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Our members work are reporters, editors, broadcasters, freelancers, educators and public relations professionals working for a variety of organizations. Several of our members are authors of fiction and non-fiction books.
Our mission is to advance professional standards, provide exchange of journalistic ideas and experiences, and coordinate efforts of interest to communicators.
We provide scholarships in connection with our communications contest. Browse these pages and discover the benefits, services and worthwhile projects that make WPCI important to its members. Then download your membership form and send it in to become part of a team of professionals.
We meet four times a year, in March, May, September and November, at locations around the state. Two meetings are workshops addressing various topics important to our members. The May meeting is dedicated to our state contest awards. Many of our members also attend the National Federation of Press Women conference each fall. As part of your WPCI membership, you'll also become an NFPW member. Check out the Good Reasons to Join page to learn more about the advantages of being a member.
Qualifications:
Professional communicators who live or work in Indiana and are actively involved in any aspect of communications for remuneration (pay) are eligible for active membership. These include:
- Women and men who are employed in any field of communications at any level of responsibility (newspapers, magazines, radio and TV, schools and colleges, government, corporations, nonprofit agencies and associations or organizations).
- Writers, editors, publishers, graphic designers, reporters, directors, marketers, photographers, account executives, educators, public information officers, freelancers and owners/managers of related businesses.
Students attending any college or university in Indiana studying communications may join at the student level with reduced dues.
Provisional members are those who work in professional communications without remuneration.
Interested?
WPCI members Elizabeth Granger (left) and Marion Garmel.
Download the Membership Application here. Information about dues is included with this form.
For more information about WPCI, contact Membership Chair Viv Rosswurm.
WPCI Code of Ethics
"As a professional communicator, I recognize my responsibility to the public, which has placed its trust and confidence in my work and will endeavor to do nothing to abuse this obligation.
"With truth as my highest goal, I will adhere to the highest standards of professional communications, never consciously misleading reader, viewer or listener, and will avoid any compromise of my objectivity and fairness.
"Because I believe that professional communicators must be obligated only to the people's right to know, I affirm that the freedom of the press is to be guarded as an inalienable right of the citizens of a free society. I pledge to use this freedom wisely and uphold the right of ocmmunicators to express unpopular opinions as well as the righh to agree with the majority."
The fine print:
