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National Press Club honors Julie K. Brown with investigative journalism award
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Julie K. Brown, the Miami Herald journalist who gave voice to Jeffrey Epstein's long-ignored victims and prompted a legal re-examination of Epstein's predatory behavior, will receive the National Press Club Journalism Institute's 2019 Neil and Susan Sheehan award for investigative journalism. Brown's work revealed a decade-old secret plea bargain that hid the scope and details of the accusations against Epstein and denied the young women he victimized their day in court. The Herald's series – "Perversion of Justice" – led to a federal sex trafficking…
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Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley to deliver address on climate change at National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker this Thursday, Sept. 26
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Barbados' Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley will discuss how the forecasted 2.7 degree Fahrenheit rise in global temperatures in the near future will affect the island nation of Barbados and the 43 other small islands that make up the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker this Thursday, September 26th at 11:30 a.m. Speaking at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York City on Monday, Prime Minister Mottley delivered a stern warning to world leaders on the destabilizing domino-effect she…
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Immigration Courts in Crisis: Top Leaders for Immigration Judges, the American Bar Association and Immigration Lawyers to Discuss Sweeping Changes in Court Policy and Operations at National Press Club Newsmaker Panel 10 a.m., Sept. 27
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sept. 27, the National Press Club will host a panel to discuss sweeping and controversial changes in the nation's immigration courts. Panelists will be the Hon. Ashley Tabaddor, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges; Judy Perry Martinez, president of the American Bar Association; and Jeremy McKinney, second vice president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has set up temporary courts on the U.S. southern border and imposed more restrictive policies for asylum seekers.…
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U.S. Press Leaders Call For End To All Phony Charges Against Maria Ressa
WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Leaders of the National Press Club applauded on Tuesday a Philippine court decision to dismiss a cyber libel suit against award winning journalist Maria Ressa but urged that all trumped-up charges against her should likewise disappear. The court decision Tuesday dismissed one of several suits against Ressa, who has withstood a state-sanctioned campaign of intimidation. Ressa, the founder and CEO of the Rappler news site is appealing an earlier conviction on cyber libel charges as well as unfounded charges of having violated tax laws and foreign ownership rules. Ressa was…
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Press Leaders to Myanmar: Release Jailed American Journalists
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2021-The National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute urged the junta in Myanmar to promptly release from prison all journalists jailed there, including at least two Americans. Danny Fenster and Nathan Maung are the American journalists known to be detained in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, which has been wracked by unrest since a February coup. The National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and NPC Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane issued the following statement: “We call on the government of Myanmar to release…
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U.S. Press Leaders Protest Abuse of Journalists in Nicaragua
WASHINGTON, June 2, 2021--The National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute condemned the escalating harassment and intimidation of journalists in Nicaragua. National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and NPC Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane issued the following statement: “The recent wave of prosecutorial overreach in Nicaragua appears motivated to silence independent journalists. It is unjustified and should stop. Press freedom is a basic human right, and Nicaraguans should not be denied it.” Prosecutors in Nicaragua called in at least 20…
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Press Leaders Protest Stifling of Media in Belarus
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 3, 2021--Leaders of the National Press Club and the NPC Journalism Institute said Thursday that Aleksandr Lukashenko, the ruler of Belarus, must cease his long-running crackdown on free expression. Lukashenko has repressed an opposition movement and media professionals in Belarus since contested elections there last year, and he has all but extinguished an independent and free press, according to human rights groups. On May 23, Lukashenko ordered a fighter jet to force a civilian jetliner that had been flying from Greece to Lithuania to instead land in Belarus so that…
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U.S. Press Leaders Condemn Crackdown on Hong Kong's Journalists
WASHINGTON, June 17, 2021--U.S. press leaders strongly criticized on Thursday the latest assault on press freedom in Hong Kong--a police raid on the offices of the Apple Daily newspaper. National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and NPC Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane issued the following statement: “The people of Hong Kong are well acquainted with freedom of the press and understand its value in making society more efficient and just. They should not have to stand for this attack on journalism and journalists. We stand with our brothers and sisters in Hong Kong…
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News Leaders Statement On The Verdict In The Jerrod Ramos Trial
WASHINGTON, July 15 – Following is a statement by Lisa Nicole Matthews, President of the National Press Club and Angela Greiling Keane, President of the National Press Club Journalism Institute on the conclusion of the trial of Jerrod Ramos for the murder of journalists and employees of the Capital Gazette Newspaper in Annapolis, Md. “For the families of journalists Gerald Fishman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Wendy Winters and sales assistant Rebecca Smith there may never be closure for the murder of their loved ones, but today’s verdict in the trial of Jerrod Ramos sends a loud and clear…
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NPC Newsmaker: Belarus Opposition Leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya
Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the Belarus opposition leader, will give a Newsmaker news conference at the National Press Club at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 20 during a visit to Washington. The event will take place in person at the NPC and also will be live streamed on press.org. Her visit to Washington comes amid continuing unrest in Belarus and attacks on the media following last year’s presidential election that Tikhanovskaya claims to have won by an overwhelming majority of the popular vote against incumbent Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled since 1994. She has appealed to Western nations to…
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