Pennsylvania Women's Press Association
  • PWPA president JoAnne Harrop stands with 2011 scholarship winner Faith Cotter.

  • Membership Director Kay Stephens has a laugh with Maddie Mathias of the southeast district and Vice President Dawn Goodman at the annual awards luncheon in Harrisburg, May 2010.

  • Maddie Mathias of the southeast district, left, with Linda Espenshade, past president and member of the south central district, at the annual awards luncheon in Harrisburg, May 2010.

  • PWPA scholarship winner Vincent C. Vella of La Salle University, left, with President JoAnne Harrop and keynote speaker Butch Ward, managing director of The Poynter Institute, May 2010.

  • PWPA Contest Director Diane Bitting, background, calls the names of awardees as Vice President Dawn Goodman hands out certificates at the annual awards luncheon in Harrisburg, May 2010.

  • Keynote speaker Butch Ward, managing director of The Poynter Institute, at PWPA’s annual awards luncheon in Harrisburg, May 2010.



Our Mission

To promote high standards in journalism; to provide exchange of journalistic trends and experience; to advance in careers in journalism, to coordinate opinion on matters of state and national interest to journalists, in particular, those of women.