Press Freedom
National Press Club and NPC Journalism Institute to Egyptian President: Free Shawkan
April 3, 2017
As Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi visits the White House on Monday for a meeting with President Donald Trump, the National Press Club and its Journalism Institute call on Egypt to release the club's 2017 Press Freedom award winner, Mahmoud Abou Zeid, a photojournalist who works under the…
Read MoreAs Turkish foreign minister visits, National Press Club and its Journalism Institute call on Turkey to free journalists
March 21, 2017
The foreign minister of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, appeared Tuesday, March 21 at the National Press Club for a privately organized event. Access to his speech and subsequent press conference was controlled by the event sponsors. The National Press Club is proud of our history providing a forum for…
Read MoreNPC protests White House blackballing of news organizations
February 24, 2017
Leaders of the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute expressed shock Friday about the White House press secretary’s decision to keep several news organizations which have written critical stories about President Trump out of one of his briefings. The White House…
Read MoreNational Press Club calls on Turkey to allow NYT reporter in country
January 18, 2017
The National Press Club released the following statement from President Jeff Ballou regarding the case of Rod Nordland, a correspondent for the New York Times, who was detained and expelled from Turkey on Tuesday while attempting to enter the country on a reporting trip. "We at the National Press…
Read MoreNational Press Club raises concerns about Trump's use of 'fake news'
January 11, 2017
The National Press Club raised concerns Wednesday about President-elect Donald Trump's continual use of the phrase “fake news” to criticize news stories that he disagrees with or that displease him. In his Jan. 11 press conference, Trump refused to field questions from certain reporters, accusing…
Read MoreNational Press Club Alarmed at Judge's Unconstitutional "Prior Restraint"
December 14, 2016
The National Press Club on Wednesday expressed dismay over a New Jersey judge’s unconstitutional decision to block a newspaper from publishing information it lawfully obtained regarding a child custody case. Mercer County Judge Craig Corson recently issued a temporary injunction preventing The…
Read MoreNational Press Club alarmed by press conditions in Turkey
November 1, 2016
The National Press Club on Tuesday voiced alarm over deteriorating press freedom conditions in Turkey, where authorities moved this week to detain a prominent opposition newspaper editor and at least a dozen other media figures. Murat Sabuncu, the editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper…
Read MoreNational Press Club concerned about charges against filmmakers
October 24, 2016
National Press Club President Thomas Burr expressed concern Monday about reports that independent filmmakers have been arrested for documenting environmentalists’ protests of oil pipelines across four states. Filmmakers Deia Schlosberg and Lindsey Goodwin-Grayzel and cameraman Carl Davis, who were…
Read MoreNational Press Club President Thomas Burr criticizes Trump campaign for 'journalist intimidation'
October 17, 2016
For months The National Press Club has repeatedly expressed concern for U.S. Republican presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump's treatment of our colleagues reporting on the campaign. After lifting an ill-advised access ban on colleagues who wished to cover Mr. Trump during the primaries, as the…
Read MoreNational Press Club encouraged by end to Trump's media blacklist
September 7, 2016
National Press Club President Thomas Burr welcomed reports Wednesday that Donald Trump's campaign has ended its blacklist of certain news organizations, though Burr noted the ban should have never existed in the first place and its removal was long overdue. For almost a year, the Republican…
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