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U.S. press leaders to Zimbabwe: Free jailed journalist
The leaders of the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute have called on authorities in Zimbabwe to release Hopewell Chin’ono, an award-winning journalist who has been jailed on trumped-up charges and held in reportedly inhumane conditions, Chin’ono has won the CNN-sponsored African Journalist of the Year award and was named a Nieman Journalism fellow at Harvard University, among many other honors. Now he has become one of several dozen journalists jailed across Africa as a consequence of their work. In Zimbabwe, he is one of scores of people, opposition leaders…
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National Press Club Honors Linda Tirado With Press Freedom Award
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2020--The National Press Club is honoring Linda Tirado, an author and freelance photographer, with a 2020 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, Club leaders announced Wednesday. Tirado was taking pictures of a street protest in Minneapolis on May 30 when a policeman’s foam bullet hit her left eye, costing Tirado most of her sight in that eye. Tirado is suing the Minneapolis police department, and she faces mounting medical bills for her injury but has no health insurance. "There's no way that they could have mistaken me — with a professional camera — for anything but working…
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Release Al Jazeera Journalist Jailed Years Without Trial, Say U.S. Press Leaders
WASHINGTON — Authorities in Egypt must promptly free Mahmoud Hussein, an Al Jazeera producer who has been detained without trial for more than three and a half years, leaders of the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute said. Hussein, an Egyptian who works for the Al Jazeera Arabic channel in Qatar, has been imprisoned since December 2016 — more than 1,300 days ago. He was detained during a trip to Egypt to visit his family and has been kept in solitary confinement and denied medical treatment for a broken bone he sustained early in his incarceration nearly…
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National Press Club, Journalism Institute Condemn Hong Kong Crackdown
WASHINGTON, August 11--Leaders of the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute condemn China’s crackdown on the press in Hong Kong. Hong Kong police arrested on Monday at least eight journalists, including media tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai, and raided his newsroom in the latest assault on press freedom under a new “national security law” that China is using to repress Hong Kong’s citizens. Even before this week’s raids, Hong Kong authorities had attacked journalists covering pro-democracy protests and denied a New York Times reporter a work permit, among other…
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National Press Club’s Board votes to extend temporary suspension of in-person services through May 16
The Board of Governors of the National Press Club (NPC) voted Monday evening to extend the temporary suspension of in-person Club services through at least May 16. The NPC Board’s initial March 16 decision to suspend operations was a first in the Club’s 113-year history and came after the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued new guidelines concerning in-person social gatherings. Since then, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) has ordered the suspension of all in-person dining services in the District, and more recently, issued an order requiring the closure of all non-essential businesses…
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National Press Club to help restaurants with national “Night IN For Austin Tice” on April 29
The National Press Club has developed a new program to help restaurants participating in the upcoming Night Out For Austin Tice, which was recently rescheduled for July 14 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The new program – “Night IN For Austin Tice” - will encourage members of the press freedom community to order take-out from participating restaurants on April 29 (Night Out’s original date). “We asked our restaurant partners to step up and help us with a program to raise awareness about the case of Austin Tice, the award-winning journalist being detained in Syria. They were there for us last…
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National Press Club and Journalism Institute support VOA and its journalism
The National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute stand with Voice of America and its director, Amanda Bennett, against unsupported criticism by the White House of its coronavirus coverage. Bennett is a highly respected journalist who has been a staunch advocate of the independence guaranteed in The VOA Charter signed by President Gerald R. Ford in 1976. To claim, as the White House has done, that VOA has been reporting Chinese propaganda flies in the face of the facts. VOA has reported on the Chinese undercount of coronavirus deaths in the city of Wuhan, reported on …
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Press Club Leaders Urge Justice for Danny Pearl
WASHINGTON, April 3--The National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute urged Pakistani courts to reconsider a ruling that would lessen the sentence of a man convicted of masterminding the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Press reports indicate a Pakistani court ruled today to reduce charges against Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was sentenced to death in 2002 for being the ringleader of Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in that country. The ruling today overturned the murder charge against Sheikh and the court sentenced him to seven years for the…
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National Press Club’s Board votes to extend temporary suspension of in-person services
WASHINGTON -- The Board of Governors of the National Press Club (NPC) voted Wednesday evening to extend the temporary suspension of in-person Club services through at least April 27. This is an extension of the Board’s March 16 decision, which called for an immediate suspension of Club operations for a minimum of 14 days in an effort to mitigate the risks posed to the NPC community by the COVID-19 pandemic. The NPC Board’s initial decision to suspend operations was a first in the Club’s 113-year history and came after the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued new guidelines…
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Second annual Night Out For Austin Tice rescheduled for July 14
National awareness campaign to bring home detained journalist and Marine veteran postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic WASHINGTON, March 21, 2020 -- The National Press Club (NPC) announced today that this year's national Night Out For Austin Tice, originally set for April 29, will now take place on July 14, 2020, in an effort to stem the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic. "After talking with the Tice family and our friends in the restaurant industry, we believe postponing Night Out is in everyone's best interests," said NPC Executive Director Bill McCarren. "We know the restaurant industry is…
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