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The State of Defense in Washington and Beyond
From new committee leadership in Congress to President Obama’s latest nominee to lead the Pentagon, 2015 could be a particularly newsworthy year for U.S. defense issues. National Press Club member Adam Konowe interviews Defense News editor and television host Vago Muradian about military-related policy, the industrial base and the evolution of defense journalism during the last decade or two. Muradian also provides his insight on what to watch in the year to come, including the budget process at home and technology-enhanced challenges from adversaries abroad.
Type: Media
Outgoing NPC President Says Journalists Must Not Be Deterred After Terrorist Attack In Paris
Outgoing National Press Club President Myron Belkind believes the attack on the office of the Paris satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo is another example of the increasing dangers to journalists. Belkind discusses press freedom in this edition of Update-1, which is hosted by 50-year NPC member Irv Chapman. Belkind says journalists must maintain high professional standards even if there is increasing global intolerance for a free press.
Type: Media
Just How Contemporary is the PR Industry?
Public relations is widely viewed as a contemporary development, but PR executive and lecturer Shelley Spector begs to differ. As founder of the Museum of Public Relations (www.prmuseum.org), based at Baruch College in New York, Spector’s extensive collection of artifacts, books and video interviews shows that PR can be traced back thousands of years with roots in psychology and other social sciences. NPC member Adam Konowe spoke with Spector, whose museum was recently profiled by the New York Times (www.nytimes.com/2014/09/15/business/media/museum-to-hone-image-of-the-p…), about the…
Type: Media
Press Club member Charlotte Grimes Discusses Why Opinionated News Coverage Has Proven Successful
Bias is a four-letter word when it comes to news coverage. With the Fox News Channel consistently ahead of the other cable news networks in the ratings, this edition of Update-1 examines why infusing news coverage with opinion has proven so successful from a business standpoint. National Press Club member Charlotte Grimes, an expert in news literacy and the recently-retired Knight Chair in Political Reporting at Syracuse University, talks with Press Club member Violet Ikonomova about when and how biased reporting became widely accepted and why she thinks it's harmful to a democratic society.
Type: Media
Giovanna Dell'Orto: The Challenges of Reporting on Immigration
The challenges of covering immigration from the southern borders of the U.S. and the EU are the focus of the latest edition of Update-1, the National Press Club's podcast. NPC member Giovanna Dell'Orto, a journalism professor and former Associated Press immigration reporter, talks with International Correspondents Committee chair Molly McCluskey about how media coverage of immigration challenges is often too narrowly focused, and fails to take into account the cultural, political, and ecomomic factors behind mass migration.
Type: Media
Actor and radio show host Sean Astin is not impressed with the state of journalism
Actor and radio show host Sean Astin says preparation is the key to public discourse. Astin is often interviewed by reporters but he's not impressed with the state of journalism, saying many of the journalists he interacts with are not as prepared as they should be. Austin prides himself on being well-researched for his radio show, "Vox Populi." He spoke recently at the National Press Club and his appearance is featured in this latest edition of Update-1.
Type: Media
A Reference Guide to the Language of Politics
Politics is the focus of the latest edition of Update-1. Specifically, the language of politics and the terms and phrases we hear on a daily basis. Broadcast Committee member Jared Rizzi, the White House correspondent for SiriusXM Satellite Radio, interviews Chuck McCutcheon, a co-author of "Dog Whistles, Walk-Backs, and Washington Handshakes: Decoding the Jargon, Slang, and Bluster of American Political Speech." They discuss who uses what terms against whom, and some surprising examples of their use.
Type: Media
From The Diet Food We Eat To Why Men Cheat, An Evolutionary Biologist Argues Misconceptions Abound
From popular diets that encourage us to eat like our ancestors to the idea that a man who cheats can blame his behavior on his DNA, misconceptions about evolution abound, argues evolutionary biologist Marlene Zuk on the latest edition of Update-1, the National Press Club podcast. In reality, she says, evolution is not synonymous with progress; it has no goal and no endpoint. Efforts to emulate our ancestors, then, are often misguided, says Zuk, a professor of ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Minnesota who was in Washington for the American Psychological Association’s…
Type: Media
Ken Burns discusses his new PBS series “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History” at an NPC luncheon
The latest edition of Update-1 features filmmaker Ken Burns and his recent trip to the National Press Club to promote his new series, “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.” The seven-part series looks at Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and recently ran on PBS stations. Burns says no other family has "touched as many Americans as the Roosevelts.” According to Burns, there is an "avalanche" of information about the Roosevelts, and he says this series shows them to be a “complicated Russian novel.”
Type: Media
Social Media Series Part 3 -- The Use Of Images
In part 3 of the National Press Club’s series on social media, NPC member Shannon Fisher leads us through a roundtable discussion of the use of images in social media. Her guests are Director of Media Entrepreneurship at American University Amy Eisman, Managing Editor of American University’s Investigative Reporting Workshop Lynne Perri, and American University Professor of Communication Scott R. Talan, who specializes in public and strategic communication. The panelists discuss our growing visual culture and the effectiveness of certain types of graphics across various social media…
Type: Media