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An Evening With Ayman Mohyeldin of Al Jazeera English

Monday, March 21st
7:00PM to 9:00PM
CUNY Macaulay Honors College
35 W 67Street (CPW & Columbus)
Note: Event Location Differs From Our Usual

Cairo-based Ayman Mohyeldin - whose reports riveted viewers of the Al Jazeera English news service during the popular uprising that brought down Hosni Mubarak - visits the New York Press Club to share his experiences as a reporter in the region and to talk about the unrest that is cascading across other kingdoms and countries of Africa and the Middle East.

An Arab American journalist who lately has been reporting extensively on the Egyptian revolution, Ayman was previously based in Gaza and he was one of the only international journalists to report from there during the Gaza War in 2008-2009. He has also reported on other aspects of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, sectarian violence in Lebanon, human rights abuses in the Gulf and on political and social issues from across the United States.

Join us for an evening of Q&A with Ayman Mohyeldin and hear at first hand his experiences watching and reporting as millions in the Middle East and Africa rage against the status quo.

Moderator: Stephanie Gaskell founder/editor, The War Report.

Free admission for NY Press Club members (RSVP please).
Non-members: $10, Students: $5. Visit our Website  for more information and to reserve.

2011 J-Awards Dinner Set For June 13th; Entries Close April 15th

2011 Journalism Awards Presentation Dinner
Monday, June 13th
The Water Club, Manhattan

Entries remain open until April 15th for this year's New York Press Club Awards for Journalism.

Categories, rules, and entry procedures can be found on the Awards page of our website where a downloadable document containing information about this year's competition can also be found.

The presentations for 2011 take place Monday evening, June 13th, at perennial favorite, The Water Club (on the East River at 30th Street.) Reservations can be made on our Web site starting in a week or so.

An enduring tradition in New York media, the annual New York Press Club Awards for Journalism honor excellence in the craft by writers, reporters, editors, producers, shooters and multimediographers.

View Videos of Press Club Special Events

If you were not able to attend recent New York Press Club events featuring special guests, videos of the proceedings are now viewable on our Web site.

Among the notables whose appearances can be seen: Bill Keller, Executive Editor of the New York Times whose remarks about Fox News created a bit of a ripple in the blogsphere last week; Mayor Ed Koch who touched on many topics having to do with current and past events in New York City; Governor (at the time) David Paterson who talked about his administration in its final days; Ken Auletta whose insights into the media business are always enlightening.

The videos and photos from most New York Press Club events can be found in our Multimedia Gallery.

The Constant Columnist: As Inevitable as the Met and Taxes

The Tax Man cometh and our newest Constant Columnist, Julian Block, has contributed a number of pertinent columns about how journalists might best contend with the often demanding annual tax ritual.

Block is an attorney, writer, and former IRS special agent whose down-to-earth prose and knowledgeable tips should help ease the burden of filling-in the many blanks on your 1040.

Beatrice Williams-Rude - whose cultural reporting enlivens our Constant Columnist page (ditto the pages of Broadway After Dark and other outlets) - is on a tear about a taxing matter of another kind: the "re-writes" of perfectly competent classic operas by ambitious creative types at the Met. (PS - don't get Beatrice started about Faust.) Find out more about all of this in Beatrice's piece, "The Met, Opera and 'Concept Directors.'"

Everyone is invited to become a Constant Columnist. Submissions of all kinds are welcomed - instructional, observational, reflective, reactive - almost any kind of prose or poetry is likely to be appropriate. The goal is to offer a potpourri comprised of many voices and disparate topics. Why let that brilliant rumination on the meaning of life moulder? Send it in! (mailbox@nypressclub.org).

The Constant Columnist can be found on our Web site.

New York Press Club Spring "Mixer" at Blondies Bar

Tuesday, April 5th
6:00PM - 9:00PM
Blondies Bar
212 W 79 (B'way & Amsterdam)

Our first mixer of the year will take place in early April at a West Side watering hole popular with the sporting set.

But sports is by no means at the top of the agenda so don't worry if you're not sure which local football team missed the Super Bowl by one game. The idea is to mix & mingle.

Join colleagues and friends for socializing and elbow-bending on April 5th (no cover, no minimum, no RSVP, sports-talk optional, non-members welcome). Hope to see you there!

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