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– Kansas City Star receives Pulliam First Amendment Award
– Carolyn Lumsden of the Hartford Courant receives $75,000 Pulliam Fellowship in Editorial Writing
– SPJ Letter to the Editor in support of free press

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– 8/18/18: SPJ Georgia Freelance Fair
– 8/23/18: D.C. Pro freelancers' lunch
– 9/27/18: Excellence in Journalism 2018
– 10/31/18: Deadline: SPJ Chapter Grant Applications
– 12/01/18: Nomination Deadline: Fellows of the Society

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This committee is the watchdog of press freedoms across the nation. It relies upon a network of volunteers in each state organized under Project Sunshine. These SPJ members are on the front lines for assaults to the First Amendment and when lawmakers attempt to restrict the public's access to documents and the government's business. The committee often is called upon to intervene in instances where the media is restricted.

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Danielle McLean
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Bio (click to expand) Danielle McLean is an investigative reporter at ThinkProgress and chair of SPJ’s Freedom of Information Committee. Over the past five years, McLean has worked as an investigative reporter at the Bangor Daily News and has been published in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the MetroWest Daily News, the Milford Daily News, and dozens of weekly Massachusetts publications. She was ranked no. 13 in Scout Somerville magazine’s list of the top 40 local leaders in the City of Somerville, Massachusetts for her reporting at the Somerville Journal newspaper and has won the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s government, transportation, business and economic, and courts and crime reporting awards. McLean previously served as president of SPJ’s New England chapter, pushing for public records reform and a free press. Under her watch, the chapter won SPJ’s 2014-15 Circle of Excellence award for Freedom of Information.

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