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The Syracuse Press Club is excited to announce the winner of our prestigious Bill Carey Award for Journalist of the Year. Congratulations to Patrick Lohmann of The Post-Standard and syracuse.com! The club annually recognizes a Journalist of the Year who stands out among peers for contributions to news coverage in a 12-month period (in...
The Syracuse Press Club is thrilled to announce the winner of our 2021 Selwyn Kershaw Professional Standards Award. This award is presented to individuals whose high standards in performing their work serve as an inspiration to others. Congratulations to Jason Murray, who worked at The Post-Standard and syracuse.com for 17 years. A native of...
Syracuse Press Club congratulates the finalists for the 43rd annual Professional Recognition Awards! We celebrate the talented journalists in Central New York and their hard work throughout 2020. We were sad to hold our awards ceremony virtual again this year due to the rising Delta variant cases in Onondaga County. Just a few weeks...
The Syracuse Press Club is proud to announce our second of two 2021 inductees for the SPC Wall of Distinction. This is the club’s highest honor. The Post-Standard and syracuse.com health reporter James T. Mulder has been named to the Syracuse Press Club’s Wall of Distinction! (Photo of Jim Mulder above, by Dennis Nett)...
The Syracuse Press Club is pleased to announce the first of TWO 2021 honorees for the SPC Wall of Distinction. This is the club’s highest honor. NewsChannel 9‘s chief video editor Shawn Wayson has been named to the Syracuse Press Club’s Wall of Distinction! Shawn joined NewsChannel 9 in 1996. Over the last 25...
The Syracuse Press Club is thrilled to announce the first of our 2021 special club honors. We congratulate Kathleen Paice Froio for winning the 2020 Philip A. Hofmann President’s Award for Best News Source! Throughout the pandemic, Kathleen has been a force of nature, connecting local and national media to medical experts at a...
The Syracuse Press Club is pleased to announce the winner of its 2021 A. Brohmann Roth Newcomer Award, based on stellar work by a young reporter in 2020. Congratulations to Ricky Sayer, who was selected from a group of terrific new journalists in the Syracuse area. Ricky, a senior at Syracuse University, is pursuing...
Syracuse Press Club and Syracuse University teamed up to host a virtual event on Jan. 7, 2021, featuring national reporters reflecting on the historic 2020 election. Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News, Amanda Golden of NBC News and Jeff Stein of The Washington Post discussed the end of the Trump presidency, the Capitol riots and...
NOTICE: The Syracuse Press Club Board of Directors at its January 2021 meeting nominated the following slate of candidates as its board for the next year. Pursuant to the club’s bylaws, the slate is published for a month before a vote is held at a board meeting, scheduled for Feb. 2, 2021 at 6 p.m....
The Syracuse Press Club will present a virtual panel featuring top political journalists on Thursday, Jan. 7 at 6 p.m....