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News Release Archive
- 2013-08-28: Florence Isaacs Receives ASJA's Founders Award for Career Achievement
- 2012-10-09: Writers Slam Secrecy of Book Publishers' Deal with Google
- 2012-09-17: Banned Books Week Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary
- 2012-08-17: Remembering Grace W. Weinstein, 1935-2012
- 2012-07-13: ASJA Announces New Officers and Directors
- 2012-07-05: Remembering ASJA Founding Member Norman Lobsenz
- 2012-06-07: Open Book Award
- 2012-04-12: ASJA Defends the Right to Focus on the Police
- 2012-03-23: Winners of 2012 Writing Awards
- 2011-03-23: Thank you, Judge Chin, for listening to the world's writers!
- 2011-03-15: ASJA2011 scholarship winners announced
- 2011-03-14: Annual Writing Awards
- 2010-03-19: Annual Writing Awards
- 2010-02-18: Google settlement "fundamentally unfair to writers"
- 2009-10-30: Health Care Reform Resolution
- 2009-10-07: ASJA's wish list for the Google Book Settlement 2
- 2009-07-21: The Freedom to Write
- 2009-04-24: American Society of Journalists and Authors 2009 Writing Awards
- 2009-08-20: The Guide To Getting Clients To Pay Up: Interview With ASJA Director Alexandra Owens
- 2009-03-12: The Demise of Investigative Journalism; in Huffington Post
- 2008-04-11: Ruth Gruber Receives Open Book Award from ASJA
- 2008-04-11: American Society of Journalists and Authors 2008 Writing Awards
- 2008-04-04: Big, rich Amazon now gouging independent publishers -- and writers, most of all
- 2008-02-07: Top Writers Offer Expert Advice in ASJA Mentoring Program
- 2008-02-01: Literary Journalist Melissa Fay Greene to Address ASJA Annual Writers Conference
- 2007-04-20: ASJA Announces 2007 Award Winners
- 2007-02-10: Jeannette Walls Keynote Speaker for 2007 ASJA Conference
- 2006-09-05: Why ASJA Opposes The Orphan Works Act
- 2006-07-24: ASJA Protests FEMA Restrictions on Free Speech
- 2005-09-12: ASJA Honors Fallen Journalists
- 2005-06-29: ASJA Honors Senator Dodd
- 2006-04-15: ASJA Presents 2005 Writing Awards
- 2005-03-29: $18 Million Settlement to Freelance Writers Filed for Court Approval
- 2004-10-14: ASJA Protests Jail Threats for Reporters
- 2004-06-07: ASJA Protests U.S. Visa Requirements for Foreign Journalists
- 2004-05-28: ASJA'S Writer Referral Service Gets A New Interim Director
- 2004-04-25: ASJA First Amendment Committee Asks for Investigation of Allegations of Abuse of Journalists in Iraq
- 2004-05-05: ASJA First Amendment Committee condemns "Censorship by Proxy"
- 2004-04-28: ASJA Presents 2004 Writing Awards
- 2004-03-19: American Society Of Journalists And Authors Condemn HHS' Use Of Fake Reporters In Videos
- 2004-01-15: Boston Globe Lawsuit Dropped; ASJA and Creators Network Support Freelancers in Ongoing Rights Fight
- 2003-10-30: ASJA Supports Modifications to the USA Patriot Act
- 2003-10-20: ASJA Files Brief in Support of Maverick Writer
- 2003-08-25: ASJA Asks Secretary Rumsfeld to Investigate Death of Journalist Mazen Dana
- 2003-05-09: ASJA Presents 2003 Writing Awards
- 2003-04-23: ASJA, Authors Guild Rebuke AOL Time Warner for All Rights Contract
- 2003-04-14: ASJA Supports Freedom to Read Protection Act
- 2002-07-31: ASJA to Congress: Make New Agency Accountable
- 2002-04-11: Despite Slashed Publishing Budgets and Plummeting Ad Pages, Writers Conference is Drawing Record Crowds
- 2001-06-26: The Chicken Little Argument
- 2001-06-25: Copyright Decision Good for Writers and Readers