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NPC Headliners Book Event: David Maraniss - "A Good American Family"
Journalist David Maraniss, whose coverage of Bill Clinton as a presidential candidate earned a Pulitzer Prize, will discuss his latest book, “A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father,” at a National Press Club Headliners breakfast event on Friday, May 17. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. with a light breakfast of coffee, tea, muffins and pastries. The program begins promptly at 9 a.m. Maraniss, an associate editor at The Washington Post, has written 11 books, including biographies of Barack Obama, Vince Lombardi, Al Gore and Roberto Clemente. In his twelfth book, he turns his journalist’s…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Review of the 2018 Hurricane Season
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, March 5, 10 a.m. in the Club’s Bloomberg 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 drivers for hurricanes and what people can do to prepare for the 2019…
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ACTA's HowCollegesSpendMoney.com Launch
T.H.O. hosts Ret. U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Global CEOs Join Forces to Mitigate Cybersecurity Threats to SMBs
Note New Date - 12/17/18 More than half of U.S. small businesses would be unprofitable within a month if they lost permanent access to essential data from a crippling cyber-attack. Despite the ominous statistics surrounding the consequences of a breach, many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) report doing very little to protect themselves because they lack the needed resources, capabilities and knowledge to do so. As we saw with the 2013 Target breach and this year’s widely-noted PageUp incident, failing to secure SMBs not only leaves those organizations at risk, but also the world's…
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U.S. Reps. Ellison and Carson, Congress' only Muslim Members
U.S. Reps. Ellison and Carson, Congress' Only Muslim Members, at National Press Club Newsmaker May 24 Will Discuss Islamophobia and Hateful Rhetoric Directed At MuslimsWashington – U.S. Representatives Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and André Carson (D-Ind.) will discuss the rhetoric attacking Muslims and the Islamophobia in this presidential election year during a National Press Club Newsmaker on May 24 at 9:30 a.m. in the Club's Bloomberg Room. As the only two Muslims in Congress, Ellison and Carson will speak about the rise of hateful and anti-Muslim speech, violence, and cultural ignorance in…
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Multimedia Journalism Fundamentals: It’s Not Just Point and Shoot!
The Ukraine Crisis: Is Nuclear Conflict Likely?
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Basic Excel Skills for Reporters
Excel is packed with features to put you in control of your data, helping you to follow campaign money and holding accountable the officials who spend our tax dollars. Instructor JoElla Straley will orient reporters with basic and powerful features that make data analysis a snap, including importing, formatting and sorting. She will also introduce the fabulous PivotTable. The class will run from 9:00-11:00 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room. Registration is $20 for NPC members; $40 public. All sales are final.
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Instagram in the Newsroom
More and more newsrooms are using Instagram as an innovative reporting tool, but how do you leverage it to find story and visual ideas, and for reporting on stories? Eric Weisbrod, Digital Producer, Cross Platform Programming at CNN will teach a session from 9:00-10:30 a.m. showing you how to use Instagram to create and push out your own images, build your social media community, and find story ideas. This event is made possible by a generous grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation.
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NPC Events Committee
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NPC Speakers Press Conference with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., will speak about corporate international tax reform at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Senator Warren’s speech, sponsored by the National Press Club Speakers Committee, will follow the format of an NPC lunch, but lunch will not be served. The event, to be held in the Fourth Estate Restaurant, will begin promptly at 12:30 p.m. and include a question-and-answer session ending at 1:30 p.m. Due to limited seating, this event is open only to journalist members of the National Press Club and accredited journalists with ID. Advance registration…
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