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Cocktails & Conversations: Sports
Join us Wednesday, November 1 for our Cocktails and Conversations Sports Edition featuring, Candi “CWall” Waller, CEO of CWall Sports & Entertainment/President of Bowie Television. We have curated a unique gathering that aims to bring together brilliant minds in journalism. The event will provide an exceptional opportunity to meet and interact with esteemed professionals who share a passion in journalism and sports.
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CANCELLED - NPC Communicators Legends Dinner with Maria Cardona
Maria Cardona, a public policy advocate, democratic strategist and seasoned communications practitioner, will be the featured guest for a National Press Club Communicators Legends Dinner on Thursday, October 26. Recognized as among the most influential Latinos in the country, Cardona is a Principal at the Dewey Square Group (DSG) and founder of Latinovations, the Latino strategies practice of DSG. Cardona serves as a CNN and CNN en Español political commentator, as well as the host of the MARIA! Show on El Rey Network. Prior to signing on exclusively with CNN, she was a frequent commentator…
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Photography Team Holiday Party
Celebrate the winter holidays with National Press Club's Photo Team on Wednesday, Dec. 13 in the Cosgrove Lounge. We'll start with a buffet lunch from the Reliable Source, then honor this year's NPC event photographers, followed by a photo show-and-tell on the theme of "travel". As we've done before, participants can interpret the theme anyway they want. Please send one digital travel-theme image in .jpg or .png format to Photo Team co-chair Alan Kotok ([email protected]) by Monday, Dec. 11. At the party, we will show each photo and ask photographers to tell the story behind them.
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Photography Team Meeting with Alex Snyder
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NPC's Photography Team will hear about nature photography at its first meeting in 2024, on Wednesday 17 Jan., 12:00 to 2:00 pm in the Cosgrove Lounge. Alex Snyder, senior photo editor at The Nature Conservancy and director of the group's international photo contest, will tell us about the contest, explain its many and varied categories, and display examples from the winning entries. The session begins with a self-funded lunch from the Reliable Source -- both buffet and menu items are available -- followed by Alex's presentation. We plan to provide live audio of the program for remote…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: “American Mother” featuring Diane Foley
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Join Diane Foley, mother of Jim Foley, a freelance journalist captured and beheaded by ISIS in 2014, for a discussion on "American Mother," written with National Book Award-winner Colum McCann. Foley will share her journey from the time of her son’s captivity to the years after his death. Nearly seven years after her son’s death, Foley spent three days in a Virginia courthouse in the presence of her son’s killer. Her passion to keep her son’s memory alive let to the creation of the James Foley Legacy Foundation—a nonprofit that “advocates for the freedom of all Americans held hostage abroad…
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Standards Save: A Water Conservation Summit
In response to water scarcity crises in multiple regions across the U.S. and globally, the International Code Council (The Code Council) will host a high-level meeting of water experts from across government, academia, and the water utility sector to examine water conservation solutions achievable through newly updated building standards and codes. As the focal event of its World Water Awareness 2024 campaign, The Code Council will bring together leading water experts from DC Water, U.S. EPA, and U.S. DOI, Bureau of Reclamation for, “Standards Save: A Water Conservation Summit,” on Thurs.,…
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Photography Team Meeting: Shooting the pandemic
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National Press Club's Photography Team will hear about photographing the Covid-19 pandemic in D.C. from veteran photojournalist Evy Mages, a Washingtonian magazine staff photographer whose career also includes taking images for The Washington Post, the N.Y. Daily News and Reuters. Join us Thursday, April 18 from 12:00 to 2:00 pm in the Cosgrove Lounge. The session begins with a self-funded lunch from the Reliable Source followed by Mages’s presentation at 1:00 pm. We will provide a live link for remote participants to attend. Reservations are required.
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The Way Forward for Preserving Journalistic Independence at USAGM News Outlets
The American taxpayer-funded U.S. Agency for Global Media employs thousands of journalists in the U.S. and around the world, broadcasting in some 63 different languages to a global audience of over 400 million. While Congress has moved in recent years to protect the journalistic independence of the news outlets that comprise USAGM, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Radio Free Asia, concerns remain about what might happen to the editorial integrity of the agency if President Donald Trump returns to office next year. To examine this pressing question, the National…
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American Legion Post 20 Meeting with Jennifer London
Author Profiling American Historical Figures to Speak at American Legion Post 20
Author Jennifer London is the featured speaker at the next meeting of the National Press Club's affiliated American Legion post. Post 20's luncheon meeting takes place on Wednesday, May 8 at noon in the Cosgrove Room. All Press Club members are invited. Dr. London plans to discuss her new book, Profiles in Character: Sixteen Americans and the Traits That Defined Them. The Americans profiled in her book include Ronald Reagan, Amelia Earhart, Frederick Douglass, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry Truman. Dr. London holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Ohio State University, and…
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Communicator & Journalist Roundtable Dinner
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National Press Club members are invited to another lively discussion with fellow communications leaders and journalists on current topics that we all face in our function and profession. By sharing our concerns, ideas, approaches and strategies, we help each other be more effective in our roles. For long time attendees - Beginning with this dinner, we are revising the approach to providing the dinner meal to significantly reduce the cost for members. Instead of a catered meal with wine, members who attend the dinner may purchase beverages directly from the bar and food from the club’s menu…
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