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NPC Headliners Book Event: Dorothy Butler Gilliam - "Trailblazer"
Legendary civil rights journalist and activist Dorothy Butler Gilliam will share her aptly titled new memoir, "Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Monday, January 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the Club’s Zenger Room. Gilliam’s more than 60-year-career in journalism began in the segregated South where she made a name for herself reporting on the integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas for the Tri-State Defender. In 1961 she became the first black woman reporter for the Washington Post and worked…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Review of the 2018 Hurricane Season & Forecast for the Future
This event has been postponed due to the ongoing government shutdown. With another challenging Hurricane Season in the books, NOAA hurricane forecasting expert Dr. Gerry Bell and MIT disaster resilience expert Jeremy Gregory will discuss the impacts of the 2018 season and the status of the 2017 season rebuilding effort at a National Press Club Newsmaker on Tuesday, January 15th, 10 a.m. in the Club’s Zenger Room. Bell, a hurricane climate specialist and research meteorologist at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) in College Park, Maryland, will focus on the 2018 season impacts, climate…
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NPC Board of Governors
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Rep. Ben Ray Luján, Democratic Congressional Campaign Chair
NPC House Committee
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NPC Board of Governors
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Former Chief Prosecutor for Guantanamo to discuss lawsuit against Library of Congress
Updated Report of Forced Organ Harvesting in China
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Covering Conventions
The full video from this event is available here.With the Republicans meeting in Cleveland and the Democrats in Philadelphia next month, the National Press Club’s Journalism Institute will focus on covering national party conventions at the next in its series of Campaign Boot Camp programs. Get tips from veteran journalists about how to find stories inside and outside the convention hall, and find out from the House Press Gallery staff about logistics surrounding credentials. The program on Tuesday, May 31 [the day after Memorial Day] runs from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. and is open to the public…
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NPC Board of Governors
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Photographer Phil West Presents a Photo Safari with the Big Five
Join the Travel and Photography Committees for an adventure through African photo safaris and photography. Our speaker, Phil West, is a wildlife photographer and safari guide based in Kenya and spent most of his childhood in Tsavo National Park. His specialty is adventure and walking/photo safaris as well as tracking big game on foot. He has led safaris all over Africa, from tracking desert elephants in the Namibian Desert and canoeing the Zambezi River, to following gorillas and chimps through the Ugandan Forests. Phil was hired by the Discovery Channel as the presenter of several wildlife…
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Voting in the 2016 Election
Food & Beer Dinner with Chef Daniel Burns & Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø
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