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Taking Twitter to the Next Level
Now that you have the hang of tweeting, learn the easy way to adopt strategies that can boost your followers and engagement. Topics to be covered include: the optimum ways to tweet when news breaks, reaching the communities you're covering, and how to trend on Twitter. This session will be taught by Mark Luckie (@marksluckie), Creative Content Manager for Journalism & News at Twitter. Mark Luckie is a multi-platform journalist and editor, founder of the digital journalism blog 10,000 Words, and author of The Digital Journalist's Handbook, a guide to the tools necessary to thrive…
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Government Transparency vs. National Security: Press Rights, Limits & Ideals in a Post-9/11 World
How does a democracy achieve its public safety mission while honoring civil liberties -- particularly those liberties designed to keep a government true to its democratic character? The National Press Club Journalism Institute has assembled a panel of award-winning national security and press freedom experts to address this very question. We invite you to take part in this interactive session on Wed., January 21 from 5:30-7:00 p.m.:"Government Transparency vs. National Security: Press Rights, Limits & Ideals in a Post-9/11 World"Registration is required and is $5 for NPC members; $10 non-…
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An Evening with Judith Dwan Hallet
From the Vatican to Venezuela, from Berbers to buffalos, from gauchos to gold, the documentaries of Judith Dwan Hallet spread all over the map. A documentary filmmaker for over 40 years, she will discuss her career and her adventures making films around the world. She will show clips from eight films, starting with The Painted Truck, made in Afghanistan in 1971 before the ravages of war devastated the country. Next, segments from three documentaries she made for National Geographic Television: The Life and Legend of Jane Goodall: My Life with the Chimpanzees; The Gauchos of Argentina; and…
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Suze Orman and Tavis Smiley
Suze Orman and Tavis Smiley “Taking power back from banks for consumers, and the fight against poverty” Date: Thursday, Jan. 12 Time: 10 a.m. Location: Conference Rooms, National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC Suze Orman, widely perceived as America’s leading authority on personal finance, will speak about her “People First” movement on behalf of consumers to fight banks and their fees. Those fees hit the poorest Americans hardest, and Tavis Smiley, the PBS broadcaster, will highlight his efforts to restore the nation’s prosperity as more and more Americans slip into…
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Magic Show
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Marvin Kalb: "Enemy of the People"
After more than six decades of experience holding the powerful accountable, journalist Marvin Kalb has endured his fair share of hostility. But when President Donald Trump made the assertion just weeks after his inauguration that the press was the “enemy of the American people,” Kalb, who held a prominent position on President Nixon’s Enemies List, knew the media-bashing so characteristic of Trump’s presidential campaign had just reached a dark and dangerous turning point – a charge that if left unchallenged, was capable of completely eroding the public’s trust in the press and toppling a…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Dr. Paul Offit & "Bad Advice"
Dr. Paul Offit, an award-winning expert on vaccines, immunology and virology and co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine credited with saving hundreds of lives every day, will appear at a National Press Club Headliners Book Rap on Monday, October 29, to discuss his latest book: “Bad Advice: Or Why Celebrities, Politicians and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information.” In “Bad Advice,” Dr. Offit uses harrowing and often humorous stories from his own experiences as one of the countries’ top pediatricians and leading vaccine advocates to illustrate why scientists must hone their…
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NPC Headliners Film Discussion: "Boy Erased"
In celebration of LGBT History Month, The Mattachine Society of Washington DC will discuss the upcoming Nicole Kidman/Russell Crowe feature “Boy Erased,” and lead a conversation with the film’s real-life subjects, Martha Conley and her son Garrard at a special National Press Club Headliners Event at 6:30 p.m., Friday, October 12. “Boy Erased” (set to be released in theaters by Focus Features on November 2) is based on Garrard Conley’s memoir (Riverhead Books, 2016), and tells his story (played by Lucas Hedges), as the son of a Baptist pastor from small town Arkansas, forced into a conversion…
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NPC Historical Talk: Bureau of Spies
NPC Photo Team Meeting
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NPC Headliners Book Event - Sean Parnell: "Man of War"
Author Sean Parnell will discuss his debut novel Man of War with CNN anchor Jake Tapper and National Press Club President Andrea Edney at a NPC Headliners Book Rap on Thursday, September 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Club's conference rooms. As a U.S. Army Ranger, Parnell commanded an elite infantry platoon known as the Outlaws, tasked with rooting out insurgents from a valley along Afghanistan's eastern frontier. His nonfiction account, entitled Outlaw Platoon, became a best-seller and “required reading” for young cadets across the country. Now Parnell brings his real-world experience and…
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