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Natural Gas Drilling
Energy Challenges Surrounding Natural Gas Drilling Environmental Experts to Discuss Need, Impacts For Natural Gas Drilling at National Press Club The National Press Club Newsmakers Committee will host a panel to discuss the challenges, impacts and need for natural gas drilling at a Newsmaker forum in the club's Lisagor Room at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 24, in the National Press Building, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. Experts to discuss this issue will be anti-drilling activist Adrian Kuzminski and Resources for the Future (RFF) official Alan Krupnick. Kuzminski argues that the cumulative…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Joanna Breyer on what to do "When Your Child is Sick"
Author and psychosocial counselor Joanna Breyer used her decades of experience working with sick children and their families to create the comprehensive field guide we all hope we will never need: “When Your Child is Sick: A Guide to Navigating the Practical and Emotional Challenges of Caring for a Child Who is Very Ill.” Breyer will lead an intimate conversation on how parents can take back some control and cope with the impossible at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Tuesday, November 13. This event will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the Club’s Lisagor Room, and will feature a…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: The President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor
As part of his official trip to Washington, D.C., the President of the Republic of Slovenia Borut Pahor will deliver an address at a National Press Club Headliners event, to be held in the Club’s Fourth Estate Room at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, September 28. President Borut Pahor was elected the fourth President of the Republic of Slovenia with 67.37 percent of the vote in December 2012. During his long political career, President Pahor has been elected member of the European Parliament, and has served as President of the National Assembly and Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia. This news…
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NPC Headliners Breakfast: MSNBC's Steve Kornacki & "The Birth of Political Tribalism"
It seems to be the most popular rhetorical question posed by political pundits, cable news contributors, your coworkers, your friends, and even your Uber driver: when did we become so divided as a nation? In “The Red and The Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism,” MSNBC host and NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki actually attempts to provide an answer and argues that, while the pressure had been building for decades, the final rupture that cracked our country in two can be traced back to one infamous date: November 7, 2000. On Friday, October 5 at 8:00 a.m…
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Eskinder Nega press conference at the National Press Club
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Cocktails, Conversation & Songs with "Madame Secretary" Actor Erich Bergen
Erich Bergen, who currently stars as Blake Moran on the CBS drama, Madam Secretary, will discuss his role as a Washington insider on the television series as well as sing a selection of songs at a special National Press Club Headliners event at 6 p.m., Tuesday, May 22, in the club’s Fourth Estate Room. In addition to his work in broadcast television, Bergen is known for his performance on stage and screen as Bob Gaudio in the Clint Eastwood-directed musical film, Jersey Boys, reprising his performance from the theatre production. Earlier this month, it was announced that Bergen would take on…
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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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"Photographing the President"
Iconic images of U.S. presidents burned in our minds often start with photos shot by White House photographers, both media and official staff photographers. Current and former White House photographers tell their stories about capturing those images in a National Press Club panel discussion called Photographing the President on Monday, Oct. 29 at 6:30 pm, a program of National Press Club's Photography Committee and World Press Photo DC. Bob McNeely, staff photographer for president Bill Clinton, is joined by veteran White House photographer Christy Bowe to describe what it takes to capture…
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CPJ Annual International Press Freedom Awards
The National Press Club's Press Freedom Committee co-sponors, as it does annually, a press conference with the Committee to Protect Journalists on November 18, to unveil the winners of the 2010 International Press Freedom Awards. The awards are given annually to journalists from around the world who fight to tell the truth under dangerous conditions. COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001 USA Phone: (212) 465 1004 Fax: (212) 465 9568 Web: www.cpj.org E-Mail: [email protected]: www.cpj.orgContact: Magnus AgE-mail: [email protected]: (212) 465-1004 x128 Media…
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