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The Trump Victory and 2016 Election - What the Media Got Right & Wrong
Panel moderator and Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan, Hillary Clinton campaign reporter Abby Phillip of the Washington Post, RNC National Spokeswoman Lindsay Walters, CNN Politics Senior Digital Correspondent Chris Moody and former Bill Clinton White House press secretary and Commission on Presidential Debates co-chair Mike McCurry will look back on a truly unprecedented presidential campaign cycle. The National Press Club’s Broadcast Committee invites you to join them and your fellow Club members for a lively panel discussion regarding synergies and conflicts between the…
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National Press Club Communicators Summit
National Press Club Communicators Summit to Focus on Crisis Communications On Tuesday, November 15, the National Press Club will host its Communicators Summit, focusing on the theme of crisis communications. The Summit will take place at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street, NW -- 13th floor. 8:30-9:00 a.m. – Registration/Networking/Continental Breakfast 9:00-9:05 a.m. – Welcome remarks 9:05-10:20 a.m. – Session I: A conversation with Michael A. Nutter, former mayor of Philadelphia During his time in office, Mayor Michael A. Nutter was charged with leading the city of Philadelphia through…
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NPC Book Event featuring Jay Solomon and The Iran Wars
Jay Solomon, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal will discuss his latest book, The Iran Wars: Spy Games, Bank Battles, and the Secret Deals That Reshaped the Middle East, at the National Press Club on Wednesday, December 14 at 6:30PM in the NPC’s Conference Rooms. Since 9/11, the United States has been engaged in a war with Iran as Momentous as any other in the Middle East – a war that has largely been hidden from public view. In The Iran Wars, Solomon offers a deeply reported primer on this decades-long power struggle and a sharp critique of how the Obama…
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Merriman Smith and UPI’s Glory Days
In the 1960s UPI and AP fought head to head for every second of every story. No one epitomized that competition more than Merriman Smith, who served as UPI’s White House correspondent from the Franklin Roosevelt administration through Richard Nixon. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of John Kennedy’s assassination. He and the AP correspondent fought over the telephone in the press pool car just four car’s back from the presidential limousine. Known to all by his nickname Smitty, Merriman Smith also was at Warm Springs, Ga., filing the first dispatches when Roosevelt died. President…
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NPC Book Rap featuring Gary Vikan of Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum
The National Press Club’s Book & Author Committee plans to present a Book Rap on Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 6:30 p.m. in the Conference Rooms featuring Gary Vikan, who led Baltimore’s Walters Art Museum for nearly two decades, as he reveals the shocking truth behind the world’s great museums with his memoir, Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director. Tickets are $5 for Press Club members; $10 for the public. This event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit National Press Club Journalism Institute. No outside books or memorabilia are permitted. According to Vikan, many of the glittering…
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NPC Children's Book Rap: George Washington & The Magic Hat
Travel back in time to meet George Washington during a magical morning for the whole family at the National Press Club. On Saturday, Aug. 27 at 11 a.m., the NPC's Book and Author Committee will present a family-friendly Book Rap with Deborah Kalb, author of The President and Me: George Washington and The Magic Hat. The Book Rap is $5 for Press Club members, $10 for non-members. All children are free. This event is a fundraiser for the non-profit National Press Club Journalism Institute so no outside books or memorabilia are allowed. The book, targeted to youngsters seven and up, tells the…
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RFK: His Words for Our Times with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Rick Allen
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Jean Case - "Be Fearless"
In her new book, “Be Fearless: 5 Principles for a Life of Breakthroughs and Purpose,” Jean Case, Chairman of the National Geographic Society and CEO of the Case Foundation, draws from her own life’s journey and success stories of ordinary entrepreneurs to explain why - particularly in today’s crowded marketplace of ideas and information - it pays to be fearless. Case will share tips and inspiration at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Wednesday, February 27 at 6:30 p.m. This event will take place in the Club’s conference rooms and will feature a presentation by the author, an…
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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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