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The Digital Learning Gap
Mark your calendar! Cox is making an announcement with special guests and you don’t want to miss it. We cannot allow this pandemic to create an irreversible homework gap for students without Internet. Join Pat Esser, president and CEO of Cox Communications, and Michael Powell, president and CEO, NCTA – The Internet & Television Association, for an exclusive event to highlight the new challenges the pandemic has presented in today’s learning environment and what schools and families can do to connect and thrive in this new phase of the digital divide. This virtual event will take place…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, who is seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. Booker was elected to the Senate from New Jersey in 2013 after serving as mayor of Newark, and was re-elected in 2014. He is up for re-election again in 2020 and a state law allows him to simultaneously run for president and the Senate. This news conference will take place in the Club’s 4th Floor Broadcast Operations Center, and is open to credentialed media and members of the National Press Club; however, registration is…
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Kennedy-Nixon Debate Makeup Artist
Presidential makeup artist, author and media coach Lillian Brown will be interviewed in a one-hour broadcast at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 7, in the Broadcast Operations Center on the fourth floor. Admission is free, but seating is limited. Reserve at (202) 662-7501 or [email protected]’s interview is in conjunction with the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy-Nixon debates and is co-sponsored by the Broadcast and History and Heritage committees. Brown applied makeup to both Kennedy and Nixon before three of the four televised debates in 1960. She will also discuss…
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Conference: Transcending the Israel lobby at Home & Abroad
When: March 3 at 630 PM and all day March 4. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-conference-transcending-the-israel-lobby-at-home-and-abroad-tickets-72303041343 Contact Info: [email protected] More information: https://IsraelLobbyCon.org The annual IsraelLobbyCon organized by the American Education Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy gathers for its sixth year at the National Press Club. This year's speakers include Hanan Ashrawi, Sut Jhally, Gideon Levy, Joseph Massad, Rahdika Sainath, Don…
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The Inauguration of Jen Judson - 115th President of the National Press Club
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On Friday evening May 6, 2022, one of the great traditions in Press Club culture will take place as hundreds from the journalism and educational communities join to celebrate the Inauguration of the 115th President of the National Press Club, Jen Judson. Judson has been covering defense news in Washington since 2012. After working at Politico and Inside Defense, she has been working at Defense News for more than a decade, reporting on the complicated bureaucracy of the Pentagon and Capitol Hill for policy-makers and readers in the defense industry. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Judson…
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49th Annual National Press Club Journalism Awards Dinner
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The National Press Club will celebrate the best in broadcast and print stories from breaking news and Washington regional reporting to humor, political journalism and many other categories at the 49th Annual Journalism Awards Dinner. A special presentation of the President's Award will honor the late Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Please join us at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, August 31st starting with a reception in the Holeman Lounge followed at 7 p.m. with dinner and program in the ballroom. This event is business attire.
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CBC 2022 African & Caribbean International Leadership Conference and Presidential Awards Gala
CBC 2022 African & Caribbean International Leadership Conference and Presidential Awards Gala Honoring Community and Faith Based Leaders who have made a tremendous impact on the global African diaspora. This event will be held in collaboration with the United States 51st Annual Legislative Conference (ALC) of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Convention. Our theme for this year is “United in Faith for Social Change”. The leadership awards gala honors the accomplishments of renowned leaders globally, volunteers, and leaders in community development, diplomats, elected officials,…
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‘Make Blue the New Pink’ Gala
We are excited to host the ‘Make Blue the New Pink’ Gala on November 11th, 2022 at the National Press Club in Washington DC. This year’s theme, “Make Blue the New Pink” was designed to bring attention to the reality that prostate cancer diagnoses are increasing and surpassing the number of breast cancer diagnoses. Just as pink ribbon awareness is synonymous with breast cancer, we hope to increase the recognition of blue-ribbon awareness for prostate cancer as a similar symbol. United in the journey to impact Veterans’ lives through knowledge and awareness surrounding prostate cancer screening…
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2022 Silver Owls Fall Hoot
Join us for the Silver Owls Fall Hoot at 6 p.m., Friday, Sept. 16 at The National Press Club. The Hoot is open to all Press Club members and their guests. Tickets include the club's superb three-course dinner. The meal is preceded by a cash bar. Silver Owls are those who have been members of the Press Club for 25 years or longer. Golden Owls are those who have been members 50 years or more. And Platinum Owls have roosted at the Club for 60 years or longer. If you are a new Silver, Gold or Platinum Owl and you attend the Hoot, you will be introduced and presented with a certificate attesting…
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2010 Silver Owls Fall Hoot
Silver Owls Fall Hoot Oct. 21 Salutes C-SPAN’s Thirty Years of Press Club Luncheon Telecasts In keeping with its new theme, “Celebrating the Legacy” of the National Press Club, the Silver Owls on Oct. 21 will take a look back at three decades of C-SPAN telecasts of the Club’s Speaker Luncheons. Club members and participants in the first of the cable network programs on October 7, 1980 will be in the spotlight at the Fall Hoot and traditional roast beef dinner. The initial telecast featured Federal Communications Commission Chairman Charles Ferris and was followed immediately by a “call-in” to…
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