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Rejuvenating America's Economy: Financial Experts to Discuss State of Economy
Rejuvenating America's Economy: Financial Experts to Discuss State of Economy At National Press Club Newsmakers News Conference More than four years after the recession officially ended, the economy is stuck in second gear. A panel of financial experts will address the state of the U.S. economy and financial system now and what needs to be done to pull America out of this tepid period of growth at a Newsmakers news conference at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The experts will speak to the Federal Reserve’s policies, the subsequent changes in interest rates and the resulting…
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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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NPC Board of Governors Dinner
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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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Inauguration Story Tips
Inauguration Story TipsOn Jan. 10, veteran reporters will discuss how to get good stories covering the presidential inauguration. The program is presented by the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Professional Development Committee. The program, which is $5 for members and $10 for non-members, starts at 9.30am on Tuesday, Jan 10 in the Murrow Room of the Club. RSVP required, using the form below. Confirmed panelists include:• Jonathan Salant, Washington correspondent for New Jersey Advance Media, a former Press Club president who has covered every inauguration since 1989; •…
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Sen. Bob Graham to discuss classified documents detailing Saudi Involvement in 9/11 Plot
Last month, the Administration and Congress released a redacted version of the missing 28 pages from the Congressional Joint Inquiry into the 9/11 attacks. These formerly classified documents reinforce the belief that the 19 hijackers—most of whom spoke little English, had limited education and had never before visited the United States—did not act alone in perpetrating the sophisticated 9/11 plot. It suggests a strong linkage between those terrorists and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi charities, and other Saudi stakeholders. On Aug. 31, at 10 am, in the National Press Club’s White Room…
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Embracing Algorithms and Predictive Analytics to Advance the Law
How the Legal Profession is Embracing Algorithms and Predictive Analytics to Advance the Law Washington, DC – We are increasingly living in an algorithmic world, where advanced analytical techniques are being used to predict human behavior across a spectrum of disciplines. The legal profession is hardly immune, and has started to embrace predictive analytics in litigation and in solving client problems associated with Big Data. Experts on how the law is advancing in our algorithmic era will discuss the topic at a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on March 24. The panel will be…
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Women's Groups Promote Sex Education for Policymakers
Women’s Groups Promote Sex Education for Policymakers; New Effort Launched to Send “Our Bodies, Ourselves” to Congress;Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns To Join Advocates at NPC Newsmaker WASHINGTON — With only a few weeks until the elections, women’s organizations are mobilizing to “educate Congress” on women’s health and reproductive issues by sending a copy of the landmark book, “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” to every member of Congress. Supermodel Christy Turlington Burns, who founded Every Mother Counts, will join the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, more widely known as Our Bodies,…
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Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cyprus, Dr. Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, will discuss prospects for a solution to the Cyprus question and how it would positively affect security, stability and cooperation in the Southeast Mediterranean. Also, recent and forthcoming meetings between leaders of the two parties in the context of UN negotiations; developments in the regional energy sector and their economic, political and strategic significance; and Cyprus' EU presidency in the second half of 2012.
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