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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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Senior Communicators Roundtable Dinner
National Press Club members are invited to join us for another lively discussion with fellow senior communications leaders on current topics that we all face in our function and profession. By sharing our concerns, ideas, approaches and strategies, we help each other be more effective in our roles for our organizations. Three-course dinner with wine served for $58 per person Cash bar at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. This event is open to NPC members first. While guests may be invited, please let Paul Minehart ([email protected]) know in advance. Guests will be on a wait…
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NPC Communicators Legends Dinner with Bill Novelli
Bill Novelli, one of the most innovative and respected communications and advocacy leaders of our time, will be the featured guest at the National Press Club’s Communicator Legends Dinner on Thursday, February 20, 2020. Mr. Novelli’s professional journey has taken him from his first marketing job in the “mad men” days of the corporate/ad agency world to the public sector, leading advertising for the Peace Corps. While recruiting people to serve the public good, he recognized a market gap in communications services, and co-founded a PR firm, Porter Novelli. The firm was a pioneer in “social…
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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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Communicator & Journalist Roundtable Dinner
National Press Club members are invited to another lively discussion with fellow communications leaders and journalists on current topics that we all face in our function and profession. By sharing our concerns, ideas, approaches and strategies, we help each other be more effective in our roles. And yes, this is event is IN-PERSON (welcome back!) A three-course dinner with wine will be served, at a special price of $62 per person for NPC members. Note: Members must be logged into their NPC membership account in order to access tickets for this event. Cash bar at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner…
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NPC Communicators Legends Dinner with Doug Poretz
Doug Poretz, an accomplished communications executive and entrepreneur who co-founded Qorvis Communications, will be the featured guest at a National Press Club Communicators Legends Dinner on Thursday, June 9. Poretz launched a public affairs office for Alexandria City Public Schools in Virginia during the racial integration of the school system, depicted in Remember the Titans. His career now spans more than 50 years in public relations, launching his own firms and working in-house at some of the largest publicly traded companies. Among his entrepreneurial endeavors was a one-person…
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Communicator & Journalist Roundtable Dinner
National Press Club members are invited to another lively discussion with fellow communications leaders and journalists on current topics that we all face in our function and profession. By sharing our concerns, ideas, approaches and strategies, we help each other be more effective in our roles. A three-course dinner with wine will be served, at a special price of $62 per person for NPC members. Note: Members must be logged into their NPC membership account in order to access tickets for this event. Cash bar at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Business attire. This event is open to NPC…
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Legends of Broadcast: Ann Compton
NPC members must be logged into their press.org account in order to access tickets for this event.
ABC News veteran Ann Compton will be the National Press Club Broadcast & Podcast Team's newest guest at is series of "Legends of Broadcast"These limited-access informal events allow NPC members and their guests to hear the honoree's remarks and participate in an intimate Q&A. Compton's distinguished career includes 41 years on the air at ABC, much of that time at the White House, spanning 10 presidential campaigns and seven presidents. She has earned a fellowship at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and did a stint at the Miller Center for Presidential Studies in Virginia. She…
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Legends of Broadcast: Irv Chapman
These limited-access informal events allow NPC members and their guests to hear the honoree's remarks and participate in an intimate Q&A. Irv Chapman has been a Washington and foreign correspondent for major broadcast news organizations. He moved from New York to Washington to open a bureau for a startup, Radio Press International, and to cover President John F. Kennedy as White House correspondent. Joining ABC News, his first major special event was Kennedy's funeral. Chapman was ABC’s Bureau Chief in Moscow and Tokyo. He covered Richard Nixon's first-ever presidential summit in the…
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