Sacramento Press Club

Happy hour tonight at 5:30 at SMIC's on K Street!

The $6,300 Dale Kasler Scholarship goes to Sacramento State journalism student Sara Nevis, a second-time scholarship winner. A single mom and Sacramento City College transfer, she continued to impress judges as a resourceful, observant, and innovative journalist. Sara discovered a passion for photography after cancer sidelined her from a career as a military air traffic controller, then she developed her writing and multimedia skills. She freelances for the Stockton Record and is the multimedia editor for The State Hornet. This year, she joined the New York Times Student Journalism Institute and will intern for the Sacramento Bee. Support these scholarships: https://sacpressclub.org/scholarships/

Our $4,000 Dan Walters Scholarship goes to Keyshawn Davis, a Sacramento City College student who is transferring to Sacramento State. Keyshawn’s story is one of tenacity. He’s been the primary financial support for siblings while plugging away at coursework. His love for sports drew him to journalism and the sports editor job at The Express and then the pandemic shut down sports. He pivoted to features and freelanced for Comstock’s magazine. Judges noted his growth over the last year and said, He is earning his place in the business. Support our scholarship program: https://sacpressclub.org/scholarships/

Our $4,000 Beth Ruyak Scholarship this year goes to Elyse Pham, a Harvard student from Sacramento who has interned for The Sacramento Bee and the Today Show’s digital team, among others. The daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Elyse said she is committed to covering marginalized communities. At the Today Show, she wrote a story explaining how stereotypes of women of Asian descent as sexual objects contributed to the Atlanta shootings. Judges were impressed by her ambitious story ideas, good quotes and professional writing. Support our scholarship program today: https://sacpressclub.org/scholarships/.

Join us at our Happy Hour this Thursday!

The next SPC in-person Happy Hour is next week, Thursday, June 10, downtown. Join us!

Spread the word! The Sacramento Press Club is launching a journalism awards program to honor the best journalism of 2020 focused on state politics and policy in California. Entry deadline 2/5. Details here: https://sacpressclub.org/awards/

Entries are due 2/5 for SPC's inaugural journalism awards program! Submissions will be judged by accomplished journalists with ties to CA, including Pulitzer and Emmy winning reporters, political correspondents & academics from top journalism programs. Details: https://sacpressclub.org/awards/

California Capitol reporters dug deep in 2020 to produce powerful and informative enterprise work. We're honoring the best of that reporting in our inaugural awards program. Submit your work in our Capitol Enterprise category: https://sacpressclub.org/awards/

Congrats to newly elected 2021 SacPressClub Board members: Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle Byrhonda Lyons, CalMatters Dan Morain, author and journalist... Dan Smith, Visit California Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times Roger Salazar, Alza Strategies Samantha Young, Kaiser Health News Sophia Bollag, The Sacramento Bee See more

California journalists kept the public informed during an unprecedented year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic. We're honoring that work in the public health reporting category of SPC's inaugural awards program. Apply: https://sacpressclub.org/awards/

The election of Joe Biden left Santa Cruz-based author Steve Kettmann wondering what the next four years, with a new president, would hold. So he asked 38 of his most thoughtful and provocative friends to write essays on the topic for a new book, Now What?: The Voters Have Spoken Essays on Life After Trump. Authors range from Anthony Scaramucci and Wesley Clark to Rosanna Arquette and Keith Olbermann. Three of them satirist and author Christopher Buckley, former San Franc...isco Giants manager Dusty Baker, and Sacramento Bee columnist Marcos Breton will join Kettmann for a special Sacramento Press Club event to offer their insights. Joan Walsh, an author, The Nation correspondent and commentator at CNN and MSNBC, will also join the discussion. You can watch this free event live on Tuesday, Jan. 19, at noon or stream it again any time after that at Facebook.com/SacPressClub.

New Event! KCRA's Kevin Riggs talks about his new book and offers tips on conducting media interviews. Don't miss this informative workshop!

California will still be counting votes three days after election day, but a picture of the results will undoubtedly have begun taken shape. So join the Sacramento Press Club on Friday, Nov. 6, at noon for a conversation with state's top pollsters, pundits and data crunchers. We'll analyze the results of we have, who voted and why this COVID election was like no other. This free event will stream live on our Facebook page. Top political reporters will moderate, including Adam... Nagourney, a Los Angeles-based correspondent of The New York Times, Libby Denkman, senior politics reporter for KPCC, and Elex Michaelson, anchor for Fox 11 Los Angeles and host of the statewide political show "The Issue Is." Panelists include: David Binder, founder of DB Research and a former pollster for Barack Obama Shakari Byerly, partner and principal researcher with Evitarus Adissu Demisse, founding principal of 50+1 Strategies who managed Cory Booker's presidential campaign Paul Mitchell, election data geek and vice president of Political Data, Inc. Steve Schmidt, Republican strategist and former adviser to Arnold Schwarzenegger Thank you to Axiom Advisors for sponsoring the event.

Whether the count is finished or not, join the Lincoln Project's Steve Schmidt, pollsters David Binder and Shakari Beyerly, Newsom/Cory Booker campaign manager Addisu Demisse, and PDI's Paul Mitchell in conversation with reporters Adam Nagourney of the New York Times, Libby Denkman of KPCC and Elex Michaelson of FoxLA on Friday at 12 noon right here on facebook live. Free and open to all! Join us. Thx to our sponsor, Axiom Advisors.

We may -- or may not -- have a new President by Friday at noon. But in either case, please join us for our Post-Election Analysis with California's top political pollsters, pundits and number crunchers. Featuring Steve Schmidt of The Lincoln Project, PDI's Paul Mitchell, pollsters David Binder and Shakari Byerly, and Gavin Newsom/Cory Booker campaign manager Adissu Demisse. Reporters include the NY Times Adam Nagourney, Elex Michaelson of FoxTV in LA, and KPCC's Libby Denkman. Free and open to all right here on facebook live. Sponsored by AxiomAdvisors.

Friday at noon! Join California's top pollsters, pundits and data crunchers for a roundtable discussion on election results with reporters from The New York Times, Fox LA, and KPCC. Right here on facebook live. Sponsored by Axiom Advisors.

Former Schwarzenegger advisor Republican Steve Schmidt has been one of the most outspoken critics of President Trump this election cycle. He'll join other pollsters and pundits at our post-election panel on Friday, November 6 at noon right here on facebook live to decipher the results of the election. Open to all and free! Sponsored by Axiom Advisors. Join us! https://www.msnbc.com//steve-schmidt-trump-is-the-worst-pr

Adam Nagourney of The New York Times is one of America's top political journalists. We're pleased to have him as one of the moderators of our post-election analysis on Friday, November 6 at 12 noon here on facebook live. Join Adam, two other journalists, pollsters, pundits and data crunchers to get insight on the results. Sponsored by Axiom Advisors.

Just one week left until the election of our lives. Tune in on November 6th at noon right here on facebook was we feature a panel of pundits, pollsters and data crunchers that will decipher the results with reporters from The New York Times, FoxLA and KPCC public radio. Sponsored by AxiomAdvisors.com.

Pleased to have the state's top pundits and pollsters join us for our November 6th, 12 noon, post-election analysis. Among them will be Addisu Demissie, Governor Gavin Newsom and Cory Booker's campaign manager who also has been heavily involved in national voter registration projects. Please join us here on facebook for this lively discusion. Thank you to our sponsors AxiomAdvisors.com

Two of the state's top political reporters will be joining us for our post-election analysis on November 6th at 12 noon right here on our Facebook page. Adam Nagourney is a long-time New York Times political reporter and Elex Michaelson is the anchor of Fox11 in LA and host of the statewide show "The Issue Is." Sponsored by AxiomAdvisors.com. Join us!

What happened on election day? Listen to the state's top pollsters and political pundits reflect on November 6th, 12 noon right here on our facebook page live! Featuring GOP's Steve Schmidt, the Democratic strategist who ran Corey Booker's presidential run Adissu Demisse, Obama pollster David Binder, data guru Paul Mitchell of PDI, LA pollster Shakari Byerly and New York Times political reporter Adam Nagourney & Fox LA's Elex Michaelson.

Miss our debates on CA's ballot measures? You can watch them before voting right here on our facebook page. We discuss Props 15, 16 and 24 with proponents and opponents, moderated by CA's top political journalists. Check 'em out!