Join NAHJ DC, WABJ, AAJA DC, NLGJA DC, and SPJ DC for a diversity mixer at NBC4 on Thursday, July 18 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Come meet NBC4 President and General Manager Jackie Bradford, NBC4
Vice-President of News Mike Goldrick, and NBC News Washington Bureau
Chief Ken Strickland.
We reached capacity! We are no longer accepting RSVPs.
NBC4
4001 Nebraska Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
Metro: Tenelytown/AU Station on the Red Line. Parking Available
Join NAHJ DC, WABJ, and AAJA DC for a Mega-Meeting at Discovery Communications on Wednesday, July 10 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM.
We are no longer accepting RSVPs to this event. We are expecting a full house.
Location and directions
Discovery Communications
One Discovery Place
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(Entrance at the corner of Georgia & Wayne Avenues)
Parking available in the Wayne Avenue parking garage across the street
from building. Rate is $1/hour.
By Metro: Silver Spring Metro Station (Red Line). Walk one block towards
Georgia Avenue.
Hope to see you there!
Chapter Members and Friends,
Thank you for making “Noche de Periodistas” a success! Mil gracias a Ray Suarez and his wife Carol for opening their home for a second year to host our chapter fundraiser. Gracias a Felix Contreras and his “Cilantro Boogie” band for keeping the beat going. Gracias a Suzanna Sanchez for designing the event’s logo, ticket, and poster. Thanks to our special guest Jim Avila from ABC News and his fiancé for joining us. Muchas gracias a todos who bought a ticket and brought a side dish. You made our fundraiser special and delicious!
We raised $3,210 on Saturday night. The fund will benefit our national association and our Washington, D.C. Chapter.
The revenue will be split as follows: $1,312.50 will go to the national level which is 70% of the profits from the following auction items: United Airline tickets and Excellence in Journalism convention registration.
Our chapter will keep $1,897.50. This is more than enough money to replenish the checks we mailed for the two Charlie Ericksen Internship Supplements (commuter stipend for Washington Interns) and convention assistance (registration) for one professional and one student to attend the national convention in Anaheim. Before our fundraiser, the chapter had about $8,000 in our account.
Here are the winners of the auction:
Latin Jazz CD $20 Jackie Diaz
Latin Jazz CD $25
Guapos $50 Ray Suarez
NAHJ Convention $225 Brandon Benavides
2 United Airline Tickets $1,650 Brandon Garcia
Sincerely,
The Washington, D.C. Chapter Board of Directors
Brandon A Benavides
President
Content Producer at NBC4
Jackie Diaz
Vice-President
Web Producer at WUSA*9
Rosalba Ruiz
Secretary-Treasurer
Latin America Producer at AP
Melissa Macaya
At-Large Officer
Multimedia Journalist at CNN and CNN en Español
Join us for our NAHJ Washington, D.C. Chapter fundraiser and live auction at Ray Suarez’s house in Upper Northwest D.C. Drink a glass of wine and enjoy the rhythm of Latin jazz band David Y Felix Cilantro Boogie in the backyard. Eat a fajita taco, grilled Salmon, and other home-made dishes from our chapter members. We are pleased to welcome Jim Avila from ABC News to the event as well.
Date: Saturday, June 29, 2013
Time: 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Tickets sales closed
We are pleased to announce our inaugural recipients of the Charlie Ericksen Internship Supplement. Congratulations Nicole Chavez and Francis Orellana! They will receive a one-year student membership to NAHJ and $200 to be used on a Metro Card during their summer internship in the nation’s capital. Chavez is interning at the Washington Post. Orellana is interning at Hispanic Link. The supplement is named in honor of Charlie Ericksen. He is the founder of Hispanic Link News Service and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He is an active member of the D.C. Chapter.
Save the date: Thursday, March 21 from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. We will meet with WJLA-TV/ ABC 7 General Manager Bill Lord.
