{"id":15736,"date":"2025-05-28T09:38:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T13:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/?p=15736"},"modified":"2025-06-16T12:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:02:31","slug":"support-journalism-fly-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/support-journalism-fly-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Journalism Awards Dinner and Fly-in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/capitol-dome-sun-1000px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/>Image credit: lucky-photographer\/iStock \/ Getty Images Plus via Getty Images<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #0082c0;\"><strong>October 7-8, 2025 | Washington, D.C.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/support-journalism-fly-in-registration-2025\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default industry-button\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#0082c0;border-color:#00689a;border-radius:66px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 30px;font-size:22px;line-height:44px;border-color:#4da8d3;border-radius:66px;text-shadow:none\"> Register Now<\/span><\/a>\n<p>Join your peers in Washington, D.C. from October 7-8 for the Support Journalism Awards Dinner and Fly-in where you will meet with Members of Congress and their staff to reinforce the need for legislation to protect and support quality journalism to ensure a thriving future for our important industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This event is invitation-only. <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have not received an invitation and are interested in attending, please contact <\/span><a href=\"mailto:rsvp@newsmediaalliance.org?subject=2025 Support Journalism Fly-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rsvp@newsmediaalliance.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Alliance will:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Schedule all meetings with Members of Congress and their staff<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hold a virtual orientation and prepare you for what to expect and what to say<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Provide you with an app where you\u2019ll easily be able to access your meeting schedule, talking points, and other important details. You will receive details on how to access the app closer to the event.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Alliance will schedule your Hill meetings according to a number of factors, including presence in a state or Congressional district and participation in an Alliance Working Group. For the 2025 fly-in, you do not need to register for a specific policy track.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0082c0;\"><b>Registration:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Complimentary, advanced registration is required. <\/span><b>Click <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/support-journalism-fly-in-registration-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>here<\/b><\/a><b> to register. <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All events below are free to attend. Travel and hotel accommodations are at the cost of the attendee. (See note below about financial assistance.)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0082c0;\"><b>Hotel:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Washington Marriott Capitol Hill (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Washington+Marriott+Capitol+Hill\/@38.8954399,-77.01168,16z\/data=!4m9!3m8!1s0x89b7b81f4ce6e4a5:0xd7731454a386596c!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d38.9033889!4d-77.0049438!16s%2Fg%2F11s554xv80?entry=ttu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">view map<\/a>)<br \/>\n175 L St NE<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20002<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To book a room in our hotel block starting at<\/span><b> $299 + tax per night<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the nights of Monday, October 6, Tuesday, October 7, and Wednesday, October 8, please<strong> click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marriott.com\/event-reservations\/reservation-link.mi?id=1741278985674&amp;key=GRP&amp;guestreslink2=true&amp;app=resvlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The deadline to book a room in our block is Monday, September 15.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please note that room availability may be limited. Our room block does not include suites. For your awareness, if you book a suite, your room overlooks the train tracks and the train sound can be disruptive. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0082c0;\"><b>Agenda:<\/b><\/span><b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Tuesday, October 7<br \/>\n<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5:30 p.m. &#8211; 8:30 p.m. | Alliance Support Journalism Awards &amp; Chairman\u2019s Dinner<\/span><b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Wednesday, October 8<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8:00 a.m. &#8211; 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast and Hill Visit Briefing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9:00 a.m. &#8211; 5:00 p.m. | Capitol Hill Advocacy Visits<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0082c0;\"><b>Travel Stipend:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The News\/Media Alliance is offering a travel stipend for fly-in related expenses of up to $1,000 to <\/span><b>those who are in need of financial assistance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and wouldn\u2019t be able to attend without it. For consideration to receive the stipend, individuals can apply for it when registering. Once approved, in order to receive reimbursement for event-related travel expenses, participants must:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay within the designated room block at the Washington Marriott Capitol Hill<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attend all scheduled meetings and complete the Meeting Report Form in the Advocacy Associates app<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Submit fly-in related travel expenses with receipts up to $1,000 by <\/span><b>Friday, November 7, 2025<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0082c0;\"><b>Questions:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please contact <a href=\"mailto:rsvp@newsmediaalliance.org?subject=2025 Support Journalism Fly-in Question\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rsvp@newsmediaalliance.org<\/a> with any questions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0082c0;\"><b>Media Inquiries:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sam Quigley<br \/>\nDirector, Communications<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:sam@newsmediaalliance.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sam@newsmediaalliance.org<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to our partners for their support:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14868 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AMNWS_WP-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AMNWS_WP-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AMNWS_WP.jpg 541w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediafinance.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17319 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MFM-logo-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MFM-logo-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MFM-logo-1024x484.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MFM-logo-768x363.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MFM-logo-1536x726.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MFM-logo-2048x968.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nahp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17413 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/NAHP-LIGHT-BLUE-INC-300x121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/NAHP-LIGHT-BLUE-INC-300x121.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/NAHP-LIGHT-BLUE-INC-1024x412.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/NAHP-LIGHT-BLUE-INC-768x309.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/NAHP-LIGHT-BLUE-INC-1536x618.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/NAHP-LIGHT-BLUE-INC-2048x824.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nna.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14867 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NNA-logo_WP-300x145.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NNA-logo_WP-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NNA-logo_WP-600x292.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/NNA-logo_WP.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>More than 120 participants representing news, magazine and digital-only publishers met with Members of Congress from 36 states on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2024 for the News\/Media Alliance\u2019s \u2018Support Journalism\u2019 Fly-In to advocate for the importance of quality journalistic and creative content and reinforce the need for legislation that would compensate news publishers for the use of our valuable content and discuss AI\u2019s impact on journalism and free press. <\/i><b><i>To view a collection of photos from the 2024 Support Journalism Awards &amp; Chairman\u2019s Dinner and fly-in, <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/support-journalism-fly-in-2024-photos\/\"><b><i>click here<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 7-8, 2025 &#8211; Make your voice heard! Join your peers in Washington, D.C. to reinforce the need for legislation compensating news publishers for our valuable content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,201,16,486,450],"tags":[739],"class_list":["post-15736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-advocacy-advocacy","category-events","category-home","category-live-events","tag-upcoming-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}