Press Releases
Apollo-11 Astronaut Michael Collins rare long-form interview with Marvin Kalb April 2019
April 29, 2021
WASHINGTON, April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On April,15 2019 Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins came to the National Press Club in advance of the 50th Anniversary of that historic lunar mission to speak about his experience in 1969 and to talk about the importance of the press in our democratic…
Read MoreU.S. Press Leaders Decry Abuse of Journalists in Twin Cities
April 20, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 20, 2021--Leaders of the National Press Club and National Press Club Journalism Institute warned law-enforcement personnel in the Twin Cities to heed the Constitution and permit law-abiding journalists to cover protests there without interference or abuse. Over the last week…
Read MoreU.S. Press Leaders Call For Immediate Release of AP Photographer Thein Zaw
March 4, 2021
WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The following is a statement by National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and National Press Club Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane on the arrest and detention of AP Photographer Thein Zaw in Myanmar: We call on authorities in Myanmar to release,…
Read MorePress Club Leaders urge Congress to hold hearings on just-released Khashoggi Report
February 26, 2021
WASHINGTON – The following is a statement by National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and National Press Club Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane on the release by the United States government of a long-awaited report on the murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal…
Read MoreU.S. Journalists to Poland’s Leaders: Hands Off Free Press
February 12, 2021
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2021-- National Press Club leaders, in a statement Friday, urged Poland’s government to halt a recent campaign to undermine independent news organizations there. The anti-press effort by Poland’s right-wing government follows the lead of a largely completed push in Hungary to…
Read MoreU.S. Press Leaders Urge India to Release Long-Jailed Journalist
February 8, 2021
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2021--National Press Club leaders spoke out Monday to urge the government of India to release from prison Aasif Sultan, a Kashmiri journalist who has been unjustly detained for two and a half years. Sultan, a writer for the Kashmir Narrator, was arrested in August 2018 on an…
Read MoreU.S. Press Leaders Welcome Egypt’s Overdue Release of Jailed Journalist
February 6, 2021
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 2021--National Press Club leaders expressed relief Saturday at news that al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein has been released from prison after four years of unjust detention without trial. The following is a statement from National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews…
Read MoreU.S. Journalists Laud Lawmakers’ Efforts for Press Freedom
February 4, 2021
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2021--America’s leading professional organization for journalists applauded on Thursday efforts by U.S. lawmakers to advance press freedom. Legislation filed in the House Thursday would bar foreign aid for government entities that the U.S. government determines to have…
Read MoreNational Press Club: Allow Journalists to Bring Protective Gear to Inauguration
January 20, 2021
WASHINGTON – Journalism leaders Michael Freedman, President of the National Press Club and Angela Greiling Keane, President of the National Press Club Journalism Institute issued the following statement on the discussion around how reporters and photographers may protect themselves while covering…
Read MorePress Leaders Call for Probes Into Jan. 6 Attacks on Reporters
January 11, 2021
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2021--Leaders of the National Press Club and National Press Club Journalism Institute are calling for criminal investigations into those responsible for violence and threats against journalists during last week's attack on the U.S. Capitol. "Journalists are witnesses and…
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