Welcome to the Deadline Club
NYC Chapter, Society of Professional Journalists
As one of SPJ’s largest chapters, serving New York-area journalists since 1925, the Deadline Club is dedicated to perpetuating freedom of the press, encouraging the highest standards of excellence and ethics and fostering career development through its awards, scholarships, workshops, talks and social networking mixers.
Join SPJ and the Deadline Club or sign up for invites and updates.
Pitch Posse for Early Career Journalists
Monday, February 17 · 7:00 p.m. EST
Got a story idea you’re itching to report and write? Make it happen with the Deadline Club’s early career Pitch Posse — a vibrant gathering for emerging journalists to workshop pitches, share ideas, connect and get feedback and advice from experienced journalists.
With our first meeting Feb. 17, the Pitch Posse will gather once a month, with each session featuring a special guest from the industry. And going forward, Deadline Club Pitch Posse members will have the opportunity to visit newsrooms and pitch editors. Come lift a pen and glass.
SPJ members join the Deadline Club at no extra cost
Registration is open for all sessions in 2025. Click on the link below to view the available dates and sign up today!
Exclusive member benefit
“Media Law Office Hours” with attorney Matthew Leish is a pro bono service to all Deadline Club members. If you aren’t already a member, visit spj.org/join to sign up and select “New York Deadline Club” as your chapter.
Taking place the first Monday of every Month over Zoom, the open group session allows journalists with legal questions to help find answers on issues related to the First Amendment, Freedom of Information, copyright, defamation, or other media law matters.
Missed an event?
Visit our YouTube page for a full archive of Deadline Club events, including our two most recent: Navigating Your Next Steps as a Mid-Career Journalist, a talk with editorial experts and recruiters from Insider’s Manhattan headquarters, and Extract the Facts, where journalists shared tips, strategies and story-generating tactics on getting access to federal and New York public records.
About the club
Leadership
Officers, advisory and executive councils
Recognition
The Hall of Fame luncheon
History
Established in 1925
Why join the Deadline Club?
I joined as a grad student. Club leaders had organized talks at my school, welcoming me to events and making introductions at networking events and panels. At regional and national conferences, I developed skills, built my network and made new friends. Now, as a professional journalist, I’ve joined the club board to give back to a community that has given me so much.
Kimberly Chin
I joined the Deadline Club around 1990, at the dawn of a marketing-driven post-truth news era. Like today, it posed new challenges to some fundamental principles of our trade. Many rank-and-file journos became discouraged, but I saw the Deadline Club had our backs in ways that employers couldn’t. I was elected President in 1992 and never looked back.
Steve Dunlop
It’s rewarding to be involved in a group where everyone has one single concern: supporting and advocating for journalism, and seeing it’s impact on the community. Deadline Club members come from all work backgrounds in media and span all ages, but all are enthusiastic about being involved. It feels good to put in the effort of nurturing our profession.
