NPC Press Briefing: "NIGHT OUT FOR AUSTIN TICE"

The National Press Club and it's Free Austin Tice Coalition partners will be joined by Marc and Debra Tice, Austin Tice’s parents, for a special press briefing on Friday, April 5 at 10:30 a.m. to discuss the progress of NIGHT OUT FOR AUSTIN TICE -- a campaign announced this past November to raise reward money for information leading to the safe return of Austin Tice, the award-winning journalist who was taken hostage in August of 2012 while covering the civil war in Syria.

This briefing will take place in the Zenger Room of the National Press Club, located at 529 14th Street NW (13th floor) in Washington, D.C. For updates and more information on this press briefing, and to learn more about Austin Tice and the Night Out for Austin Tice campaign, please visit www.nightoutforaustin.com

About Night Out for Austin Tice:

In April of 2018 the FBI offered a reward of $1 million for information leading to the safe return of Austin Tice. In an effort to intensify the search for Tice, the National Press Club, along with other Free Austin Tice Coalition partners, announced the "Night Out For Austin Tice" initiative – a national awareness and fundraising campaign to take place in restaurants across the country on the eve of World Press Freedom Day, Thursday, May 2, 2019. Participating restaurants will donate a portion of the proceeds made at their establishments on May 2 to a fund aimed at doubling the FBI's $1 million reward.

Since November launch the coalition partners have been organizing and planning the May 2 event which currently has 34 restaurants in seven states and two countries participating. At the press conference on March 8, International Women's Day, the Free Austin Tice Coalition announced the addition of an influential new partner, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs. The national association of more than 1,000 women restaurant owners and chefs from across the country join existing partners: the National Press Club, The Washington Post, McClatchy, Reporters Without Borders, Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, and Georgetown University.