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Charlie Schaeffer, retired executive editor
Charles (Charlie) P. Schaeffer, a retired executive editor at The Kiplinger Washington Editors and a 59-year member of the National Press Club, died April 5. He was 94 and had lived in Pittsboro, N.C., after retiring from Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine. "He was funny, he was kind and he was a hell of a writer no matter what the assignment," said Ted Miller, former magazine editor. Although a specialist in health an recipient of a award from the American Heart Association, Schaeffer quickly shifted to financial issues when the magazine changed its name from Changing Times to …
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Herb Bloom, pioneering TV producer
Herbert (Herb) Bloom, a pioneering TV producer and seven-year member of the National Press Club, died May 2. He was 78 and lived in Washington. A self-described “boy from the Bronx,” the New York native developed a love for riding horses and collecting southwestern art. “As executive producer, he didn’t so much cover the news, rather he choreographed the people who made it reach our living rooms,” said his stepson, David Fox. “Innovative and inquisitive, to say the least, Herb did everything that he could to get the story.” Bloom graduated from Stuyvesant High School and Yeshiva University…
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Long-time Club employee Gonzalo Cabrera
Long-time Club employee Gonzalo Cabrera passed away on Saturday. He was a longtime valued and loved Press Club employee. He was devoted to his family and enjoyed a good joke, once collaborating with the late Jack Kujawski, Reliable Source bartender, to persuade a new employee that his work at the club was a sideline and he was actually the owner of a cattle ranch and vegetable farm.
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Texas TV station managing editor Allen Manning dies at 57
William A. "Allen" Manning, managing editor of WFAA in Dallas,Texas, a seven-year, non-resident member of the National Press Club, died on March 10 at the age of 57. In addition to managing newsrooms across Texas, Manning also love to write, his colleagues said. He tweeted his thoughts under the handle @roadmonkeyone. His poetry is published in his blog, Manning Ranch. Read a tribute from his WFAA colleagues here.
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Award-winning journalist succumbs to COVID-19
Pablo Sanchez, an award-winning Washington broadcast correspondent and producer for Univision, died in late February after contracting COVID-19. He was a member pf the National Press Club for some 30 years and a frequent patron of the Club's Reliable Source restaurant. A native of Columbia, Sanchez won an Emmy as a producer of "Saturday Magazine," a public-affairs program during his tenure at WTOP, now WUSA Channel 9. He started his long-time Washington, D.C., career at WTOP and worked at WJLA Channel 7 as a public-affairs producer and reporter before returning to Channel 9. He joined the…
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Raymond Galant elevated food and drug coverage, 91
Raymond Galant, a member of the National Press Club during his Washington career in public relations and as highly regarded reporter covering the food chemical industry, died Jan. 27 due to complications from Covid-19. He was 91 and had lived in Boca Raton, Fla. Raymond Galant Galant was born in Mahanoy City, Pa., and got his first reporting job with the Mahanoy City Record American. He earned a BA degree in journalism from Penn State University in 1952 and later endowed a scholarship for communications students from Schuylkill County, Pa. While in the Army, Galant was assigned to Ft.…
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Golden Owl E. Bruce Harrison dies at 88
E. Bruce Harrison, a 51-year Communicator member of the National Press Club, died January 16. He was a Club Golden Owl. Harrison, a resident of Arlington, Virginia, and a frequent lunchtime diner at the Reliable Source pub, ran his own environmental communications company. He was also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. A 68-year member of the Society of Professional Journalists, he was among those who created "Project Watchdog," the media's effort to engage the public in a dialogue about the role of free and ethical news media in a democracy that guarantees freedom of the press.…
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Chuck Lewis, former AP and Hearst bureau chief, dies at 80
Chuck Lewis, a prominent figure in Washington journalism for more than three decades and a longtime National Press Club member, died March 20 in Arlington, Virginia. He was 80. Lewis died of complications from multiple myeloma and oral cancer.. He served as bureau chief for the Associated Press and then Hearst Newspapers running two of the largest Washington news operations in the last golden era of print journalism. But Lewis always enjoyed shoe-leather reporting, whether he was whipping out his reporter’s notebook to cover the annual National Spelling Bee or winning national awards for his…
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25-year Club member Jim Wallace, Smithsonian photography chief, dies at 77
Jim Wallace views some of his photos from the 1960s civil rights struggle on display at a National Press Club Photography Committee exhibition at the Club. Photo: Marshall J. Cohen James H. Wallace, a 25-year member of the National Press Club and former director of Curator and Photographic Services at the Smithsonian Institution, died at his home in Melbourne, Fla., June 14. Wallace served several years as vice chair of the Club’s Photography Committee and assisted the Club in its transition to the digital world. He received several Vivian Awards for his service to the Club. At the…
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