Club member news and notes

Here is something new for 2019 – an occasional roundup of great things happening for fellow National Press Club members:

Congratulations to Club members Jonathan Tamari (@JoanthanTamari), national political reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Sarah Wire (@sarahdwire ), congressional correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. They were elected to the Standing Committee of Correspondents in January. The five-member committee oversees the House and Senate daily press gallery operations and accredits members of the daily print news media.

Photographer Cheriss May (@cherissmay) ‏has been elected to serve as president of the Women Photojournalists of Washington organization.

After covering New Jersey for more than 35 years, 13 of them as a Washington correspondent, Herb Jackson (@HerbNJDC) has moved to cover transportation at Congressional Quarterly/Roll Call.

April Simpson (@aprilleticia) is now a senior associate, staff writer at Stateline, a news service of Pew Charitable Trusts.

Julia Haskins (@Julia_Haskins) is now a staff writer for AAMCNews at the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Did you change jobs? Get a promotion? Or have other professional news to share? Contact Suzanne Struglinski at [email protected] or 202-662-7516 for consideration in an upcoming edition of the Wire. Know someone who should be a Club member? Suzanne can help you with that too.