National Press Club

Those who have done the most innovative online journalism in 2017 should enter their work in the competition for the Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award. The deadline has been extended to Monday, April 16.

The winner of this National Press Club award will have done original reporting and have taken advantage of online technology, such as interactive databases, primary-source interviews, and accompanying charts and graphs, in order to provide a thorough and graphically attractive report.

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Your best reporting and writing on diplomatic and foreign affairs for 2017 are wanted for the National Press Club’s annual journalism contest. The extended deadline is April 16.

The winners in both print/online and broadcast will get the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence.

The award is named for Hood, a distinguished diplomatic correspondent for The Associated Press and a founding member of the Club. Entrants must demonstrate an understanding of American foreign policy and how foreign affairs affect those policies.

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Moderator Marvin Kalb plans to lead a panel of experts exploring President Donald Trump’s relations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on the next Kalb Report on April 16 in the National Press Club ballroom.

The program begins at 8 p.m. sharp, and attendees should be seated by 7:45 p.m. Admission is free, but seats are limited. Club members can reserve by clicking here.

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On Thursday, April 12, at 6:30 p.m., Kate Germano plans to share her new book Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines Are Trained at a National Press Club Headliners Book Rap and explain why she believes the male-dominated Marine Corps has a systematic problem with female leadership and institutionalized gender bias.

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The National Press Club's Fourth Estate Restaurant plans to host an Italian Wine Dinner on Tuesday, April 17, at 6:30 p.m. featuring Francine Segan.

Tickets are $85 single/$160/ couple with a 15 percent discount for Club members ($72.25 single/$136/couple) and can be purchased by clicking here.

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Tom Toles, the Pulitzer-Prize winning editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post, will headline the Silver Owls’ Spring Hoot at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in the National Press Club ballroom.

The Hoot is open to all Club members and their guests. Tickets are $35, which covers one of the Club’s superb sit-down dinners, preceded by a cash bar. Reservations can be made at on the Club's website, by calling 202-662-7501 or emailing reservations@press.org.

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Sheila Tate, who served as press secretary to former First Lady Nancy Reagan from 1981 to 1985, plans to offer a glimpse into Reagan's personal life in a discussion about her book Lady in Red: An Intimate Portrait of Nancy Reagan at a National Press Club Headliners Book Rap on Wednesday, April 4, at 6:30 p.m.

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The National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Club's Professional Development Committee are offering a workshop on using the Congress.gov website on April 2 at 9:30 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room.

Tickets for Club members are $5 each; for the general public $10. RSVP required; tickets can be purchased here.

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The time is here for Washington regional writers to get their entries in to the National Press Club journalism contest. The deadline has been extended to April 16 to allow a little more time to get the entries in.

For Club members, entries are free, others pay $50 per entry. The awards will be given at a banquet this summer at the Club.

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Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, plans to discuss the nation’s pending pension crisis and the new, bipartisan congressional committee that was formed to find a solution at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on Thursday, April 12.

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