Past Speakers

NPC Virtual Book Event: Maria Hinojosa, "Once I Was You"

November 12, 2020

Award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa will discuss her book “Once I was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America," and the role she feels the Latinx community played in the 2020 election at a virtual Headliners Book event on Thursday, November 12 at 4 p.m. ET.  In "Once I Was You,"…

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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: Senator Bob Dole

November 11, 2020

Former Sen. Robert Dole, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will headline a National Press Club virtual Newsmaker event commemorating Veterans Day and the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11. He will be interviewed by Club President Michael…

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POSTPONED: NPC Newsmaker: U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie

November 10, 2020

This event, originally scheduled for 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, November 10, has been postponed. We will update this page with the new date and time as soon as it has been rescheduled. 

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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: Bob Costas

November 6, 2020

As the prime-time host of 11 Olympic games, seven Super Bowls, seven World Series, and 10 NBA finals, legendary broadcaster and play-by-play announcer Bob Costas has called some of the most significant moments in modern American sports history.  On Friday, November 6, Costas will join National…

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NPC Virtual Book Event: Erin Brockovich, "Superman's Not Coming"

October 30, 2020

Twenty years after the release of the movie that made her a household name, Erin Brockovich - the legal clerk turned consumer activist - is still fighting for the rights of Americans to clean, safe water. In her new book, “Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can…

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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: NIH Director Dr. Francis S. Collins

October 23, 2020

Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., the 16th Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will deliver brief remarks and engage in a virtual Q&A on the latest COVID-19 therapeutic and vaccine developments at a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker presentation on Friday, October 23 at 2:00…

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NPC Virtual Book Event: Kara Goldin, "Undaunted"

October 19, 2020

On Monday, Oct. 19, Hint founder and CEO Kara Goldin will discuss her new book, "Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters," and explain how she turned an unsweetened flavored water into one of the biggest beverage companies of the decade. The book blends stories from Goldin's own experience with…

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NPC Newsmaker: Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov

October 9, 2020

Garry Kasparov, the former World Chess Champion turned writer and political activist, will deliver a live address on the state of human rights and press freedom in his native Russia, as well as the related crackdown ongoing in Belarus, at a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker on Friday, October 9…

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NPC Virtual Book Event: Ted Jackson, "You Ought To Do A Story About Me"

October 5, 2020

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Ted Jackson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune will discuss  his book “You Ought To Do A Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption," at a virtual Headliners Book event on Monday, Oct. 5 at 1 p.m. ET.  The book…

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NPC Virtual Newsmaker: Dr. Jane Goodall

September 25, 2020

Renowned ethologist and environmentalist Dr. Jane Goodall will join National Press Club President Michael Freedman on Friday, September 25 at 2 p.m. for a live-streamed Headliners conversation about the state of the world during the Covid-19 pandemic and the on-going threats caused by climate…

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