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"Beyond the North Wind" Dinner at The Fourth Estate Restaurant (POSTPONED)
Join us at The Fourth Estate Restaurant at 6:30pm on March 26 for the "Beyond the North Wind" dinner with James Beard Award-winning author Darra Goldstein. Russian cookbooks tend to focus on the food that was imported from France in the nineteenth century or the impoverished food of the Soviet era. Beyond the North Wind explores the true heart of Russian food, a cuisine that celebrates whole grains, preserved and fermented foods, and straightforward but robust flavors. Goldstein is the founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, named Publication of the Year by the James…
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NPC Communicators Breakfast: Communicating To Change Behaviors
Public relations pioneer Edward Bernays was infamous for his manipulative campaign in the late 1920's to increase cigarette smoking among women. Today Truth Initiative is dedicated to making tobacco use a thing of the past and is a leader in using communications to affect behavioral change. The organization's Managing Director of Communications Sarah Shank will make breakfast presentation on how they do this, Wednesday, July 17, from 8-9 a.m. in the Cosgrove Lounge at the National Press Club. This professional development session for reporters and communicators, sponsored by the Club…
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Communicators Breakfast: Best-selling Author Les McKeown on Being a “Synergist” and Leading a Successful Team
From cloakrooms to boardrooms, gridlock is a familiar term in Washington, and it’s not always used to describe a traffic tie-up on the Beltway. Les McKeown, an advisor to companies and organizations on accelerated growth, will speak at the Communicators Breakfast on Wednesday, June 11 at 8 a.m., to describe the role of the “Synergist” and it leads an organization passed inertia to achieve world-class success. According to McKeown, every successful team has a critical player, the Synergist, who can lead three other types of players, the bold dreamers (Visionaries), the pragmatic realists (…
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Personal Branding
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NPC Freelancers' Meeting
Jamila Bey, radio/TV reporter, producer and writer formerly for NPR and now with Russian Broadcasting, has agreed to speak to our committee (she is the former chair) about tricks of the trade of pitching and preparing a freelance piece for radio or television. Obviously she has great INSIDE KNOWLEDGE (she also just recently got a long piece in the New York Times!). So come one and all. Here's a new way to expand your freelance opportunities (and if you haven't noticed, radio and TV seem to be doing better these days than do newspapers). Tuesday, July 19 in the McClendon Room.. 8:30am…
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NPC Freelancers Breakfast
NPC Freelancers are invited to meet for breakfast at 8:30am Tuesday, April 26 in the McClendon Room before attending the 2011 Curtis B. Hurley Symposium - The Future of Public Broadcasting: Innovating to Connect Communities from 9am to Noon in the Conference Rooms. Over breakfast we will discuss networking strategies and best practices for meeting editors and publishers. You are welcome to attend either one or both events. Please note that you must RSVP for the Symposium to [email protected]. The 2011 Curtis B. Hurley SymposiumThe Future of Public Broadcasting: Innovating to…
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"Georgian Feast" Dinner at The Fourth Estate Restaurant
Darra Goldstein is the Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, Emerita at Williams College and Founding Editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, named the 2012 Publication of the Year by the James Beard Foundation. She has published widely on literature, culture, art, and cuisine and has organized several exhibitions, including Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005, at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. In addition to serving as Editor in Chief of the James Beard-nominated Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, she is the author of…
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"Rasika: Flavors of India" Dinner at The Fourth Estate Restaurant
Hors d’oeuvres will be served at 6:30pm with dinner following at 7pm. The cost is $95 for individual tickets, with a $10 discount when purchasing two of the "Couples Discount" tickets. NPC Members are eligible for an additional 15% discount on all their tickets with login. Wines will be paired with every course; the exact vintner to be determined. A copy of "Rasika: Flavors of India" is included with each individual ticket; one copy for each pair of couples tickets. MENU Hors d’oeuvres Cauliflower bezule, South Indian spicy fried cauliflower florets Shammi kebab, lamb patties with mint-…
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