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Recent Press Club Events
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2021 Media Persons of the Year Kick-Off Reception
After a long delay due to Covid restrictions, your Press Club board was delighted to hold an intimate reception honoring our 2021 Media Persons of the Year honorees on April 1 in the art gallery of Saks Fifth Avenue in Plaza Frontenac. This year’s gala will be chaired by Joan Berkman and Peggy Barnhart. The gala will be held later this year and the date will be announced soon.
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Beauty Buzz 2021 was a smashing success!Co-Chairs Miran Halen and Phyllis Langsdorf and Advisory Chair Alice Handelman knocked it out of the park!!We raised more than $17,000 to fund student journalism scholarships and enterprise grants for working journalists to spotlight marginalized issues in our region.Click Here to see more pictures from the event. |
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Our IN THE NOW with Major Garrett
Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
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Speaker: Major Garrett Garrett shared his analysis of the issues of our time and his thoughts on journalism and how the industry has changed in his lifetime. His remarks were followed by a Q&A curated by Charlie Brennan, the host of The Charlie Brennan Show with Amy Marxkors on KMOX and the Provocateur of Donnybrook on NinePBS. In addition, Garrett was presented with the St. Louis Press Club's 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in journalism throughout his distinguished career in news broadcasting. Donations support the Press Club’s ongoing scholarships and enterprise grants efforts — including offsetting costs of programs like this one. Click Here to donate. |
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Press Club’s Zoom Annual Meeting
6:30 p.m. Monday, December 21
Since we can’t gather in person this year, I hope you will be able to participate by Zoom in our annual business meeting as outlined in our bylaws for the purpose of electing board members for term 2021-2023, as well as hearing the president’s 2020 year-in-review report and the announcement of the Catfish and President’s Above and Beyond awards.
Board of Director slate for 2021-23 term: Ellen Futterman, Richard Gavatin, Kent Martin, Trish Muyco-Tobin, Kedra Tolson, Karyn Williams
St. Louis Press Club's 2020 VIRTUAL Beauty Buzz
Saturday, September 12
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Special thanks to our In-Kind donors, Miran Halen and CraigCurrieSTL
To Be Rescheduled:
Press Club's Friday Lunch Forum on
“The Fight for Women's Suffrage – Hard
Lessons Learned”
The fight for Women’s Suffrage in the US was long and arduous. Passage of the 19th Amendment on Aug 26, 1920 was an epic achievement, yet the journey was fraught with racism and divisive politics. What allowed the final victory to occur? Why did women’s suffrage groups choose strategies that marginalized black women, telling noted black women leaders to “walk in the back of the parade”? Do we still face these hard choices in our strategies to build coalitions and advance causes in today’s political world?
Two panelists and a moderator will share the history of this great achievement along with perspectives that will help us make better strategic choices in today’s political arena.
Panelists will take questions and then together address the question: “How can we learn to strategize stronger partnerships through these hard lessons?”
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Margot McMillen, author of “The Golden Lane: How Missouri Women Gained the Vote and Changed History” will speak on: What worked to pass the Nineteenth Amendment? Lessons learned from successful coalitions in Missouri, including the Golden Lane March in 1916. |
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Louise Wilkerson, Co-President, League of Women Voters of Metro St. Louis & Past President, St. Louis Metropolitan Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, 2010-2014 What were the hard lessons leading up to and then following in the 100 years since passage? Recounting the history of racism & segregation in the suffrage movement, the rise of black women's groups/ clubs and the many challenges to voters’ rights throughout the decades. How adversaries of equal suffrage find ways to divide us. |
Events Co-Sponsored by:
American Association of University Women
St. Louis and League of Women Voters of Metro St. Louis
Press Club’s Zoom Annual Meeting
6:30 p.m. Monday, December 21
St. Louis Press Club Recognizes Exceptional Journalists with Awards
Two of the St. Louis region's exceptional media professionals were honored with awards by the St. Louis Press Club at its annual meeting.
