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David M. North, aviator and editor, dies at 85
David M. North, an acclaimed aviator, retired editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology and a 45-year member of the National Press Club, died Nov. 24, at his home in St. Michaels, Maryland. He was 85. David M. North His son, Tristan North, recalls visits to the Club with his father when the aviation magazine had offices in the National Press Building in the 1970s and '80s. "And we celebrated his birthday in 2019 with a family dinner at the Club." This appreciation appeared in the magazine he edited for 28 years.
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Ash Gerecht, 97, newsletter publisher
Ash Gerecht, a 63-year member of the National Press Club and pioneering newsletter publisher, died Nov. 18 at his home in Silver Spring. He was 97. Ash Gerecht was a member of the National Press Club for 63 years. In the early 1970s, Gerecht successfully helped fight for equal treatment of newsletter publications seeking credentials to cover Congress from the House and Senate periodical press galleries. He started his first newsletter, Housing Affairs, with 11 subscribers in 1961 and built his Silver Spring-based business, CD Publications, to include more than two dozen newsletters with…
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CNN producer and writer Nina Ridge dies at 38
Nina Ridge, 38, a writer and producer for CNN International in Atlanta, Ga., died of cardiac arrest on Nov. 9. She was a non-resident member of the National Press Club since August 2017. Ms. Ridge was born in Tempe, Ariz., and grew up in the Houston, Texas, area. She worked at the Houston-based American Society of Karate prior to attending the University of Houston where in 2009 she earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. She interned at the Houston Fox TV channel, where she later was an assignment editor, and briefly at the Bilateral US-Arab Chamber of Commerce before becoming a…
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John Edward Hurley, chairman of McClendon Group, friendly Reliable Source regular, 85
John Edward Hurley was not one to follow the herd in journalism or other endeavors. Like his close friend and eventual business partner, pioneer female journalist Sarah McClendon, the 29-year National Press Club member pursued his own course while being a friendly and familiar figure at the Club's Reliable Source. Hurley died May 7 at a hospice in Arlington, Va., of lung cancer. He was 85. Hurley was chairman of the McClendon Group, which hosted meetings with newsmakers in the Club's 14th-floor room Hurley helped have named after the maverick White House correspondent. He noted that…
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67-year Club member Craig Lewis dies at 91
Some 70 years ago, the National Press Building was owned by the National Press Club and hosted dozens of Washington bureaus for newspaper, magazine, newsletter and broadcast outlets from across the country and around the world. It was the vibrant hub of a thriving media industry and the perfect place for an aspiring reporter to seek his or her fortune. In September 1952, Craig Lewis, a new graduate of UCLA, arrived in Washington and worked his way through Press Building offices hoping to find an entry-level job. He found one on the 11th floor as a copyboy in the McGraw-Hill Washington…
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Platinum Owl Walter S. Wingo, editor and columnist for U.S. News and World Report, dies
Walter S. Wingo, a retired editor and columnist for U.S. News & World Report and a 63-year member of the National Press Club, died on Aug. 8 in Arlington, Va. "On a staff of outstanding, good people at USN&WR, Walt stood out," wrote Julie Elkins Dear in a tribute. "Not only was he good at what he did, he was good to everyone. He lived a long and successful life and made many friends, all of whom were richer for having him as a colleague and friend."
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Broadcast/Podcast Team member David Melendy dies
David Melendy, a 32-year APRadio anchor and correspondent and a 21-year member of the National Press Club, died April 18 at George Washington Hospital. He was 71 and had cancer. At the Club, Melendy was an active member of the Broadcast/Podcast Team. He invested much time and effort on press freedom and media literacy causes, producing and hosting podcasts delving into these critically important subjects. Club President Michael Freedman, who as head of the UPI Radio organization competed with AP's Melendy, remembered David for his "deep and abiding love of journalism and broadcasting." …
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Lillian Brown, television pioneer and educator, dies at 106
Long-time National Press Club member Lillian Brown, who taught fledgling television news the importance of makeup and touched up the faces of every president from Dwight Eisenhower to Bill Clinton, was best known around the Club for putting the finishing touches on all of the guests on The Kalb Report for its first 15 seasons, beginning in 1994. She advised aspiring presidential candidate John Kennedy about how to look his best on television, and she was among the last people to help a distraught President Richard Nixon on the day he resigned from office. Washington Post writer – and Club…
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1976 Club President Bob Alden dies
Robert Alden, a former Washington Post editor, was the 1976 National Press Club president. Photo: Marie Marzi for The Washington Post. Former National Press Club President Robert Alden, who had been an active member for more than six decades, died June 7 at his home in McLean at the age of 87. The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease, his wife, Diane Alden, told the Washington Post. Alden had been a Washington Post news and layout editor for 48 years, helping to design and lay out the newspaper’s first section with stories that included the assassination of President John F.…
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Jane Seymour Wilson, 95, dies after contracting COVID-19
Jane Seymour Wilson, a pioneering consumer journalist, businesswoman and 48-year member of the National Press Club, died May 29. She was 95, had suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and died after contracting COVID-19 at the Arlington nursing home where she had lived for two years. Wilson was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Cumberland, Maryland. She graduated from Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, in 1946 with a bachelor of science degree in home economics. Hood later awarded her an honorary doctorate for her accomplishments as a journalist and businesswoman.…
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