Join the Central Florida Association of Black Journalists
The annual dues for CFABJ:
Full Membership: $40.00 per year
Affiliate Membership: $25.00 per year
Student Membership: $15.00 per year
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Full Membership: Journalists employed full time at any daily, weekly, or monthly newspaper or magazine or on any radio or television program or digital media outlet in the Central Florida area (Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Brevard, Volusia, and Lake Counties) shall be eligible for full membership. Journalists are defined as reporters, radio stations or media outlets, who produce, gather, disseminate, and distribute news. Also considered eligible for full membership are anchors, news producers, cinematographers and engineers.
Full memberships will be offered to those free-lance journalists who can prove that they actively write, broadcast, or photograph on a free-lance basis. Full memberships also will be given to journalism professors at a college or university with a journalism department who have had at least five years’ previous newsroom experience before going into academia.
Affiliate Membership: Media-Related Professional who works primarily in a field related to journalism, such as public relations, public information, marketing, communications, advocacy, and the legal field. This includes those employed full time time or part time in mass media in the Central Florida area, who work as intern (but not student) reporters, photographers, or copy editors, researchers, television and radio desk assistants, are eligible for affiliate memberships.
Student Membership: Student memberships shall be offered to any high school student or one who is presently a full-time student at an accredited college or university. The college student’s course of study must be in the communications field, preferably journalism or broadcast journalism.