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Jessica Z. Brown Billhymer received St. Louis Press Club's highest honor: The Catfish Award, which is awarded to a member who has made exceptional contributions to the field of communications and to the Press Club. Brown is a longtime media communications professional and community volunteer. Her numerous achievements include: President and founder of Gateway Media Literacy Partners, Inc.; Officer, Digital International Media Literacy Education, Inc.; full adjunct professor in the School of Communications at Webster University, and; an active supporter of the Gateway Journalism Review. She is an active and staunch promoter of sustained media literacy education for greater participatory civic education and agency among primary and secondary education students. |
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Jasmine Huda received the Press Club's "President's Above-and-Beyond" award, which is given to an individual or organization that has gone above-and-beyond to provide a service or support for the St. Louis Press Club. Huda has served as Mistress of Ceremonies for the Club's annual Beauty Buzz scholarship fundraising event at Neiman Marcus for the last four years -- an event that draws more than 150 guests each year. She is a popular St. Louis television news anchor and reporter at KTVI, Channel 2, and a former member of the St. Louis Press Club's Board of Directors. |
Board of Director slate for 2021-23 term: Ellen Futterman, Richard Gavatin, Kent Martin, Kedra Tolson, Karyn Williams
St. Louis Press Club's 2020 VIRTUAL Beauty Buzz
Saturday, September 12
View Your Beauty Buzz Photos Here
CLICK HERE FOR MORE
Miran Halen Co-Chair Beauty Buzz Film Producer/Director/Editor Photographer/Videographer
Craig Currie STL Editor/Videographer/Photographer
Special thanks to our In-Kind donors, Miran Halen and CraigCurrieSTL
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When Getting the Story Isn't the Whole Story – Reporting on TraumaSaturday, February 22 A free workshop for members of the media, journalism students and others on the impact of violence and trauma, exploring how they report stories and the way they cope with its effects on their own lives. Speaker: University of Missouri – Columbia Prof. Katherine Reed, who often teaches about journalism and trauma. Among the topics she'll explore * How do members of the media stay safe when covering conflict? RSVPs appreciated at info@stlpressclub.org, so we have an estimate on how many will attend. |
Press Club's Friday Lunch Forum on
“PAY EQUITY”
Norman Probstein Golf Clubhouse in Forest Park
6141 Lagoon Dr. 63112
A discussion concerning, why is there a pay gap and
why is it so slow to change? Learn about Sen. Karla May’s bill (SB682) presently filed in the Missouri Senate.
Read the text at: SB682 text
The panel included:
Sen. Karla May
Lynne Roney and Malaika Horne of the American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Leslie Greenman of The Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis
The League of Women Voters of Metro St. Louis is also a co-sponsor of this event. This forum featured a buffet lunch.
$20 for Press
Club members
$25 for all others
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Presented by: St. Louis Press Club
Co-Sponsored by: American Association of University Women
Women’s Foundation of Greater St. Louis
League of Women Voters
"Pictures Worth 1,000 Words"
Thursday, January 16th, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Missouri History Museum, Auditorium, 5700 Lindell Blvd.
Sponsored by: The International Photography Hall of Fame and St. Louis Press Club
Panelists: David Carson: St. Louis Post Dispatch
J.B Forbes: St. Louis Post Dispatch/Pulitzer Winner
Dan Donovan: St. Louis Post Dispatch/Sports
Christian Gooden: St. Louis Post Dispatch
Moderator: Patty Wente, CEO and President, International Photography Hall of Fame
Four of our community's finest photojournalists shared some of their most visually compelling photographs and the stories behind them at last night's "Pictures Worth 1,000 Words" program at the Missouri History Museum, which was co-sponsored by the St. Louis Press Club and International Photojournalism Hall of Fame. J.B. Forbes, Christian Gooden, Dan Donovan and David Carson were the guest panelists for the program moderated by Patricia Wente. The event was held in conjunction with the museum's "Worth a 1,000 Words" exhibit. The program highlighted the importance of photojournalism in today's age of easy photo manipulation. True photojournalists capture moments that tell a story with their photographs that are both unstaged and unchanged.
Click Here for the photo album.
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Photojournalist and panelist, Dan Donovan, St. Louis Press Club Annual Meeting and Dinner
December 18, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.
Missouri Athletic Club - Downtown
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Featuring Guest Speaker
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He was honored with Overseas Press Club citations for his coverage of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake and the 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev Summit. Maer was a longtime member of the White House Correspondents’ Association and served as a board member, secretary and treasurer.
Prior to his network career, Maer worked as a reporter at radio stations in the St. Louis area, starting at hometown station WGNU and WIBV Belleville, KSHE and WEW. From St. Louis, Maer went on to stations in Nashville and Atlanta.
A native of Granite City, Illinois, Maer is a graduate of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. He was twice chosen as the school's commencement speaker and was the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. He was also inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame. Maer has served as a guest journalism lecturer at The George Washington University, American University and the University of Mary Washington. He was a Visiting Fellow on “The Presidency and the Press” at The Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication at New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce University.
