Club Member Steve Geimann to Receive SPJ Service Award at Annual Dinner

Club member Steve Geimann, an editor at Bloomberg News, will receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Washington chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at its annual dinner Tuesday, June 11, at the Club.

At the dinner, NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell, Washington Post sports columnist Thomas Boswell, author and political journalist Haynes Johnson and New York Times/CBS News/PBS correspondent Terence Smith will be inducted into the chapter's hall of fame.

Geimann, whose career includes a stint as the top editor of United Press International, was national president of the Society of Professional Journalists and for two years chaired SPJ's Ethics Committee. Since 1997, Geimann has represented SPJ on the Accrediting Council for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, which reviews and evaluates curriculum at more than 100 universities. He also served on the American Bar Association's Conference of Lawyers and Representatives of the News Media, and the Commission on Public Understanding About the Law — a group that considered methods to raise public knowledge of the legal process. In 2001, Geimann was awarded the Wells Memorial Key, SPJ’s highest honor.

Tickets for are $80 for SPJ and National Press Club members (plus one guest per member) and $110 for nonmembers. Contact dinner chair Andy Schotz at [email protected] for questions or to make reservations.