Several journalists gathered at the Science Club in Dupont Circle to mix and mingle on Thursday, February 21. Special thanks to At-Large Officer Andres Gonzalez for organizing the mixer. (Photos Courtesy: Jackie Diaz)
We’re going to California! The Excellence in Journalism convention with
the Society of Professional Journalists, Radio Television Digital News Association, and NAHJ is on August 24-26, 2013 in Anaheim.
The NAHJ Washington, D.C. Chapter is offering to pay the Early Bird a la Carte Registration fee for two professionals and one student member. NAHJ members in the District, Maryland and Virginia can apply by emailing nahjdc@gmail.com. Send a resume and write a one page letter on what you hope to learn at the convention. Also describe your financial situation. Winners must ensure national dues are paid. The
deadline is Friday, May 31.
Registration Raffle
The chapter is also raffling off Early Bird a la Carte Registration. Tickets are $25. The lucky winner will be drawn at our membership meeting in May. The drawing is open to any NAHJ DC member who is current with their annual dues. Email nahjdc@gmail.com to get in the drawing. Mail a check to NAHJ ATTN: Anna Lopez 1050 Connecticut Avenue NW 10th Floor, Washington, DC 20036. Please indicate it is for the
NAHJ Washington, D.C. Chapter.
A la Carte Registration includes:
— Two Super Sessions
— 60 breakout sessions
— Access to the Journalism Expo
— Participation in newsroom tours and critiques
— Opening Night Reception
Early Bird | Register by July 25
Member: $205
Student Member: $155
San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro met with members of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists during our Chapter Mixer and Membership Drive on Sunday, January 20. More than 30 members gathered at the home of Carolyn Brown in Northwest D.C. to hear Castro as well as Telemundo Anchor José Díaz-Balart speak.
Castro delivered the keynote address at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. He is the first American Latino to do so.
Castro kept a busy schedule the day before President Barack Obama’s second public inauguration. He and his brother, Congressman Joaquín Castro, (D-San Antonio), appeared on CBS Face the Nation on Sunday morning. The brothers also attended the Lone Star Project Presidential Inauguration Celebration honoring the five new Texas Democratic Congressional members that afternoon and spoke at the Latino Inaugural Gala at the Kennedy Center before attending the D.C Chapter mixer and membership drive.
Castro answered questions from Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent at The PBS News Hour. Castro talked about how education is important to everyone. He highlighted the new Pre-K program voters in San Antonio passed in November. “The communities that thrive are going to be the one’s that are educated,” Castro said. He went on to say, “that brain power is not created in minority groups.”
“It was fun to pick the brains of a clear up-and-comer in American politics,” said Suarez. “We talked about how politics had changed in recent decades, how poverty, inequality, the health of the nation’s cities, seemed to disappear from political party platforms. At 38, he’s mayor of the 7th largest city in the country… and seems to be keeping it all in perspective,” Suarez said.
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NAHJ DC Members,
Over the past year, we have been a very active chapter.
We met newsroom leaders at The Washington Post, Telemundo Washington Bureau, NBC Latino, Scripps-Howard Washington Bureau, and WUSA-TV/ 9News Now. We also met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the U.S. Capitol.
Several members took advantage of our chapter workshop series. More than a dozen members participated in our Spanish Language Writing workshop at Univision Noticias DC. Another dozen or so members learned about radio storytelling at NPR.
We held our first chapter fundraiser in three years “Una Noche con Periodistas” at the home of Ray Suarez from PBS NewsHour and it was a great success.
We established the Charlie Ericksen Internship Supplement to help Washington interns get around town. We paid the registration for two members to attend the Unity Convention in Las Vegas.
We began the year with $5,766.09 in our account. With the help of all our active members, we ended the year with $8,279.11.
Thank you for making 2012 a great year. We look forward to 2013.
Sincerely,
Brandon Benavides
Chapter President
NAHJ DC 