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Club served as forum for debate over first to reach North Pole
On Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, the National Press Club History and Heritage Committee hosted Gilbert M. Grosvenor to talk about his book A Man of the World: My Life at National Geographic. Gilbert M. Grosvenor was interviewed by his brother, Ed Grosvenor, a member of our committee. In my brief introduction, I noted I had found the name of Gilbert and Ed’s grandfather, Gilbert H. Grosvenor, among the members listed in the Club’s 1914 yearbook, meaning Grosvenors had been part of the Club for about 110 years. But during the talk, Gilbert Grosvenor referred to how National Geographic had sponsored…
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New York Festivals honors Club's 'Kalb Report' series for lifetime achievement as it ends 28-year run
New York Festivals, which honors television, radio and film achievement, bestowed its lifetime achievement award Wednesday, Feb. 1, on The Kalb Report, the National Press Club’s public affairs forum, as it finishes its 28-year run. The award will be presented at the Festival’s Storytellers Gala on April 18 at the Centennial National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas. The New York Festivals Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes prominent industry leaders, innovators and driving forces in the broadcast industry whose accomplishments have advanced their field and made a lasting…
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National Press Club celebrates Eileen O'Reilly's inauguration
Eileen O'Reilly, managing editor of standards and training at Axios, was inaugurated Friday evening as the 116th President of the National Press Club, pledging to combat rampant disinformation, reinvigorate news deserts, and defend democracy and home and abroad. The 116th president of the National Press Club, Eileen O’Reilly, is sworn in by Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (r), aided by “First Husband” Cary O’Reilly on Feb. 3, 2023. Photo by Aileen Roberta Schlef O’Reilly–who was sworn in by Anthony Fauci, the longtime public…
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Haitian Ambassador Bocchit Edmond seeks international help to calm country's turbulence
Members of the International Correspondents Committee of the National Press Club experienced a delightful and thought-provoking Embassy Night on Jan. 27 as they visited the residence of Haiti's Ambassador to the U.S., Bocchit Edmond, and his wife, Alma Phanor Edmond. Members of the International Correspondents Committee of the National Press Club at home of Ambassador Bocchit Edmond and his wife, Alma Phanor Edmond, seated in middle, on Jan. 27. Photo by Embassy Conseiller Nicolas Mayard-Paul Ample cultural pleasures were tempered by the Ambassador’s description of the realities endured…
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Navy Secretary says US must move quickly to counter Chinese maritime threat
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro made clear during a luncheon address at the National Press Club that an increasingly bellicose China poses a threat to freedom of the seas that was once guaranteed by the unassailable primacy of the US Navy. He said China's floating of an intelligence-gathering balloon over the US has awakened Americans to the challenge posed by China. "It is no secret that the People’s Republic of China seeks to upend our dominance on the oceans across the globe," he warned. "The People’s Liberation Army Navy has added over 100 combatants to its fleet – a naval buildup that is…
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Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess discusses inspiration, artistic expression at book talk and performance
National Press Club President Eileen O'Reilly and choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about dance and Burgess’ development as an artist, during a Feb. 23 Press Club event. Photos by Peter West. It was the shadows darting from doorway to doorway that intrigued Dana Tai Soon Burgess when he visited a village in the tribal borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan. A State Department cultural ambassador promoting understanding through the global language of dance, Burgess soon realized the shadows were heavily veiled women. Burgess recalled that…
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Club mourns Lyons with moment of silence
The National Press Club mourned Dylan Lyons Friday with a moment of silence. Lyons, a reporter with Spectrum News 13, was shot and killed Feb. 22 while covering another shooting in Orlando, Florida. His colleague, photojournalist Jesse Walden, was also injured in the shooting and is now hospitalized. Club President Eileen O’Reilly made brief remarks before the moment of silence. An archive of the livestream is available online. Here is O’Reilly’s statement in its entirety: Good afternoon. I’m Eileen O’Reilly and I am the 116th president of the National Press Club. I’m also the managing editor…
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Press Club leaders criticize closing of Bangladeshi opposition newspaper
National Press Club President Eileen O’Reilly and National Press Club Journalism Institute President Gil Klein on Sunday criticized a decision last week by the Bangladeshi government to revoke the printing license of the opposition newspaper Dainik Dinkal. O'Reilly and Klein said in a statement that the decision "smacks of political retaliation, insecurity, and intolerance for dissenting views." The government-funded Bangladesh Press Council offered "specious grounds" for its decision to close the paper less than a year before Bangladesh's national elections, the club leaders said. O'Reilly…
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Panel calls for U.S. media to hold Indian leader accountable for 2002 massacre
Aakashi Bhatt, daughter of jailed whistleblower Sanjiv Bhatt. Photo: Alan Kotok The National Press Club screened an episode of the BBC documentary “India: The Modi Question,” about the 2002 riots and mass killings of Muslims in India's Gujarat state and their aftermath, on March 7. A panel that followed, with people who have first-hand connections to the events, called for news media in the U.S. to expose the key role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Gujarat state government leader at the time, in making it happen. The panel included an eyewitness to the massacre and family member, as…
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Amid escalating tensions with China, Marine Corps commandant fears miscalculation
Gen. David H. Berger told a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon audience Tuesday that his biggest worry as he nears completion of fours years as Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps is a miscalculation due to the refusal of China's military to communicate with its American counterpart. The four-star general, who will retire to his Virginia farm in July, said he fears that an incident involving an accidental or rogue "collision" with a U.S. ship or aircraft involving China might not be defused as it otherwise would be because seven months ago China cancelled military consultations with the…
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