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Google Fusion Tables For Content Producers
Join us for this intensive, hands-on introduction to Google Fusion Tables, one of the hottest new technologies available. Fusion Tables is a free tool that most newsrooms and others working with data use to create maps and real-time data visualizations.This session is being taught by NYC-based John Keefe, an award-winning journalist and the Senior Editor for Data News & Journalism Technology at WNYC, New York Public Radio. Keefe infuses WNYC's journalism with data reporting and interactive news applications, including census analysis, map mashups, news charts and SMS-based crowdsourcing…
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Get Up to Speed on Ethics.gov
Get up to speed on ethics.gov Macon Phillips, White House new media director, will discuss and answer questions about the administration's new web portal for ethics data on Wednesday, April 11 in a program developed by the National Press Club's Journalism Institute and the Regional Reporters Association. Phillips will discuss ethics.gov, which is a jumping-off point for information on White House visitor logs, foreign lobbyist registrations, campaign finance reports and more. The program starts at 10:30 a.m. and will be held in the Bloomberg Room, next to the press club library. Space is…
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Jozsef Szajer
National Press Club "AFTERNOON NEWSMAKER" News ConferenceThursday, April 5, 2012, 4 p.m.National Press Club (Zenger Room) Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and Author of the new Hungarian Constitution,JOZSEF SZAJER, will discuss "WHAT IS IN AND WHAT IS NOT IN THE MUCH-DISPUTED NEWEST CONSTITUTION IN EUROPE: THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF HUNGARY" Contacts: National Press Club: PETER HICKMAN, 301/530-1210 (H&O/T&F), 301/367-7711 (C), 202/662-7540 (NPC, [email protected]. Szajer: Andras Szorenyi (Embassy of Hungary), 202/415-3653 (t), [email protected]
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Election 2012 Boot Camp: Refresher Class in Excel
Refresher Class in Excel The National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Regional Reporters Association will hold the next in a yearlong series of programs for reporters covering the 2012 campaign with refresher course in Microsoft Excel. The program will be held in the Bloomberg Classroom at the National Press Club on March 14 at 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. The program, which will be led by RRA board member Herb Jackson of The Record (Bergen County, NJ), is designed as a follow-up to last month’s Federal Election Commission data diving class, but anyone who missed that class could still…
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Status of Women and Human Rights in Afghanistan
Status of Women and Human Rights in Afghanistan Sima Samar, MD, Chair of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and a former member of the Afghan Cabinet. will speak at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, in the Bloomberg Room of the National Press Building, 529 14th St., N.W., Washington, DC. Sima Samar, an outspoken advocate for women’s rights, will address the issues faced by Afghan women and human rights situation in Afghanistan especially with international forces including U.S. announcing their…
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Status and Impact of New State Voter ID Laws
Status and Impact of New State Voter ID Laws Laura Murphy, director of the Washington legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow and manager of the Civil Justice Reform Initiative in the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation, will speak at a National Press Club Newsmaker at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, in the Zenger Room of the club in the National Press Building, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, DC. They will discuss the actual and potential impact…
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Census Database Training for Journalists
Census Database Training For Journalists - Sponsored by the NPC Journalism Institute’s Professional Development Committee The U.S. Census Bureau will host a special training workshop on Friday, Feb. 24 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. to help reporters navigate its American Fact Finder database. Their web-based data can help journalists dig up information on population, housing, economic, and geographic details to back up any story. Learning to find key data will help beef up investigative and initiative stories as well as spot stories and help illuminate election year coverage on the issues. The…
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Career Spring Cleaning
Former Washington Post editor and Penn State University lecturer Jackie Jones will offer `spring cleaning' for careers in a four-week coaching session that starts April 5. Career counselor Jones will discuss planning and assessing goals, updating plans and getting re-energized in sessions for up to eight people. The group will meet from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursdays, April 5 to 26, in the Bloomberg Classroom. The cost is $80 for members, $200 for non-members. Payment must be received in advance to reserve a slot, and there are no refunds. Because space is limited, participants must reserve at…
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Ronald S. Lauder
Predicting What Israel Will Do in an Unpredictable Middle East World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder to offer insight and analysis as the Arab Spring becomes a memory and as Israel aims to “brand” itself before the international community President of the World Jewish Congress and former U.S. ambassador Ronald S. Lauder will appear at a National Press Club Newsmaker at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 10, where he plans to warn that any effort by a drifting and unstable Egyptian government to abrogate its peace treaty with Israel will have disastrous and immediate consequences for the Middle…
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Robert L. Johnson
Business Leader Robert L. Johnson to Discuss Minority Unemployment Rates; Wealth Gap Announces new online company to increase opportunities for minority job seekers, businesses (Washington, DC) – Business leader Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies, will discuss minority unemployment rates, limited access to capital and an accelerating wealth gap between white and black American during a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference, 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 1, 2012, National Press Building, 529 14th St., NW, Washington, D.C.Johnson will discuss ways corporations…
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