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NPC Headliners Luncheon: WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert
Following an exciting year for women’s basketball that culminated in the Washington Mystics netting their first-ever WNBA title, newly-appointed WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert will discuss her vision and goals for the league at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on Tuesday, March 3. Engelbert was appointed the first Commissioner of the WNBA last May (previous league leaders held the title of president), and officially joined the league on July 17. Engelbert came to the WNBA after more than 30 years at Deloitte, serving most recently as the company’s first female CEO (and the first…
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NPC Headliners Book Event: Reporter Jerry Mitchell - "Race Against Time"
Reporter Jerry Mitchell, who spent years investigating the most infamous murders of the civil rights movement, will speak at a National Press Club Headliners event on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020 about his upcoming book, Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era. Race Against Time chronicles Mitchell’s quest to unearth the truth behind some of the most gruesome and harrowing unsolved murders of the civil rights era. Mitchell’s reporting is credited with helping to bring killers to justice for the assassination of Medgar Evers, the firebombing of…
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"The Boys on the Bus" - 12 Elections Later
Following the 1972 McGovern campaign, writer Timothy Crouse wrote "The Boys on the Bus," the seminal book on campaign reporting. As we head into a new campaign, we will be talking to three reporters who were on that bus — and they weren’t all boys. Connie Chung (CBS News), who had just launched her television news career that year, Carl Leubsdorf (Dallas Morning News) and Tom Oliphant (Boston Globe) will share their stories with moderator Edwin Grosvenor, publisher of American Heritage Magazine. They will talk about how campaigns were covered that year, why the book was so important to…
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"Discovering Tunisian Cuisine" Dinner at The Fourth Estate Restaurant
The Fourth Estate Restaurant will feature a menu of Tunisian cuisine on Wednesday, Jan. 29. The dinner will come from the cookbook, "Discovering Tunisian Cuisine" by Judy Hallet, a documentary filmmaker-turned-author. She first discovered Tunisian food as a Peace Corps volunteer and returned to the country 50 years later with her husband Stanley, an architecture professor who had been asked to help transform the architectural design studios at a private university in Tunis. Over the next three years, the Hallets made several months-long trips to Tunisia. The cookbook was co-authored by…
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Stags' Leap Wine Dinner at The Fourth Estate Restaurant
Enjoy a five-course dinner in the Fourth Estate restaurant on Oct. 1 as Master Sommelier Gillian Ballance guides you through a tasting of the top-rated wines of Stags' Leap Winery. Ballance earned a Master Sommelier diploma from the Court of Master Sommeliers in 2012, becoming one of 30 women in the world to claim that honor. She has worked in some of the nation's top restaurants, including The Rainbow Room and Windows of the World in New York City where she worked under Andrea Immer Robinson. She has worked as the wine director for the Plumpjack Group, and as wine consultant and sommelier…
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"Buttermilk Graffiti" Dinner at The Fourth Estate Restaurant
James Beard Award-winning Chef Edward Lee will regale diners with his tales of America's melting pot cuisines at a five-course book and bourbon dinner at the Fourth Estate restaurant on Dec. 17. Lee won recognition from James Beard Foundation for his book, Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef’s Journey to Discover America’s New Melting Pot Cuisine. The book tells of his two-year, cross country journey to discover the culinary culture clashes that lead to exciting new American dishes. Interspersed with the narrative are 40 recipes that recreate the new dishes for the home cook. The Dec. 17 dinner…
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Invisible ways reporters signal they can be trusted with high-stakes stories (or can't)
What makes a whistleblower or someone who’s been a victim of a crime or major misdeed willing to come forward to a particular journalist or outlet? On June 18, come hear from the subject of the Washington Post story "'The man who attacked me works in your kitchen’: Victim of serial groper took justice into her own hands," as well as her advocate and the Washington Post journalists they trusted. Lauren Clark, who was attacked after a jog by a man who was then hired by a restaurant a block away from her apartment, and her advocate Kristin Eliason will talk about what factors they considered…
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NPC Communicators Lunch and Learn: How Wikipedia Can Help or Hurt You
Wikipedia, the free multi-lingual online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of some 200,000 editors and contributors, is accessed by 1.4 billion unique devices every single day and is one of the 15 most popular websites (as ranked by Alexa so far this year). While Wikipedia has received praise for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, the extent of coverage, unique structure, culture, and reduced amount of commercial influence, it has been criticized for its perceived unreliability and for exhibiting systemic bias. This Lunch and Learn program, which is hosted by…
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Blues Alley Jazz Night with Marcus Johnson
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NPC Communicators Lunch and Learn: Meet the Education Media (Online Event)
The evolution of the media and education landscapes over the last year have created both challenges and opportunities for journalists covering education in the United States, at the national and the regional/local levels. On Thursday, July 22 at 12 noon, the National Press Club Communicators Team brings together a panel of education media experts to discuss the coverage of trending topics such as safely returning students to classrooms after the pandemic, school board politics and critical race theory. They’ll also look at the state of the education beat, including what’s changed in the…
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