Legends of Broadcast: Irv Chapman

These limited-access informal events allow NPC members and their guests to hear the honoree's remarks and participate in an intimate Q&A.

Irv Chapman has been a Washington and foreign correspondent for major broadcast news organizations. He moved from New York to Washington to open a bureau for a startup, Radio Press International, and to cover President John F. Kennedy as White House correspondent. Joining ABC News, his first major special event was Kennedy's funeral. Chapman was ABC’s Bureau Chief in Moscow and Tokyo. He covered Richard Nixon's first-ever presidential summit in the Soviet Union, interviewed Emperor Hirohito before a ground-breaking visit to the United States, and travelled with Pope John Paul II on trips to Asia and his native Poland.

Chapman later worked for Cable News Network as Washington correspondent for CNN Business News. He joined Bloomberg in 1997 as television and radio correspondent and continued to cover Congressional hearings, the 9/11 commission, the financial crisis panel, presidential impeachments, the January 6 investigation, and Supreme Court arguments. He has been a member of the National Press Club since 1961 and still records radio spots for Bloomberg part-time.

A cash bar reception will begin at 6 p.m. with introductions and dinner following at 6:45. Our guest of honor will make remarks and then open the floor to an informal Q&A session to end by 8:30.

Cost of the three-course dinner with 2 glasses of wine is $70 for National Press Club members.