National Press Club

"Before 9/11, there was 10/12," U.S. Navy Commander (ret.) Kirk Lippold told a National Press Club audience at a July 10 discussion of his book, "Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole."

Lippold, former commander of the guided missile destroyer USS Cole, gave a gripping account of of Al Qaeda’s Oct. 12, 2000 suicide attack on his ship, 11 months before Al Qaeda attacked New York and Washington.

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Bloomberg News won a top award for political analysis for its examination of Super PACS, while The Arizona Republic and The Associated Press shared the honors for the Club's first breaking news award for print in the 2012 National Press Club journalism competition.

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Societal violence behaves like a contagious disease, but can be prevented and curbed with intervention, panelists from CeaseFire and the American Islamic Congress said at at a National Press Club Newsmaker June 28.

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The National Press Club is saddened to learn of the untimely death of Armando Montano, the recipient of the club's Ellen Masin Persina scholarship in 2008. He was 22.

``We remember Armando as a vibrant young man with so much promise,'' said National Press Club President Theresa Werner. ``We would like to extend our sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.''

Armando used his scholarship to study at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa.

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As the dust settled following the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, panelists at a June 29 National Press Club Newsmaker said some consumer confusion is sure to follow and cautioned that the legal wrangling may not be over.

A representative from a community-based health care provider and an integrated health care insurer both expressed relief that the law was upheld, but Jenny Englerth, executive director and chief executive officer of Family First Health in Central Pennsylvania, said consumers are going to be confused.

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It is important for the United States to reduce its income inequality and increase its innovation, said Richard Boucher, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in introducing the organization's biennial survey of the U.S. economy at a National Press Club Newsmaker June 26

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The National Press Club's softball team did it again!

The Club's softballers capped their regular season in the Metropolitan Media Softball League by winning their second consecutive Layhill Division title, and third in four years.

The coed team will be the sixth seed when it takes its seven-game winning streak into the playoffs, which begin Saturday, July 14. The team's first opponent will be Comcast Sports Net.

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"The Kalb Report" and "This Just In!" -- two of the National Press Club’s premier programs produced in partnership with The George Washington University Global Media Institute -- won top honors with Gold World Medals at the 2012 New York Festivals International Radio Awards competition.

In addition, "The Kalb Report" program commemorating the 10th anniversary of September 11 received an overall Grand Award at the gala held in Manhattan on June 18.

The two shows competed with hundreds of radio broadcast entries submitted from 28 countries to win the top honors.

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Khaled Hosseini, best-selling author of "Kite Runner" and spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said that the 5.7 million refugees who have returned to Afghanistan since 2002 constitute a quarter of the country's population.

Hosseini, an Afghan refugee to the United States at age 15, spoke at a June 20 Newsmaker event.

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Blogging is a powerful tool for establishing your "personal brand," but it is important to share your opinions explicitly or build a reputation for reliable objectivity.

That was key advice offered by Niv Elis, a breaking news editor at The Jerusalem Post and author of the newspaper's policy-focused blog, "The Bottom Line," during a lunchtime discussion of blogging at the Events Committee's Get It Online series June 19.

Among other insights he provided the audience of would-be bloggers, Elis said:

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