Past Speakers
NPC Virtual Newsmaker: The Lincoln Project
September 24, 2020
Republican political strategists Steve Schmidt and Rick Wilson, co-founders of The Lincoln Project, will give a candid assessment of the state of the 2020 race and the Lincoln Project's strategy to defeat Donald Trump and the Republican senators who support him at a virtual Headliners Newsmaker on…
Read MoreNPC Virtual Book Event: Lisa Napoli, "Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News"
September 22, 2020
How did a former billboard salesman, baseball team owner and America’s Cup winner who hated news end up as the father of 24-hour news? Journalist Lisa Napoli, author of "Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN and the Birth of 24-Hour News," will describe how Ted Turner flipped the switch on media with the…
Read MoreNPC Virtual Newsmaker: Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden
September 11, 2020
As the United States confronts difficult questions about race and equality in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of law enforcement, Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden has engaged some of our nation’s great literary figures in conversation to highlight what literature and poetry can…
Read MoreNPC Virtual Book Event: Brian Stelter, "HOAX"
September 8, 2020
Over the course of two years, CNN Worldwide’s chief media correspondent and Reliable Sources anchor Brian Stelter interviewed more than 250 current and former Fox News insiders in a bid to understand why the network dropped the “fair and balanced” claim and embraced “fake news.” Stelter chronicles…
Read MoreNPC Virtual Book Event: Max Brooks, "Devolution"
September 3, 2020
Bestselling author Max Brooks will deliver a talk entitled, “Zombies, Bigfoot, and COVID: How Fiction Can Prepare Us For Disasters,” at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 1 p.m. Brooks is perhaps best known for reinventing the modern zombie genre with his "Zombie…
Read MoreNPC Virtual Newsmaker: The Commission on Presidential Debates
September 1, 2020
All three co-chairs of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) -- Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., Dorothy S. Ridings, and Kenneth Wollack -- will join National Press Club (NPC) President Michael Freedman to discuss the upcoming 2020 general election presidential debates as part of a special NPC…
Read MoreNPC Virtual Newsmaker: Crisis in the College Vote 2020
August 31, 2020
Washington attorney Thurgood Marshall, Jr. and Paul Loeb, the founder of the non-partisan Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP), will speak at a virtual National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event on August 31 at 1 p.m. They will discuss mounting problems that could affect college voters and…
Read MoreNPC Virtual Book Event: Jacob Soboroff, "Separated"
August 27, 2020
In June of 2018 award-winning NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff traded his mic and camera for a small blue notebook and walked into a large detention facility where 1,500 migrant boys were being held after being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. The notes he took…
Read MoreNPC Virtual Newsmaker: Harold Holzer, "The Presidents vs. the Press"
August 25, 2020
It is a story as old as the republic itself: the love-hate-tolerate relationship between America’s presidents and the journalists who cover them. On Tuesday, August 25, award-winning presidential historian Harold Holzer will explain how we got to this era of “fake news” and “alternative facts” with…
Read MoreNPC Virtual Newsmaker: Amb. John Bolton
August 18, 2020
Did President Trump really ask the Ukranian President to "do a favor" and investigate Hunter Biden in exchange for U.S. aid? Was Trump always antagonistic toward China? On Tuesday, August 18, Ambassador John Bolton, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor and author of “The Room Where It…
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