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NPC Headliners Book Event: Andy Parker - "For Alison"
On August 26, 2015 reporter Alison Parker and photojournalist Adam Ward of CBS affiliate WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia were shot and killed while conducting a live television interview for WDBJ’s morning news program, Mornin’. Later that same day Andy Parker, shattered and shaken by the sudden loss of his young daughter Alison, went on Fox News to deliver a solemn promise: to do “whatever it takes to end gun violence in America.” From that day forward, Mr. Parker has worked tirelessly alongside activists like Astronaut Mark Kelly and Michael Bloomberg as an outspoken advocate for national gun…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Dorothy Butler Gilliam - "Trailblazer"
Livestream will begin 1/24 at 6:30pm ET. New Date Legendary civil rights journalist and activist Dorothy Butler Gilliam will share her aptly titled new memoir, "Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Thursday, January 24 at 6:30 p.m. in the Club’s Zenger Room. Gilliam’s more than 60-year-career in journalism began in the segregated South where she made a name for herself reporting on the integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas for the Tri-State Defender. In 1961 she became the first…
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Memory of Sen. Joseph Tydings
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NPC Headliners Book Event: "After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings"
Award-winning journalist Thomas Kapsidelis and Virginia Tech massacre survivor Kristina Anderson will explore the experiences of survivors in the decade following the deadliest mass shooting on a college campus at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Thursday, April 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the Club’s conference rooms. The event marks the debut of After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings, a book by Kapsidelis that chronicles the aftermath of the April 16, 2007 rampage by a lone gunman that killed 32 Virginia Tech students and professors. Then the nation’s…
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Government Inspector General Panel
Government Inspector General Panel
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Book Rap: Rick Beyer & Elizabeth Sayles "The Ghost Army of World War II"
Historian Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles will discuss and sign copies of their latest book “The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery.” In the summer of 1944, a handpicked group of young GIs—including such future luminaries as Bill Blass, Ellsworth Kelly, Arthur Singer, Victor Dowd, Art Kane, and Jack Masey—landed in France to conduct a secret mission. Armed with truckloads of inflatable tanks, a massive collection of sound-effects records, and more than a few tricks up their sleeves, their job…
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NPC General Membership Meeting
NPC members: click here to view the meeting via live webcast (requires login).
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NPC Newsmaker with Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe
Government Transparency vs. National Security: Press Rights, Limits & Ideals in a Post-9/11 World
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