Broadcast-Podcast Team's upcoming meetings open to Club members

The National Press Club Broadcast-Podcast Team has its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 27, at 6 p.m. in the Cosgrove Lounge. Sign up here. NPC President Emily Wilkins, who is CNBC Washington correspondent, will attend the meeting and talk about broadcasters and the Club.

The next team meeting after that is on Monday, March 18, at 6 p.m. in the McClendon Room. Sign up here,

The Broadcast-Podcast Team serves as a forum for members interested in multimedia journalism, including radio, television, podcasting and digital. All Club members are welcome to join the discussions.

The team meets regularly and also sponsors periodic limited-access informal dinner events that allow Club members and their guests to hear the broadcast journalism honoree's remarks and participate in an intimate Q&A.

The next such event is the Legends of Broadcast dinner featuring Club member Irv Chapman on Tuesday, March 26. It starts at 6 p.m. with a cash bar in the Fourth Estate Winners Room. Dinner begins at 6:45 p.m. and ends by 8:30 p.m. The program consists of a chat over dinner with Chapman. There is a three course meal with 2 glasses of wine for $70 for Club members. Reserve and pay here. 

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 its 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 traveled 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 Jan. 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.