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Syracuse Press Club congratulates the finalists for the 42 Annual Professional Recognition Awards. The coronavirus pandemic has upended or postponed life as we know it — including the awards banquet scheduled for April 18. We plan to host a virtual award presentation soon, where winners can tune in to learn their first, second and...
The coronavirus pandemic is putting journalists to the test. A nonstop news cycle filled with tragedy after tragedy undoubtedly takes an emotional toll on the people behind the bylines, cameras and news reports that are so critical to communities coping with this unprecedented public health and economic crisis. Journalists, too, need help dealing with...
The Syracuse Press Club is pleased to announce Al Vieira of the Cortland Standard as the 2020 winner of the Selwyn Kershaw Professional Standards Award. This award is presented to individuals whose high standards in performing their work serve as an inspiration to others. Today, Al is a copy editor at the Cortland Standard, where he...
Thank you to Lisa Dell and her office for setting a fine example for news sources across Central New York. ...
It is with great regret that we must postpone our 42nd Syracuse Press Club awards banquet, scheduled for Saturday, April 18, 2020. Our board of directors has been monitoring the evolving COVID-19 crisis and the directives from public health experts urging social distancing. It is clear to us the banquet cannot take place. Our...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — We’d like to take a moment to applaud local journalists for their coverage of COVID-19 and its effects on our coverage areas across Central New York. This month, we watched our local journalists in print, radio, broadcast and digital news doggedly serving their communities with constant updates from schools, hospitals, government...
About our Panelists Sean Kirst is an award-winning journalist who has been writing in Upstate New York for more than 45 years. A native of Dunkirk, N.Y. (near Buffalo), Kirst worked at Syracuse newspapers for 27 years, most of that time as a columnist for The Post-Standard. He is the recipient of many journalism...
The Syracuse Press Club will hold a professional development panel on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020, called “Political Reporting in the Trump Era.” Syracuse University professor Joel Kaplan, Associate Dean for Professional Graduate Studies at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will moderate a panel of three national political reporters to discuss how they...
The fourth-ever Syracuse Press Club award for publicagencies that fail to be transparent (Updated April 6, 2021) SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The Syracuse Press Club is unhappy to announce the recipient of its fourth-ever Award – an award for a public agency that mostundermines the public’s right to know. SPC has selected the Oneida...
The Syracuse Press Club thanks all the entrants to this year’s 41st Annual Professional Recognition Awards Contest. Judges from across America reviewed the entries and awarded first, second and third-place winners in numerous competitions in TV, radio, print, online and college journalism categories. Our awards were handed out at our banquet on Saturday, April...