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NPC Luncheon with Ron Shaich
On April 26, 2019 Panera Bread founder Ron Shaich delivered a speech at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon detailing why he believes Wall Street’s fixation on short-term profits has led to greater social instability and political polarization in American society, and why executives and policy-makers need to re-invest in America’s future.
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with Larry Kudlow
On April 23, 2019 Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council under President Trump, spoke to recent trends in market volatility and discuss other factors that may affect the U.S. and global economy at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon.
Type: Media
Campaign 2020: How to follow the money and report essential, untold election stories
On March 18, 2019 the National Press Club Journalism Institute hosted a workshop at the National Press Club on campaign finance for political reporters and other journalists who don’t usually cover finance but will be writing about it during the 2020 election. Speakers were: Ellen Weintraub, Chairwoman and Commissioner, Federal Election Commission Paul S. Ryan, Vice President, Policy & Litigation, Common Cause Anita Kumar, White House Correspondent and Associate Editor, Politico Sheila Krumholz, Executive Director and former Research Director, Center for Responsive Politics
Type: Media
Crimes against Americans abroad: Who's being held accountable?
On April 2, 2019 the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation and National Press Club Journalism Institute co-hosted a distinguished panel uniquely qualified to explore how to hold the right people accountable for crimes against Americans unjustly detained abroad. The program features the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation’s president and founder Diane Foley, the 2019 James W. Foley Freedom Award honorees, and Special Advisor and Head of the UN Investigative Team to Promote to Accountability for Da'esh/ISIL Crimes (UNITAD) Karim Khan. The panel will be moderated by Wall Street Journal national security…
Type: Media
NIGHT OUT FOR AUSTIN TICE - April 5 Update/Briefing
The National Press Club and it's Free Austin Tice Coalition partners will be joined by Marc and Debra Tice, Austin Tice’s parents, for a special press briefing on Friday, April 5 at 10:30 a.m. to discuss the progress of NIGHT OUT FOR AUSTIN TICE -- a campaign announced this past November to raise reward money for information leading to the safe return of Austin Tice, the award-winning journalist who was taken hostage in August of 2012 while covering the civil war in Syria.
Type: Media
The Kalb Report - A Conversation with Cokie Roberts
Having spent more than 40 years in broadcast journalism, having grown up in a family dedicated to public service, and having been named a “living legend” by the Library of Congress, Cokie Roberts is uniquely qualified to provide context and perspective on today’s hyper-partisan politics, the current media landscape, and their combined impact on the state of our democracy. On April 1, 2019, Roberts, who has been a mainstay of NPR since 1978 and ABC News since 1988, joined moderator Marvin Kalb at the National Press Club as part of the 25th anniversary season of the multi-award winning Kalb…
Type: Media
NPC Headliners Event: Holder & Schwarzenegger on Gerrymandering
Two of the nation's most prominent voices against gerrymandering shared the stage for the first time on March 26, 2019 immediately following oral arguments in two anti-gerrymandering cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. Eric H. Holder, Jr., the 82nd Attorney General, and Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger discussed why they believe redistricting reform is crucial to the future of our democracy at a National Press Club Headliners event.
Type: Media
NPC Newsmaker: Sen. Tammy Duckworth
As the nation approaches the 16th anniversary of the war in Iraq, combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) spoke at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on March 13, 2019 about what she believes our nation owes its service members and Veterans, and how she feels Congress is failing in its duty to provide our troops with the moral and legal backing they need and deserve to most effectively wage war.
Type: Media
NPC Book Rap: Jason Rezaian - "Prisoner"
The Washington Post's Jason Rezaian, recipient of the National Press Club’s 2015 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, shared his captivating memoir "Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on February 11, 2018.
Type: Media
NPC Forum: Using Sanctions to Protect Journalists
Lawmakers, former senior State Department officials and journalists gathered at the National Press Club on Feb. 11, 2019 for a discussion about the growing use of human rights sanctions to protect journalists around the world. Panelists at the event, sponsored by the National Press Club Journalism Institute and Club's Freedom of the Press Committee, included: Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., House Foreign Affairs member and former assistant secretary of State for human rights, democracy and labor Rob Berschinski, senior vice president for policy at Human Rights First and former deputy assistant…
Type: Media