Press Freedom
National Press Club Protests White House Treatment of Reporters
November 9, 2018
National Press Club leaders expressed outrage Thursday at President Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on the press and the White House’s revocation of a reporter’s credentials. Club President Andrea Edney said: “The president’s personal attacks on reporters, especially on CNN’s Jim Acosta, during a…
Read MoreNational Press Club award-winning journalist to judge who denied him asylum: "I must implore you for my life"
October 23, 2018
After eight hours of waiting outside an immigration courtroom, journalist Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto on Monday had an opportunity to make a personal appeal to the judge who last year ordered him deported to the country where he has been threatened with death. The hearing was delayed when Gutiérrez's…
Read MoreNational Press Club to hold moment of silence for Jamal Khashoggi Monday
October 20, 2018
The National Press Club will hold a moment of silence for Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi on Monday, Oct. 22, at about 1:15 p.m. Club members, staff and journalists will participate. People should gather near the main staircase in the lobby at 1 p.m. to organize and to hear some brief…
Read MoreStatement from National Press Club President Andrea Edney on Saudi confirmation of Jamal Khashoggi’s death
October 20, 2018
National Press Club President Andrea Edney issued the following statement Friday after the Saudi government acknowledged that Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at its consulate in Turkey: Along with journalists everywhere we mourn the death of our colleague Jamal Khashoggi. We…
Read MoreNational Press Club outraged by reports on missing Saudi journalist
October 7, 2018
National Press Club leaders expressed profound concern Saturday about the continued disappearance of a Saudi journalist and especially about reports he may have been killed by Saudi government personnel. Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post and a former editor-in-chief of the Saudi…
Read MoreNational Press Club wants answers on missing Saudi journalist
October 5, 2018
National Press Club leaders called on Saudi Arabian authorities to explain the whereabouts of a Saudi journalist who visited that country's consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 3 and never emerged. Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post and a former editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Al-…
Read MoreNational Press Club to Congress: Don't let drone regulations interfere with media coverage
September 26, 2018
The National Press Club on Wednesday is warning that new counter-drone authorities Congress is set to enact in the FAA re-authorization could interfere with media coverage and public access to important information. The House on Wednesday is scheduled to vote on a Federal Aviation Administration…
Read MoreNational Press Club condemns convictions of Reuters reporters in Myanmar
September 3, 2018
The National Press Club on Monday condemned the jail terms handed down to two journalists who exposed a genocide in Myanmar and committed to work to free them. The reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo of Reuters news service, are this year’s winners of the Club’s international John Aubuchon Press…
Read MoreNational Press Club honors former Denver Post editor with Press Freedom Award
August 23, 2018
The National Press Club Board of Governors announced Aug. 23 that Chuck Plunkett, a former editor at the Denver Post, will receive a 2018 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. In April of this year, Plunkett was responsible for producing a special six-page editorial section of the Denver Post that…
Read MoreNational Press Club urges freedom for Shawkan in open letter to Egyptian ambassador
July 27, 2018
On the eve of a scheduled verdict in the long-pending case of the photojournalist Shawkan, the National Press Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute sent an open letter to Egypt’s top diplomat in the United States about the Club’s 2016 Press Freedom award winner: Ambassador Yasser RedaEmbassy…
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