Club members can Join SPJ DC, SIPA Tuesday, Aug. 30 to hear new-media political journalists discuss presidential politics

National Press Club members can join the Society of Professional Journalists Washington, D.C., pro chapter the evening of Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016, to hear new-media political journalists discuss presidential and other politics. They will discuss the campaigns and other electoral and political news. This follows a January SPJ DC panel discussion with “old” and new-media political journalists on whether the media are being “Trumped.”

At the Aug. 30 event, panelists are reporter Miranda Green with Decode DC, Senior Correspondent Tim Mak of The Daily Beast and Senior Reporter Kate Sheppard of The Huffington Post. Moderator is SPJ D.C. board member Alice Ollstein, a political reporter at ThinkProgress.

The 6:30 p.m. event is at the Software & Information Industry Association’s Specialized Information Publishers’ Association (SIPA), 1090 Vermont Ave. NW, 6th floor, Washington.

Light refreshments will be provided, and the fee is $5 for SIPA, SPJ and National Press Club members, $10 for others and students free. Register and pay beforehand here. Questions to Jonathan Make of SPJ D.C. at [email protected].