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NPC Book Rap: Dorothy Butler Gilliam - "Trailblazer"
Legendary civil rights journalist and activist Dorothy Butler Gilliam shared her aptly-titled new memoir, "Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on January 24, 2019.
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with CVS Health CEO Larry Merlo
Following CVS Health’s $69 billion acquisition of Aetna, CVS Health President and CEO Larry Merlo discussed how his company plans to address challenges in the health care system at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on January 14, 2019.
Type: Media
The Inauguration of NPC President Alison Kodjak
The inauguration of Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak. 112th President of the National Press Club on Jan. 12, 2019. Kodjak was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and during her inaugural address told a sold out ballroom audience that she wants to widen the Club’s role protecting freedom of the press to include gaining greater access to government information so people can know what their government is doing.
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with Adm. Karl Schultz
As climate change continues to erode seasonal ice coverage in the Arctic, access through the Northwest Passage continues to expand, opening up greater possibilities for scientific exploration and international trade. With just two aging icebreaker vessels currently capable of navigating this expanding frontier (compared with Russia’s fleet of 41 icebreaking ships), the U.S. Coast Guard has made continued pleas to Congress to appropriate adequate funds to build a new heavy polar ship and expand America’s polar icebreaker fleet. On December 6, 2018, Admiral Karl L. Schultz, the 26th Commandant…
Type: Media
2018 NPC Fourth Estate Award Honoring Dean Baquet and Martin Baron
Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron and New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet receive the National Press Club's most esteemed award, the Fourth Estate Award, at a Press Club gala in their honor on November 29, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Baquet and Baron are the 46th recipients of the award, which recognizes journalists who have made significant contributions to the field.
Type: Media
NPC Book Rap - Marvin Kalb: "Enemy of the State"
In his latest book, “Enemy of the People: Trump’s War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy,” legendary journalist Marvin Kalb pulls from our recent history to prove that the great American experiment would suffer certain failure if not for a free and vigorous press. Kalb explained how he arrived at this conclusion at a National Press Club Headliners event on November 15, 2018.
Type: Media
National Press Club Journalism Insitute Briefing on Austin Tice
A briefing with Robert O'Brien, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs, discussing the Austin Tice case. Also the National Press Club, along with the Free Austin Tice Coalition partners including: The Washington Post, McClatchy, Reporters Without Borders, and Georgetown University, discuss a new project: "Night Out For Austin Tice."
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with Sec. Robert Wilkie
Tenth Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Hon. Robert Wilkie assessed the performance of his Department and outlined his goals for the care of our nation's Veterans just before the Veterans Day holiday at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on November 9, 2018.
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with Doris Kearns Goodwin
On the eve of the midterm elections, world-renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin shared her seventh book, “Leadership in Turbulent Times,” at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon, November 5, 2018.
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with Sen. Ben Sasse
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) discussed his book, “THEM: Why We Hate Each Other – and How to Heal,” at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon and Book Signing Event on October 31, 2018.
Type: Media