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NPC Newsmaker: Secretary of the Air Force, Frank Kendall
Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event on Tuesday, April 19 at 2 p.m. Kendall will address the Air Force’s FY23 budget request and his vision for the department’s transformation to face future threats around the globe. As leader of both the Air Force and the Space Force, established in 2019, Kendall will also provide an update on the prospects for the newest branch of America’s Armed Forces. The U.S. Air Force this year marks its 75th anniversary. Kendall, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, previously…
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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 Newsmaker: Major League Baseball Players Association’s Tony Clark, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler to discuss MLBPA’s growing role in the labor movement
Tony Clark, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), will speak at a National Press Club-sponsored Headliner event on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at 10 a.m., in the club’s Holeman Lounge. Clark will be joined by AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler. The two labor leaders will discuss recent initiatives and alliances that have thrust the MLBPA to the forefront of sports news this year. This week, the MLBPA, which represents the 1,200 players on the rosters of all 30 Major League Baseball teams, distributed union authorization cards that would allow the nation’s 5,000 minor…
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NPC Newsmaker: Ambassador Masood Khan of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Ambassador Masood Khan of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan will speak at a National Press Club Newsmaker event on Friday, Sept. 9 at 10 a.m. in the Holeman Lounge. He will discuss the recent flooding in Pakistan. The world has seen shocking video of the recent record flooding in Pakistan but the impact on the country is far greater than even these videos suggest. The number of people who are displaced, missing or dead are high and climbing rapidly. Ambassador Khan will provide a briefing on what is now known of the situation and what is projected in the short and longer term. He will discuss…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: New York City Mayor Eric Adams
New York City Mayor Eric Adams will address gun control and manufacturers at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13. A former captain in the New York Police Department, Adams has been an advocate for tougher gun laws. In June testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, he called for a ban on assault weapons, among other reforms. “It is high noon in America,” Adams said in written testimony. "Time for every one of us to decide where we stand on the issue of gun violence. Time to decide if it is more important to protect the profits of gun…
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NPC Newsmaker: Vanessa Nakate, Climate Activist and UN Goodwill Ambassador
Climate activist and UN Goodwill Ambassador Vanessa Nakate will address the need for the world's biggest polluters to compensate victims of climate change at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference on Friday, Oct. 7 at 10 a.m. UN climate negotiators have sought unsuccessfully to win "loss and damage" compensation for countries most affected by flooding and other disasters wrought by climate change from countries that are the biggest greenhouse gas contributors. Nakate, inspired by Greta Thunberg, is Uganda's first youth climate striker. She went on to found the Rise Up Movement, an…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas
U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, will release the results of a new federal report on the underrepresentation of Latinos in the media industry, including the film, television, news and publishing sectors, at a Headliners Newsmaker event on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 10 a.m. Last year, the 2021 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that Hispanics make up 18% of the population but held just 12% of the jobs in the media industry. Castro, born in San Antonio, is a second-generation Mexican American. After serving five terms as a state legislator in Texas, Castro was elected in 2012 to…
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NPC Newsmaker: Ambassador Masood Khan of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Note: This event has been postponed. Please check back for new date/time. Earlier this year Pakistan suffered a devastating flood that caused significant death and injury among its people. The floodwaters covered more than 1/3 of the country. Contributing factors included excessive rains from the rising temperature of the Indian Ocean and rapid, early melting of the mountain snowcaps. These factors are one of the most clear indications of the role of climate change in natural disasters. Ambassador Khan briefed at the Press Club earlier in the year at the outbreak of the crisis. Now he can…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas will speak about the mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in an ever-changing national security environment at a National Press Club in-person Headliner event on Thursday, Sept. 9. President George W. Bush established the Office of Homeland Security in October 2001, a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. Congress as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 established the department on Nov. 25, 2002 to consolidate 22 executive branch domestic security agencies into a single Cabinet office.…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, will speak at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Newsmaker on Monday, Jan. 30 at 10 a.m. in the Ballroom. Comer is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee now that Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives. Comer has said the Oversight Committee under Republican control will focus on rooting out waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government and holding the Biden Administration accountable. He also promised to investigate President Biden's son, Hunter for alleged "influence…
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