MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIES
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Classes of Membership 

The membership classes of the Association, and the voting rights and eligibility to serve as a director or officer of the Association of the members of the respective classes, shall be as follows:

Regular Members – $40
Regular Members consist of persons whose principal means of support is earned in the gathering, editing, or presentation of news. Regular Members may not be employees of a government-supported news organization. Persons with the following job title descriptions, among others, are eligible for admission as a Regular Member: Reporter, Editor, Broadcast News Director, Community or Public Affairs Director in broadcast or print news organizations, Publisher of print news media, General Manager of broadcast news media, Photographer, and News Cameraperson, News Graphic Artist, and Newspaper Designer. A Regular Member has the right to vote and the right to serve as a director or officer of the Association. 

Academic Members – $40
Academic Members consist of persons who are educators of journalism in educational institutions of higher learning. An Academic Member has the right to vote and the right to serve as a director or officer of the Association. 

Associate Members* – $40
Associate Members consist of persons engaged in such media-related jobs as public relations, public or corporate information, and directors of media organizations. An Associate Member does not have the right to vote or the right to serve as a director or officer of the Association. 

Student Members – $25
Student Members consist of persons engaged in a program of full-time study in a recognized educational institution of higher learning. A Student Member has the right to vote in the election of the Student Representative to the Board of Directors, but otherwise does not have the right to vote on matters submitted to the vote of the members. A Student Member is entitled to be elected to the Board of Directors as the Student Representative, but otherwise does not have the right to serve as a director or officer of the Association.

Lifetime – One-time total $1500 
This is not a membership type. It is a recognition of your loyalty to NAHJ at events and in organization literature while also relieving you of having to renew annually. However, it does not confer voting privileges or special rights outside of your membership category. Those categories are determined based on your employment status and field of work. You will be placed into Regular, Academic, Associate, student or a *supportive membership, as defined in the bylaws. 

• Lifetime - One Time Payment - $1,500.00
• Lifetime - $125 a month for 1 year - $1,500.00
• Lifetime - $63 a month for 2 years - $1,500.00

*Definition of Supporting Members. Supporting Members consist of either:

(a) Individual Supporting Members who are persons not in the media industry, but who support the goals and purposes of the Association.
(b) Corporate Supporting Members who are persons acting as representatives of corporations that are not engaged in journalism and/or media, but that support the goals and purposes of the Association.
(c) Supporting Members do not have the right to vote or the right to serve as a director or officer of the Association.

 

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