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2025 Awards of Excellence
2025 Awards of Excellence Submissions Open!
The Atlanta Press Club Awards of Excellence recognizes Atlanta-based or affiliated journalists for the highest caliber work within a calendar year. Only work published in 2024 is eligible. Journalists may enter their own work or be nominated by someone else. Entries are judged by volunteers from other journalism organizations around the country on quality of content, demonstrated reportorial skill and the impact of their work. Read below about the A-Mark cash prizes for Investigative Journalism in this years awards. Good luck and thank you for supporting the APC 2025 Awards of Excellence!
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2025 APC Summer Internships
2025 APC Summer Internship Application Open!
Thanks to our Co-Title Internship Sponsor Georgia Power and our annual sponsors, the Atlanta Press Club is able to provide our summer journalism internship program. APC pairs interns with many of Atlanta’s top news organizations, where they receive hands-on experience in writing and reporting. Interns will also receive a standard stipend (see application for more details). Internships will take place between June 2-August 8, 2025 (dates may vary by outlet). Summer internships may be a hybrid of virtual and in-person hours.
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2025 Awards of Excellence
APC Partners with A-Mark Foundation to Award Cash Prizes for Investigative Reporting for the 2025 Awards of Excellence
The Atlanta Press Club is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with the A-Mark Foundation for the 2025 Awards of Excellence. This collaboration will enhance the club’s long-standing commitment to honoring the best in journalism by offering cash prizes for the Investigative Reporting category, a key component of the awards. Click below to read more!
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In Memoriam
Remembering Jimmy Carter
With thoughts of sadness because of his passing and thankfulness for his partnership, the Atlanta Press Club mourns the loss of President Jimmy Carter. President Carter and his wife Rosalyn have been long-time friends and supporters of the Atlanta Press Club and have not only attended but hosted events for our organization over the years. We are grateful to President Carter, his family, and The Carter Center for their support of the Atlanta Press Club. Our thoughts are with his family.
End of Year Wrap Up
Thank You For A Great Year!
Thank you for a great year as we celebrated 60 years of The Atlanta Press Club! With your help, we created events, provided internships, and celebrated journalists at our annual Awards of Excellence and Hall of Fame. We look forward to continuing our mission to serve the evolving professional, educational and social needs of our media community, foster journalistic excellence and advance the public's understanding of a free press and its vital role in democracy. See you next year!
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APC Fall Recap
Catch up on all things APC!
Get a rundown on what's been happening with the Club this October-December! Lots of fun events and programs to recap as we head into 2025!
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2024 Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame
Congratulations to the 2024 Hall of Fame Inductees
Four distinguished journalists were inducted into the Atlanta Press Club Hall of Fame on Monday, October 28th, during a ceremony at the InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta. The 2024 Inductees included Valerie Boyd (posthumous, Veta Goler, accepted on Valerie's behalf), Clark Howard, Tony Light, and Maria Saporta. The Hall of Fame dinner is Atlanta media’s biggest night of the year and recognizes journalists who have made a significant impact on journalism in Georgia and around the country. To view each of the inductees video tributes, please click below! To read more about the Hall of Fame and to view this year's event program, please visit https://atlantapressclub.org/awards/#halloffame
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Upcoming Events
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Gold Dome 2025: Virtual Legislative Breakfast and Reporters’ Roundtable
01.28.2025
Get an insider’s perspective on what is happening under the Gold Dome at a virtual event where lawmakers, newsmakers, journalists and government transparency experts...
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2025 Georgia Bar, Media & Judiciary Conference
02.21.2025
This all-day event will center on issues at the intersection of the First Amendment, journalism, courts and the law. The conference is the collaborative...
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