about the importance of the Freedom of Information Act and sunshine laws.

The top priority for many news organizations is to report terrorism and a story addressing the subject in connection with particular individuals, charities or businesses can lead to libel suit is described. Even though solid journalism can continue to provide the best defense, attorney review can help identify problems.

IRE training and networking to share techniques and knowledge and to create a web of protection and support that will help build better border investigations are discussed. IRE members need to reach out and connect and learn from each other, exchange information and tips and even collaborate on stories.

The media executives, leading journalists and their guests from many countries gathered in Warsaw, Poland on May 2004 for the International Press Institute (IPI) world congress and 53rd General Assembly. The Warsaw congress proved to be a great success in large parts to the efforts of the Polish host committee and the delegates praise and appreciation was reflected in full house and extensive media coverage.

Wesley Gibbings, president of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM), stated in December 2003 that there exists a basis for anxiety in some territories where official policy tended to offer prescriptions that have potential to undermine the right to publish opinions and information not always in conformity with official or popular views. The ACM statement referred to the government of Jamaica and is considered new anti-terrorism laws that would block the publication of official documents.

The International Federation of Journalist drafted a petition signed with other members of International Freedom of Expression Exchange defending Ethiopian Free Press Journalist's Association. Throughout the period, the Ethiopian government's behavior is noted as an unwanted hostility towards Ethiopian Free Press Journalists' Association that belies its support for press freedom in the country.

International Press Institute World Congress and 52nd General Assembly was held from September 13 to 16, 2003 in Salzburg, Austria, which was attended by some 250 editors, media executives and leading journalists from 45 countries. Attractive social events and excursions in the 'City of Mozart' and surrounding countryside completed the program.