Press Freedom
NPC Lends its Voice to Coalition Decrying Sentencing of Ethiopian Blogger
May 3, 2013
The National Press Club joined with other human rights and journalism organizations in criticizing an Ethiopian court decision upholding an 18-year jail sentence for a blogger in that country. The groups say the man, Eskinder Nega, has been unfairly convicted on specious terrorism charges. The…
Read MoreNational Press Club Announces Press Freedom Award Winners for 2013
May 3, 2013
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the National Press Club announced the winners of its 2013 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Awards: Zeynep Kuray, a woman reporter from Turkey, which jails more journalists than any other nation; and, in the United States, "The Whistleblower." Each year, the…
Read MoreNational Press Club marks 20th year of World Press Freedom Day, May 3
May 3, 2013
The National Press Club commemorated the 20th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day today with a sober reminder of how unfree the press is in most of the world and a pledge to keep working to change that. Created in 1993 by the United Nations General Assembly, World Press Freedom Day is celebrated…
Read MorePanel to explore 'The New International Media: Filling a Vacuum or Pushing Agenda?'
April 25, 2013
The National Press Club will host a panel discussion May 2 to take a close look at the growing clout of several new media organizations that are at least partly government owned. The discussion is sponsored by the Club's Press Freedom Committee and it will occur on the eve of World Press Freedom…
Read MorePress Club teams with National Endowment for Democracy to discuss Internet freedom
April 8, 2013
Regulation of the Internet is expected to be the subject of a panel discussion on April 24 at the National Press Club. Just over a week ahead of World Press Freedom Day, the National Press Club’s Press Freedom Committee and the Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for…
Read MorePress Club: Judge should drop effort to compel reporter to reveal anonymous sources
April 5, 2013
The National Press Club on April 5 respectfully urged a Colorado judge to drop his push to force a reporter to reveal her confidential sources for a story about the alleged shooter in the last July’s shooting spree in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater. Jana Winter of Fox News reported days after the…
Read MoreVideo: How Post 9/11 Antiterror Laws are Being Used Globally to Crush Press Freedom
March 25, 2013
On March 12, 2013, the National Press Club's Freedom of the Press Committee held a moderated panel discussion on how laws enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are being used to crush press freedom. Following the Sept. 11 attacks and the opening of the United States' war on terror, dozens of…
Read MoreNational Press Club: Where Sunshine Happens
March 8, 2013
The National Press Club's Press Freedom Committee has a full slate of activities planned for Sunshine Week, a national initiative to promote a dialogue on the importance of open government and freedom of information. This non-partisan, non-profit initiative is celebrated in mid-March each year to…
Read MoreClub to mark Sunshine Week with panel on Freedom of Information Act March 14
March 1, 2013
During Sunshine Week March 10-16, the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Club's Professional Affairs and Freedom of the Press Committees plan to help journalists and others obtain information that the government might not want you to have. Reporters and watchdogs will offer tips on…
Read MoreNational Press Club asks President Obama to fulfill FOIA promises
February 25, 2013
The National Press Club joined a coalition of 49 groups writing to President Barack Obama last week to underscore concern that the administration isn't living up to its open-government goals. The president issued a memorandum on January 21, 2009 -- his first full day in office -- to all federal…
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