Maer and his wife Elizabeth Doyne Maer take pride in their two grown children and five grandchildren.
St. Louis Press Club’s
2019 MEDIA PERSONS OF THE YEAR GALA
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St. Louis Press Club's Beauty Buzz Raises Scholarship Funds
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Sylvester Brown, Jr.
"When Journalists Listen: The Story of a Word Warrior."
July 26
Rendezvous Room of the Missouri Athletic Club-downtown,
407 Washington
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At 5:30 p.m on July 26, Press Club hosted Sylvester Brown, Jr. – author, community activist and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter – who spoke about "When Journalists Listen: The Story of a Word Warrior." Prior to Brown's position with the Post, he published Take Five Magazine, an investigative regional publication, for 15 years. The publication received more than 30 awards for its investigative series, general reporting and Sylvester’s political and social commentaries. Brown also founded the Sweet Potato Project, a St. Louis-based entrepreneurial and agricultural program for urban youth. This project inspired his recently released book, “When We Listen: Recognizing the Potential of Urban Youth.” Guests enjoyed wine, soda and appetizers |
The Summer Courier is HERE!
Recent Speakers at St. Louis County Library "In Conversation" Author Series sponsored by St. Louis Press Club
For Press Club Reserved Seats, email info@stlpressclub.org
Click here to learn about our collaboration with the library's author series.
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July 30, 2019 St. Louis County Library Headquarters In this engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War, John McManus, one of our most highly acclaimed historians of World War II, takes readers from Pearl Harbor, a rude awakening for a military woefully unprepared for war, to Makin, a sliver of coral reef where the Army was tested against the increasingly desperate Japanese. In between were nearly two years of punishing combat as the Army transformed from an undertrained garrison force into an unstoppable juggernaut, and America evolved from an inward-looking nation into a global superpower. Presented by the ‘Buzz’ Westfall Favorite Author Series. Books will be available for purchase at the event from the Novel Neighbor. |
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July 9, 2019 St. Louis County Library Headquarters From the bestselling author of “The Wal-Mart Effect,” “One Giant Leap” introduces readers to the men and women tasked with putting a man on the moon. From the halls of MIT, where the eccentric digital pioneer Charles Draper created the two computers aboard Apollo 11, to the factories where hundreds of women weaved computer programs with copper wire, Charles Fishman captures the sweeping achievement of these ordinary Americans. Presented by the ‘Buzz’ Westfall Favorite Author Series. Books will be available for purchase at the event from the Novel Neighbor. |
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June 24, 2019 St. Louis County Library Headquarters Over the course of more than three decades as an American diplomat, William J. Burns played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time—from the bloodless end of the Cold War to the collapse of post–Cold War relations with Putin’s Russia, from post–9/11 tumult in the Middle East to the secret nuclear talks with Iran. Drawing on a trove of newly declassified cables and memos, Burns gives readers a rare inside look at American diplomacy in action. “The Back Channel” is an eloquent, deeply informed, and timely story of a life spent in service of American interests abroad. It is also a powerful reminder, in a time of great turmoil, of the enduring importance of diplomacy. Presented by the ‘Buzz’ Westfall Favorite Author Series. Books will be available for purchase at the event from Left Bank Books.
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June 17, 2019 St. Louis County Library Headquarters Award-winning journalist presents a thrilling narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA. On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between the two nations. The CIA concocted a cover story for President Eisenhower to deliver, assuring him that no one could have survived a fall from that altitude. But against all odds, pilot Francis Gary Powers emerged from the wreckage and was seized by the KGB. He confessed to espionage charges, revealing to the world that Eisenhower had just lied to the American people—and to the Soviet Premier. In this true-life thriller, Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War. Presented by the ‘Buzz’ Westfall Favorite Author Series. |
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June 18, 2019 St. Louis County Library Headquarters From a decorated Marine war veteran, renowned war correspondent, and National Book Award-nominated novelist, Elliot Ackerman’s memoir “Places and Names” is an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Ackerman weaves his personal stories of battle into the latticework of a larger reckoning with contemporary geopolitics. At once an intensely personal book about the terrible lure of combat and a brilliant meditation on the larger meaning of the past two decades of strife, “Places and Names” bids fair to take its place among our greatest books about modern war. Presented by the ‘Buzz’ Westfall Favorite Author Series. |
St. Louis Press Club and Journalism Foundation Scholarship Luncheon
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Noon, Friday, May 31
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Media Persons of the Year Gala
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Friday Forum featuring Donnybrook panelists Friday May 24: Lunch 11:30 a.m., forum at noon
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Enjoy front row reserved seating at St. Louis County Library "In Conversation" Author Series sponsored by St. Louis Press Club
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May 2, 2019 |
For Press Club Reserved Seats, email info@stlpressclub.org
Click here to learn about our collaboration with the library's author series.
