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Dinner & A Movie: Super 8
Kick off a Super 2012 with Super 8 FilmThe Events Committee will kick off its 2012 Dinner & a Movie series with the J.J. Abrams' and Stephen Spielberg blockbuster Super 8 on Thursday, January 5. Super 8 has thrills, visual dazzle, and emotional depth to spare. In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more…
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Chasing Aphrodite: Investigative Journalists Track Down Looted Antiquities
Please note: Online ticket sales have ended, but tickets will be available at the door for $5. Investigative journalists to analyze looted antiquities, and museum transparency Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino, investigative journalists and authors of "Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum" will join Gary Vikan, director of the Walters Art Museum and Arthur Houghton, a former curator at the Getty Museum, to discuss looted antiquities and transparency in American museums at 6 p.m. Jan. 24 in the National Press Club ballroom. The event will be moderated…
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NPC Communicator Debate
This event will be moderated by Immediate Past President Alan Bjerga.
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Get It Online: Lunch & Learn Series
"Get It Online" Lunch and Learn Series:Over the Shoulder of Social Media ManagersFriday, December 9, 201112:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.McClendon Room, 14th Floor, The National Press ClubMembers' Only; Must Purchase Own Lunch from Reliable Source Description: What metrics should I use to assess the success of my online campaigns?Where can I find digital marketing advice?When is the best time to Tweet?Who is reading what I post on my organization's Facebook wall?Why am I spending so much time glued to my computer? Journalists and Communicators alike are grappling with issues related to social media. If…
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Meet the Press Club
It’s not Sunday, but it’s time to Meet the Press Club again. Mingle with your fellow members, new or veteran, print or broadcast, reporter or communicator, all are welcome. Meet the Press Club is an exclusive, for members only, event and is specifically designed as a forum for Club members to network and establish business contacts among fellow members. While there is no formal program for this “Happy Hour” gathering, members will be encouraged to bring forward ideas for better ways to network within the Club. That includes interactions among journalists and communicators as well as those…
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Club House to become Speakeasy for an Evening with 20's Syle Drinks, Jazz and More!!
Club House to become Speakeasy for an evening, October 3On October 3 the Club House of the National Press Club will become a 1920s-era Speakeasy, replete with Prohibition-era cocktails and entertainment. In honor of NPC Luncheon Speaker Ken Burns' newest documentary, 'Prohibition,' members are invited to relive the days of Prohibition. In the Reliable Source, Prohibition-era cocktails will be served - some in coffee mugs to elude the authorities.The Maureen Mullaney quartet will perform a combination of Roaring 20s era music and contemporary jazz and blues standards in the Truman Lounge from…
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International Correspondents Discussion on Media Development in Afghanistan
National Press Club member Mahtab Farid, who recently returned from 16 months in Afghanistan training more than 100 journalists, will explain how journalism is evolving in the country. In a presentation sponsored by the International Correspondents Committee, Farid will discuss how journalism is playing a key role in the country’s reconstruction efforts and will share some of her personal experiences working with the Afghan media, especially the training of women reporters, from her base in Bagram province. Farid served as a regional public diplomacy officer in eastern Afghanistan for the…
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