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2024 Health Policy Summit, "The Healthcare Cost Breaking Point: Policy Solutions for Affordability"
2024 Health Policy Summit, "The Healthcare Cost Breaking Point: Policy Solutions for Affordability" March 13 @ 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm EST To register and to learn more about the event, please go here. The Purchaser Business Group on Health and the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions are co-hosting the 2024 Health Policy Summit on March 13, 2024. With our nation on the brink of a healthcare cost breaking point, policymaker and employer/purchaser collaboration is essential to move the market toward a more-affordable, high-quality, equitable system. During this event, key…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi, India's most prominent opposition leader, will speak at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Newsmaker on Thursday, June 1 at 2 p.m. His remarks will focus on the future of Indian democracy, freedom of speech, and sustainable and inclusive economic growth. In March, India's lower house of parliament disqualified Gandhi as a lawmaker following his conviction and sentencing for defamation based on a 2019 speech in which he allegedly defamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a thief. He has contended the ruling is a politically motivated measure to stifle opposition and has…
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Tales of the Fight for Equal Rights for Women Journalists
NPC History & Heritage Team
In the late 1960s, women journalists finally were beginning to be hired as hard news reporters. But their treatment in salary and responsibility would probably shock today’s reporters. Ground had to be broken. Two of those groundbreakers – Eleanor Clift and Ann Crittenden – will join us at 1 p.m. on June 5 to talk about their legal actions in 1970 against Time, Inc. and Newsweek that allowed women to become writers at those magazines. In 1970, Clift was in the Atlanta bureau of Newsweek Magazine, working as a “Girl Friday” assistant. She said the “women in New York argued on my behalf that I…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Transgender Advocates
Transgender advocates from communities across the nation will discuss the impact of anti-trans laws and rhetoric at a Headliners Newsmaker on Thursday, June 8 at 2 p.m. This Headliners event is open to credentialed media and club members. To submit a question for the speaker, please email [email protected] and put PRIDE in the subject line. The deadline for submitting questions in advance is 9 a.m. on the day of the event.
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson
Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, will announce the first plank of his presidential campaign's policy agenda at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Newsmaker on Monday, July 17 at 3 p.m. His remarks will focus on his proposals for a complete reform of federal law enforcement. Hutchinson, a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump, launched his presidential campaign in April in his hometown of Bentonville, Ark. He has characterized himself as a "consistent conservative." Hutchinson, a lawyer, began his career in public…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Sean Carberry “Passport Stamps: Searching the World for a War to Call Home"
Former NPR reporter and veteran foreign correspondent Sean Carberry will offer his unique perspective on life in several war zones when he discusses his new book, “Passport Stamps: Searching the World for a War to Call Home," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Thursday, Aug. 17, at 6:30 p.m. From 2007 through 2014, Carberry traveled the world reporting from war zones and fragile states for public radio. He spent time in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Congo, Colombia, Kosovo, and Sudan and other rough neighborhoods before settling down in Afghanistan in 2012. There, he served as NPR…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: General Daniel Hokanson
Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will speak and take questions at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Newsmaker on Thursday, July 27 at 10 a.m. As chief of the National Guard Bureau, Hokanson, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, oversees the training and deployment of more than 453,000 Army and Air National Guard personnel. He commanded the 41st Infantry Brigade Combat Team in Iraq and served as the chief of staff for Combined Joint Task Force Phoenix in Afghanistan. The National Guard made headlines…
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Why Are They Not Home?
Why Are They Not Home?; Challenges Faced By US Government In Resolving Journalist Hostage Cases marking the 11th anniversary of the abduction of journalist Austin Tice
Held in Syria 11 years, Austin Tice is the longest-tenured U.S. hostage. Almost twice as long as Terry Anderson of the Associated Press was held. At this 11th anniversary, we consider why journalists are so often held the longest or suffer fates like those of Jamal Khashoggi and Shireen Abu Akleh? In light of new hostage cases like that of Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal, we are compelled to look at the approach and results of the USG in these cases. In this panel we will try to discover what are the special challenges government encounters when the hostage is a journalist and if…
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24th Annual Members' Photography Exhibit Opening Reception
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Join NPC members and guests for the official opening of the 24th annual members' photography exhibit, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 6:30 to 8:00 pm in the Fourth Estate Room. The exhibit is the Club's annual celebration of visual storytelling, with print photos and electronic images on display in the 13th floor lobby for all of September. Here's your chance to meet many of the photographers, and hear about their work. Questions: contact Photography Team chair Alan Kotok at [email protected]
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