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NPC Headliners Luncheon: Panera Bread Founder Ron Shaich
Livestream will begin 4/26 at 1:00pm ET. In 2017 Panera Bread founder Ron Shaich took the company he had once proudly taken public in the early 1990s off the public stock exchange and stepped down as its CEO. Shaich did this, he said, to protect the fast-casual empire and its more than one hundred thousand employees from falling prey to the pressures of shareholders chasing short-term profits. On Friday, April 26, Shaich will deliver a speech at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon detailing why he believes Wall Street’s fixation on short-term profits has led to greater social…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Jill Abramson - "Merchants of Truth"
Award-winning journalist Jill Abramson, former executive editor of The New York Times, will deliver an insider’s look at the transformation of journalism and the business of news at a Headliners breakfast conversation on Feb. 14 at 9 a.m. in the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Restaurant. Abramson will discuss and sign her new book, “Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts.” Doors open with a light breakfast of assorted pastries, coffee and tea at 8:30 a.m. The program will begin promptly at 9 a.m. Tickets cost $10 for members and $15 for non-members. When…
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Commemorating 400 Years of African American History
NPC Headliners Book Event: Mark Bowden - "The Last Stone"
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NPC General Membership Meeting
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NPC Headliners Luncheon: CBS's Scott Pelley on "Truth Worth Telling"
Livestream will begin 5/22 at 1:00pm ET. 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley has been a reporter for more than 45 years and has been an eyewitness to many of the historic events that have shaped our world as we know it today. Pelley will share his new memoir, “TRUTH WORTH TELLING: A Reporter’s Search for Meaning in the Stories of our Times,” at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon, Wednesday, May 22. Lunch will be served in the Club’s Fourth Estate Room at 12:30 p.m., with remarks beginning at 1:00 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session ending at 2:00 p.m. Pelley will sign…
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The 2019 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Confidence Index Launch Event
NPC International Correspondents Team
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CAC's 6th Annual Home Stretch
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Algerian Protest
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Four Former Asst. Attorneys General Look at Civil Rights & DOJ Then & Now
White supremacists march through a southern city. The federal courts are hearing cases involving issues of voting rights and discrimination. Is it 1965 or 2017? Former assistant attorneys general from both Republican and Democratic administrations will appear at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event on Thurs., Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. in the Club’s Fourth Estate to discuss the federal government’s role in protecting civil rights. This is the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. The four panelists who each led the division will look…
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NPC Speakers News Conference with Matt Dillon, Actor
Oscar-nominated actor and screenwriter Matt Dillon will discuss his recent visit to western Myanmar and reports of a humanitarian crisis among the Muslim ethnic minority, known as the Rohingya refugees, at an NPC Speakers Newsmakers event, Thursday, June 11 at 9:00 am.One of the first celebrities to spotlight the plight of the Rohingyas, Dillon toured the region at the request of Rohingya activist Thun Khin during an Asian promotional tour for his new TV series “Wayward Pines.”Dillon will be joined by Michael Gabaudan, President of Refugees International. Gabaudan previously served as the UN…
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