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NPC Virtual Book Event: Ted Jackson, "You Ought To Do A Story About Me"
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Ted Jackson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune will discuss his book “You Ought To Do A Story About Me: Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption," at a virtual Headliners Book event on Monday, Oct. 5 at 1 p.m. ET. The book chronicles the growth of Jackson's friendship with a drug-addicted former NFL star whom he first encountered sleeping under a bridge in New Orleans in 1990. After taking the photograph, Jackson woke the man to get his name. "You ought to do a story on me," the man told Jackson. When Jackson asked why,…
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NPC Virtual Headliners Book Event: Nikita Stewart, "Troop 6000"
New York Times reporter Nikita Stewart will discuss her year with Troop 6000, the first Girl Scout troop founded by and for girls living in a homeless shelter in Queens, N.Y., at a virtual NPC Headliners book event on Thursday, May 21 at 3 p.m. Stewart is the author of “TROOP 6000: The Girl Scout Troop That Began in a Shelter and Inspired the World,” which is available for sale on Tuesday, May 19. She will be interviewed by National Press Club President Michael Freedman in an online event open to the public. Freedman will also take questions from the audience. Send your questions here:…
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NPC Virtual Opening Day with Fred Frommer & Phil Hochberg
Welcome the start of the 2021 baseball season by tuning in to a virtual Headliners book event with author Fred Frommer and former Washington Senators announcer Phil Hochberg on April 1 at 2 p.m. Frommer, former AP reporter and author of “You Gotta Have Heart: Washington Baseball from Walter Johnson to the 2019 World Series Champion Nationals," and Hochberg, now a Washington lawyer who represents sports leagues, will discuss the relationship U.S. presidents have with baseball. Past NPC President Michael Freedman will moderate the event. President William Howard Taft was the first president to…
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NPC Virtual Book Event: John Woodrow Cox, "Children Under Fire"
John Woodrow Cox, whose series for The Washington Post on the impact of gun violence on children in America was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, will discuss his new book “Children Under Fire: An American Crisis,” at a National Press Club Headliners virtual book event at 2 p.m. Monday, April 12. According to a study published in the medical journal Pediatrics, firearm-related fatalities are one of the top three causes of death for children 17 and under in the United States, taking more young American lives annually than childhood cancers and other medical conditions. Thousands of…
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NPC Virtual Book Event: Lisa Napoli, "Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie"
NPR Journalists Susan Stamberg, Nina Totenberg and Linda Wertheimer will join author Lisa Napoli to discuss her new book “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR" at a National Press Club virtual Headliners Book and Author webcast at 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 29. The one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the media and members of the general public free-of-charge. Viewers are invited to submit their questions for Napoli, Stamberg, Totenberg and Wertheimer in advance or during the…
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NPC Virtual Book Event: Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes, "Lucky"
Amie Parnes, senior correspondent for The Hill, and Jonathan Allen a senior political analyst for NBC News, will discuss their book, “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency,” at a National Press Club Headliners virtual book event at 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 10. Their dogged reporting goes behind the scenes to explain how Biden's campaign almost failed then recovered through a string of game-changing breaks. With extraordinary access to key players in both the Democratic and Republican campaigns, Allen and Parnes deliver an inside look at power plays, miscalculations and the struggles…
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NPC Virtual Book Event: Michelle Duster, "Ida B. the Queen"
The great-granddaughter of crusading journalist Ida B. Wells, author Michelle Duster, will discuss her new book Ida B. The Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells, at a National Press Club Virtual Book Event on Tuesday, February 23 at 2:30 p.m. ET. This one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the media and members of the general public free-of-charge. Viewers are invited to submit their questions for Duster in advance or during the live program via email to [email protected]. Please put "Wells" in the subject…
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NPC Virtual Book Event: Don Lemon, “This is the Fire”
Don Lemon, host of CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, will discuss his new book “This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism” at a National Press Club Headliners virtual book event at 2pm on Monday, May 10. This one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the press and general public free-of-charge. Viewers are invited to submit their questions for Lemon in advance or during the live program via email to [email protected], with “Lemon” in the subject line. In “This is the Fire,” Lemon, the country’s only Black prime-time news…
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NPC Virtual Book Event: Mark Bittman, "Animal, Vegetable, Junk"
Mark Bittman, former New York Times columnist, food writer and best-selling author, will discuss his new book “Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, From Sustainable to Suicidal” at a National Press Club Headliners virtual book event at 2pm on Thursday, May 13. This one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the press and general public free-of-charge. Viewers can submit their questions for Bittman in advance or during the live program via email to [email protected], with “Bittman” in the subject line. In “Animal, Vegetable…
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NPC Virtual Book Event: Marvin Kalb, "Assignment Russia"
Marvin Kalb, award-winning journalist and moderator of the public broadcasting series “The Kalb Report,” will share the second volume of his personal memoirs, “Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War,” at a National Press Club Virtual Book Event at 2:00 p.m. on April 13. Kalb’s career in journalism began just as legendary newsman Edward R. Murrow and his band of “Murrow Boys” were inventing broadcast news as we know it today. As the last correspondent personally hired by Murrow at CBS News, Kalb recalls what it was like to be a young foreign…
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