Dues increase approved at NPC General Membership Meeting

National Press Club members voted at the General Membership Meeting Oct. 13 to increase membership dues by $1 per month.

By unanimous voice vote, members who belong to the category of working journalists or communicators agreed to pay an additional $12 annually beginning in 2018. In 2016, membership agreed to increase dues by $2 per month.

While the Club paid off its debt in 2013 and has a healthy revenue stream, the increase in dues will cover basic costs of the Club from keeping on the lights to paying the staff, Club Treasurer Ferdous al-Faruque said at the meeting.

The dues increase applies only to resident journalist and communicator memberships and does not apply to students, non-residents and other membership types.