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Presents
" Representation & Responsibility: Equity in Journalism and the Media" Panel Discussion
Thursday, April 25 at 7 p.m.
Harris-Stowe State University
Private pre-program reception from 6 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. for Opera Theater and Press Club members with hors d'oeuvres and beverages in room adjacent to auditorium.
Parking is available in the main lots on the SW side of Compton/Laclede (I.e. across Compton from the Chaifetz Arena). Guests should follow signage towards the Harris-Stowe Bookstore as this is in the same building as the auditorium.
Complimentary dessert reception will follow panel.
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED, BUT WILL BE RESCHEDULED. PLEASE CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES.
April 26, 11:30 a.m.: Friday Forum featuring Sylvester Brown Jr. "When Journalists Listen: The Story of a Word Warrior" at
MAC-Downtown. Optional lunch buffet.
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Our forum speaker, Sylvester Brown Jr. – author, community activist and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, will talk about "When Journalists Listen: The Story of a Word Warrior." Prior to his position with the Post, Brown published Take Five Magazine, an investigative regional publication, for 15 years. The publication received more than 30 awards for its investigative series, general reporting and Sylvester’s political and social commentaries. Brown also founded the Sweet Potato Project, a St. Louis-based entrepreneurial and agricultural program for urban youth. This project inspired his recently released book, “When We Listen: Recognizing the Potential of Urban Youth.” The noon forum is open to all (by reservation due to limited space). RSVP by April 24 please to info@stlpressclub.org or by calling 314-449-8029. The optional buffet lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. and is $20 for Press Club members, $25 for all others. (MAC garage parking free for lunch guests with validated ticket.) |
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“Other People” Film Screening and Discussion on April 18 at Missouri History Museum
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist and Press Club member Aisha Sultan will screen her film, “Other People,” and moderate a discussion between audience members and a panel of the region’s brightest thought-leaders at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, April 18 at the Missouri History Museum auditorium. |
Enjoy front row reserved seating at St. Louis County Library "In Conversation" Author Series sponsored by St. Louis Press Club
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March 25, 2019 |
For Press Club Reserved Seats, email info@stlpressclub.org
Click here to learn about our collaboration with the library's author series.
St. Louis Press Club Friday Forum: March 22
Better Together's executive director Nancy Rice and Marius Johnson-Malone, Depty Director of Community Based Studies spoke and answer questions about the
proposed city-county merger.
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Nancy Rice Better Together's executive director |
Marius Johnson-Malone Depty Director of Community Based Studies |
Place: Missouri Athletic Club-West, 1777 Des Peres Rd, St. Louis, MO 63131
Time: Lunch 11:30 a.m., Forum at noon
Cost: Buffet lunch (not required to attend) is $20 for Press Club members, $23 for all others
If coming for lunch buffet click here to pay by credit card
or mail a check to St. Louis Press Club, PO Box 410522, St. Louis, MO 63141.
Reservations: Due to limited space, reservations are required for all attendees.
By email to info@stlpressclub.org or phone to 314-449-8029.
St. Louis County Library "In Conversation" Author Series sponsored by St. Louis Press Club
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March 12, 2019 |
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Click Here to see Doug Moore's front page article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Click here to pay by credit card |
Thursday, January 17 at 11:30 a.m.
January Forum: Political Pundits Kelley and Hancock Share Straight Talk about Republican-Democrat Divide
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The first Press Club lunch forum of the year featured Mike Kelley and John Hancock, political experts whose programs on KMOX and Fox 2 inform and entertain our region with their opinions each week. On January 17, the Press Club forum audience, which included journalism students as well as media professionals, enjoyed a lunch at The Highlands in Forest Park and a stimulating exchange of ideas with Kelley and Hancock. Click Here to view photos from the event. |
"In Converation with Press Club" recent author talks at St. Louis County Library
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Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis, P.O. Box 410522, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 | Phone: 314-449-8029 | Fax: 314-317-0031 | email: info@stlpressclub.org