Agenda for April 24 Local meeting

Agenda for April 24 Local meeting

The United Media Guild is holding a Local meeting April 24 at the Dubliner at 1025 Washington Ave. Doors to the event open at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting will start at roughly 6 p.m. The meeting is open to...

Journalism happy hour set for Feb. 26

The United Media Guild will host a happy hour to honor our 2014 Terry Hughes Award winner and celebrate good journalism in general. The event will run from 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 26 in the upper level at The...

UMG hosts social media seminar Feb. 24

Progress Missouri executive director Sean Soendker Nicholson will lead a social media seminar at noon Monday, Feb. 24. This event, sponsored by the United Media Guild, will take place in the 10th floor conference room at 1015 Locust Street in...

Replacing the annual dinner

As the United Media Guild evolves into a regional local representing a far-flung membership, we must rethink our social agenda to best serve all members. Our Executive Committee decided to suspend the annual dinner this year and stage a variety...

Press Club to honor Rick Hummel

The Metropolitan Press Club of St. Louis is honoring United Media Guild member Rick Hummel as its 2014 Media Person of the Year. He will accept the award at a dinner and awards presentation Jan. 21 at the Edward Jones...

Nominations for 22nd Annual Terry Hughes Award

Terry Hughes was 36 when she died of breast cancer on July 22, 1991.  A columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, her writing was clear, witty and descriptive, with a flair for portraying society’s underdogs.  Some of her columns chronicled...

Peoria Journal-Star Unit ratifies three-year contract extension

Last year, following a campaign that saw thousands of postcards sent to the Peoria Journal-Star publisher demanding fair treatment for employees, a press conference on the steps of city hall with the mayor reading a proclamation that called on the...