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News Related to ASJA
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• 2009-08-20: The Guide To Getting Clients To Pay Up: Interview With ASJA Director Alexandra Owens
• 2009-07-21: The Freedom to Write
• 2009-03-12: The Demise of Investigative Journalism; in Huffington Post
• 2009-03-09: U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Freelance Class-Action Suit Appeal
• 2009-03-03: ASJA Remembers Murray Teigh Bloom
• 2009-02-17: The Demise of Investigative Journalism
• 2008-10-29: Google Lawsuit Settled
• 2008-09-09: ASJA Blogathon for Lori Hall Steele

News Release Archive
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• 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
  
• 2009-04-24: American Society of Journalists and Authors 2009 Writing Awards
  
• 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
  
• 2003-08-01: ASJA, Authors Guild Issue Advisory on KeepMedia.com
• 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

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