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Dinner and a Movie Night
Members and guests are invited to Dinner and a Movie Night on May 9th in the Reliable Source featuring Academy Award Nominee, Quvenzhane Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild. The movie will begin at 7:00 p.m. Beasts of the Southern Wild highlights the life of Hushpuppy ( Wallis) in a Louisiana Bayou where optimism and fantasy take her on an adventure to find her mother in the midst of a terrible storm. The movie was nominated for four Academy Awards in 2012 including Best Actress, Best Director, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Those attending Dinner and a Movie night are welcome…
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E-Discovery: Will Software Replace Lawyers, Threaten Fairness?
The year 2012 was a landmark year – for the first time, federal and state judges published opinions approving lawyers’ use of new forms of software and technology to find responsive documents in huge data repositories. Is the legal profession ready to embrace these new 21st century techniques based on mathematical algorithms? Will they eliminate the armies of young lawyers and contract attorneys now so necessary for large-scale document production? And do these new techniques raise fairness issues in litigation where only one party has access to highly sophisticated software? Scheduled to…
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Freedom of the Press Committee meeting
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NPC New Member Orientation
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NPC Tour hosted by the Freelance and History Committees
The Freelance Committee will be partnering with the History Committee to offer a tour of the National Press Club to current and potential freelance members on March 7 at 4 pm. The tour, conducted by Gil Klein, will cover the Club's storied past, view the broadcast and working journalist facilities, and discuss the features that make the Club so attractive to freelancers. The tour will conclude in the Reliable Source for networking.
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Dinner and a Movie Night: Act of Valor
Visit the Reliable Source on February 7th for Dinner and a Movie Night featuring "Act of Valor". "Act of Valor" highlights a specific mission with seven Navy SEALs to find an assailant after a terrorist plot results in the assasination of a U.S. Ambassador and his family. The movie features heart-pounding action and was nominated for a Golden Globe in 2012. The movie will be shown in the McClendon Room. Dinner and Movie Night guests are welcome to dine within the Reliable Source while enjoying the movie.
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NPC Board of Governors Dinner
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First Friday Taco Night - Bring in 2018!
First Friday Taco Night is back at the National Press Club for 2018. If your New Year’s resolutions include “meet more people at the NPC,” we have the right way to kick it off. Taco Night runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. every Friday in the Reliable Source, including Jan. 5. As a reminder, Club members and their guests can still come to Taco Night every Friday as usual, nothing changes here. The first Friday of each month, for those interested, is designated to help newer Club members get acquainted with the Club’s decades-old tradition of Friday night tacos, as well as to remind veteran members…
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Free Speech Week: Know Your Reporting Rights - Learn when to not back down
Livestream will begin 10/20 at 1:30pm ET. Know Your Reporting Rights: Learn when to not back down Please join us during Free Speech Week on Friday, October 20, 1:30pm to 3:00pm EDT, for an important discussion on the First Amendment and reporters’ rights that will be streamed on Facebook Live at www.facebook.com/RTDNA.RTDNF. RTDNA, the National Press Club Journalism Institute, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and Reel Media Group are co-sponsoring the event, at which student and professional journalists will have the opportunity to learn from media law…
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"El Paso" Screening and Panel on Journalists Fleeing Mexico's Violence
"El Paso" Screening and Panel on Journalists Fleeing Mexico's Violence The National Press Club's Journalism Institute will host a screening of Everardo González' film, "El Paso," which tells the story of journalists fleeing their home country of Mexico to seek safe haven in the United States. The screening will be followed by a short panel discussion on the dangers Mexico's journalists still face, and their difficulties in receiving asylum in the U.S. González, anaward-winning documentarian, sheds light on the journalists who risk their lives covering the Mexican drug trade. The film tells…
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