Irv Chapman is featured speaker for March 26 Legends of Broadcast dinner

Broadcast journalist Irv Chapman, a National Press Club member for 62 years, will be honored at a dinner at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 26. Tickets are available now.

Chapman has been a Washington and foreign correspondent for several 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 groundbreaking visit to the United States and traveled with Pope John Paul II on trips to Asia and the pontiff's native Poland. Chapman later worked 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 Club member 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. Chapman will make remarks and then open the floor to an informal Q&A session to end by 8:30. Seating is limited to 35 people.

Cost of the three-course dinner in the Fourth Estate Winners' Room with two glasses of wine is $70 for National Press Club members.