'Legends of Broadcasting' dinner to feature NPR's Nina Totenberg, May 28

NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg will be the National Press Club Broadcast & Podcast Team's newest guest at it series of "Legends of Broadcast" on Wednesday, May 28, at 6  p.m. in the Fourth Estate & Winners’ Room.

Totenberg is recognized for her extensive coverage of the Supreme Court and legal matters. Her reports air regularly on NPR's "All Things Considered," "Morning Edition" and "Weekend Edition."

Cost of the three-course dinner with two glasses of wine is $70 for National Press Club members. Purchase tickets online.

Totenberg's groundbreaking coverage of Anita Hill's allegations against Clarence Thomas led to a reopening of Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, earning NPR a George Foster Peabody Award and numerous other honors, including the George Polk Award and the Joan S. Barone Award. She has received multiple accolades for her work, including the Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcasting and the RTDNA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Totenberg is also the author of the bestselling memoir "Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships," and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 2023. She also is in the Society of Professional Journalists Washington, D.C., Chapter's Journalism Hall of Fame, inducted in 2014.

The "Legends of Broadcast" events, limited-access and informal, allow NPC members and their guests to hear each honoree's remarks and participate in an intimate Q&A.

A cash bar reception will begin at 6 p.m. with introductions and dinner following at 6:45 p.m. The guest of honor will make remarks and then open the floor to an informal Q&A session to end by 8:30 p.m.