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Broadcast Team Meeting with Sam Ford, WJLA
WJLA General Assignment Reporter Sam Ford will join us virtually for a special Broadcast-Podcast Team meeting from 12-1PM on Thursday, May 5. Sam has been with WJLA-TV for 30 years. He has been a broadcaster for 45 years, starting with radio stations in Kansas and Minnesota before moving on to television. Previously, Sam spent nine years as a correspondent for CBS News. During his tenure at the network, he was stationed at CBS bureaus in New York, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. Prior to CBS, he reported for WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sam is a founding member of the National Association…
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NPC Communicators Team Lunch & Learn - How to Publish a Book
National Press Club Communicator members Ed Barks and Edward Segal are returning to the "Lunch and Learn" series on Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 12 noon to share their experience in book publishing since they participated in a similar session hosted by the Communicators Team nearly two years ago. The accomplished writers took separate paths to publish their books. Barks published his independently while Segal went the traditional route and worked with a publishing house. They say determining the best publishing method depends on professional or business intentions and timelines. Barks and…
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General Membership Meeting
The National Press Club will hold a general membership meeting for all Club members at noon Friday, May 20, in the Fourth Estate. Members will receive membership updates and Club leadership will speak on other matters. Please review the minutes from our January 14 meeting and send your approval or edits to Secretary Mike Balsamo at [email protected]. A lunch buffet will be provided. If you can't attend the meeting in person, a live webcast will be available below with login. You must be a NPC member to attend and registration is required.
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NPC Communicators Legends Dinner with Doug Poretz
Doug Poretz, an accomplished communications executive and entrepreneur who co-founded Qorvis Communications, will be the featured guest at a National Press Club Communicators Legends Dinner on Thursday, June 9. Poretz launched a public affairs office for Alexandria City Public Schools in Virginia during the racial integration of the school system, depicted in Remember the Titans. His career now spans more than 50 years in public relations, launching his own firms and working in-house at some of the largest publicly traded companies. Among his entrepreneurial endeavors was a one-person…
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Trust Us?
News sources proliferate just as trust thins out for traditional media. What we are doing about it. Join us on June 30 for this town hall.
We’re told that lies travel faster than the truth. If that is so, what are journalists doing to prove to audiences that what they read, see and hear is based on verifiable facts? In a world of conflicting media standards, practices and ethics, news organizations must cope with more challenges to more facts by more people than ever. Journalists Sam Fulwood (Dean, School of Communication, American University) Elahe Izadi (media reporter, The Washington Post) and Terence Samuel (VP News, NPR) join PBS Public Editor Ricardo Sandoval-Palos in exploring, before a live audience, how politics and mis…
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NPC Membership Committee
National Press Club Membership Committee Members have some of the most important tasks of any Club members, helping further the goals of the Club by carefully reviewing applications for membership and ensuring that those selected are working to advance the cause of ethics and professionalism in journalism and communications. They also help tell the National Press Club by inviting and encouraging journalist and communicator colleagues to also become members. This meeting will be online/virtual. To participate - or if you would like to join the Membership Team - please contact Team Leader Cary…
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Former and current Broadcast pros reflect on the bright side of moving to the ‘dark side’ (Broadcast Team)
The reference to the dark side is tongue-in-cheek, by the way! This will be a hybrid gathering (both Zoom and in the Cosgrove Room of The Reliable Source). In no particular order, the planned participants (all Club members we call friends) are: Lori Russo, President Stanton Communications Debra Silimeo, President, The Silimeo Group Bill McCloskey, former Director of Media Relations, BellSouth (AT&T) Our Co-Vice Chair Adam Konowe will lead this part of the meeting, Adam is Senior VP, Edelman. Join us for this monthly Broadcast Team meeting, Thursday, Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m. ET via zoom or…
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Everything you need to know about podcasts featuring Melissa Kiesche, SVP, Edison Research (Broadcast Team)
“Everything you need to know about podcasts” with guest speaker Melissa Kiesche, SVP, Edison Research. Edison Research does exhaustive research on this growing media form. Here’s what it says on their website calling itself “The Leading Podcast Research Company In The World”: Edison Research data powers many of the most listened-to podcasts in the world, and our industry studies on consumer behavior, demographics, and monetization of podcasting are used by scores of successful companies in the space Join us for our monthly Broadcast Team meeting, Thursday, October 6 at 12 p.m. ET via zoom or…
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NPC Communicators Virtual Lunch & Learn: ROI for Strategic Communicators
The National Press Club Communicators Team will host a virtual "Lunch & Learn" program focused on how strategic communications professionals can measure and deliver quality return on investment (ROI) from their campaigns. The 1-hour online discussion will feature Beth Egan, Associate professor of Advertising at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Beth Egan is perfectly situated to speak about return on investment—what it means in the strategic communications context, how we can explain it to our clients and the C-suite in terms they understand, and…
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Mining for News Gold in U.S. Foreign Aid
Learn about a treasure trove of data and insights that most journalists routinely miss in an interactive online workshop for members of the National Press Club on Thursday, Sept. 15, from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. US Eastern Time. Edward DeMarco, a former Bloomberg international politics editor in Washington and National Press Club member who went on to work in Africa as a strategist for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for a decade, steers you through a raft of overlooked sources and other information. He’ll provide pointers on how to: Get clues ahead of the curve about U.S…
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