Conversation with Debra Tice
May 2 2023
May 2, 2023 at 1:00pm
Zenger Room
Cecily Scott Martin
News Conference
This event is open only to NPC members & credentialed press
The National Press Club Press Freedom Team is hosting a news conference with Debra Tice, mother of award-winning journalist Austin Tice who has been held in Syria since 2012. She will give an update on her son’s case.
Mrs. Tice is here for meetings with the Administration and her intergovernmental team. She also attended the Annual White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday night where the President spoke with passion about Austin and Evan Gershkovich and the need to bring them home. She will talk about that experience as well.
May 2 is a day of action for Austin at the Press Club where we are asking everyone to take a photo at the banner on 14th Street or the Freedom Clock in our lobby and post on social media. May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. Austin and Evan are currently the only two US journalists being held overseas.