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Gilbert M. Grosvenor Reflects on 50 Years at National Geographic
Gilbert Grosvenor, the former Chairman of the National Geographic Society and Editor of its magazine, will speak in a question and answer session on Friday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. in the Ballroom. Grosvenor will reflect on his career and the evolution of journalism over the last six decades. The event is sponsored by the History and Heritage Committee of the National Press Club. Grosvenor will be interviewed by his brother, Edwin S. Grosvenor, Editor of American Heritage Magazine. The Grosvenor family’s involvement in the National Press Club goes back over 100 years. Gil’s grandfather, Gilbert H.…
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Committee for the Republic Speaker Sy Hersh
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The Kalb Report Celebration and Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony
The National Press Club and the NPC Journalism Institute request the pleasure of your company at 3:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, April 22, 2023, as we celebrate The Kalb Report public broadcasting series. During the event, the series will receive the New York Festivals International Broadcasting Awards 2023 Lifetime Achievement Honor. Join Moderator Marvin Kalb and Executive Producer Michael Freedman as the Club and Institute salute The Kalb Report team for nearly three decades of excellence in bringing issues and guests at the forefront of democracy and the press to Club members, as well as…
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NPC Headliners Luncheon: Ashley Judd
Actress and social justice advocate Ashley Judd will speak May 9 at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon on the need for responsible and respectful reporting on suicides. Judd's mother, Grammy-winning country music artist Naomi Judd was suffering from mental illness when she died by suicide on April 30, 2022. "The trauma of discovering and then holding her laboring body haunts my nights," Ashley Judd wrote in The New York Times. "As my family and I continue to mourn our loss, the rampant and cruel misinformation that has spread about her death, and about our relationships with her,…
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National Health Council Science of Patient Engagement Symposium
The National Health Council’s (NHC’s) Science of Patient Engagement Symposium is a thought leadership an annual event where health care experts, doctors, and researchers research leaders convene to discuss and highlight innovative diagnosis and treatment strategies and outcomes and the share their experiences, accomplishments, best practices, and resulting translational impacts on the science of patient engagement. This year’s Symposium, themed Patient Empowerment in the Digital Health Era, features a “blue ribbon” lineup of leading health care experts who will will explore some of the most…
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UFO/UAP Disclosure Press Conference
Dr. Steven Greer is the world’s leading authority on the subject of UFO’s/UAPs, advanced energy and propulsion systems and has gathered an extensive intelligence archive of compelling evidence on the subject of extraterrestrial intelligence and covert government projects that are being run illegally. Over the course of the last 30 years, he has provided briefings for sitting US presidents, senior government officials across the globe and has conducted countless media interviews and delivered hundreds of lectures. He has identified over 700 high-level government and corporate whistleblowers…
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NPC Headliners Luncheon: Chris Evans and Mark Kassen, Co-Founders of A Starting Point
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Chris Evans and Mark Kassen, co-founders of A Starting Point (ASP), will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on Monday, January 29th. As the pivotal 2024 elections approach, the growing threat of misinformation is compounded by an increase in social media consumption. Founded to demystify politics, ASP is taking these challenges head-on, evolving over three years from a civic engagement resource to a trusted information hub for young Americans. Evans and Kassen will address ASP’s growing role in American civics education and new initiatives to engage and prepare first-time…
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NPC Headliners: Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm
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Join U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm for a Headliners Coffee and Conversation on Wednesday, Feb. 21 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the National Press Club. Secretary Granholm will discuss the Biden administration's industrial strategy for the clean energy transition. Under President Biden's leadership, the Department of Energy is deploying an unprecedented set of tools aimed at enabling American businesses, workers and consumers to participate in the clean energy economy. Secretary Granholm will outline how this strategy is driving a boom in American manufacturing, creating green…
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NPC Headliners: Chef José Andrés
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Join Chef José Andrés, founder of World Central Kitchen, for a Headliners fireside chat on Friday, March 1 at 6:30 p.m. at the National Press Club. He will discuss World Central Kitchen's efforts to distribute food in conflict and disaster zones. In Gaza, World Central Kitchen is providing more than 60% of all NGO food aid in the conflict zone. The organization so far has served more than 30 million meals, dispatched and delivered more than 1,200 trucks, participated in an airdrop of humanitarian supplies to the hard to reach northern area of Gaza, and has a boat in Cyprus prepared to head to…
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NPC Headliners Luncheon: Maryland Governor Wes Moore
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore will speak June 22 at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon. Moore, Maryland's first Black governor, recently closed out his first legislative session, signing into law a $15 an hour minimum wage, expanded tax breaks for military retirees, and the SERVE Act, a first-in-the-nation program offering high school students a state-paid service year option. He also signed new gun control bills that restrict who can carry guns in public and where they can bring them. The National Rifle Association immediately challenged the measures in federal court. The event begins with…
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