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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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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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Get PR Smart: How Pinterest Can Help Brand Your Cause
How Pinterest Can Help Brand Your Cause – Be the first to apply emerging social media platforms to your grassroots or public awareness campaigns Emerging social media platforms like Pinterest can help you reach your target demographic and connect with the lifestyle associated with your brand or organization. This session provides a primer on the ways you can use these new tools to share your organization’s core values, news, and story The "Get PR Smart" series is sponsored by the National Press Club Journalism Institute and Adfero Group.
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Pinterest Primer
Pinterest Primer – 9:30 a.m. on April 5 in the Bloomberg Classroom Pinterest calls itself an 'online virtual pinboard.' How could such a basic concept become so popular? Join technology guru Ivan Meyers and multimedia artist Devin Schuyler for a discussion of how Pinterest is carving out its spot on the internet, and a demonstration on how to set up and organize your own Pinterest account. The session is free for NPC members and $10 for non-members. Reservations required [email protected]
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How to Create a Social Media Workflow
Are you using an effective social media strategy to communicate your message? In this session, you will learn how to create an effective social media strategy, a practical workflow, how to design individual campaigns, how to plan a social editorial calendar, how to create meaningful social content, how to create meaningful blog content, how to measure your ROI and how to set appropriate benchmarks. Everyone will receive templates to take back and use as well as our 40-page workbook with step-by-step instructions covering everything discussed. This is a very intensive, hands-on class intended…
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