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Early data journalist documented racial inequality, oppression over 50 years
Club President Lisa Matthews, left, talks with author Michelle Duster at a National Press Club Virtual Book event Feb. 23. Photos by Alan Kotok Beginning in the early 2000s, demolition began on an aging public housing community in Chicago named for Ida B. Wells, the pioneering investigative journalist and activist who cast a light on systemic lynching in the United States over a five-decade career. As the structures fell, author Michelle Duster felt as if the public memory of her great-grandmother’s courageous actions was slowly being erased — even as the country reeled from many of the…
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Director of ‘Chicago 7’ sees shades of 1968 protests in today’s political unrest
National Press Club President Lisa Matthews (top left) talks with Aaron Sorkin, Eddie Redmayne and Sacha Baron Cohen (clockwise from top right) during a Feb. 18 Headliners Virtual Newsmaker about the Netflix documentary "The Trial of the Chicago 7." Photo by Alan Kotok Fifteen years ago, Aaron Sorkin began laying the groundwork for a film based on one of the most compelling legal showdowns of the late 1960s. Now that "The Trial of the Chicago 7" finally has been released, the writer and director told a National Press Club Headliners Virtual Newsmaker audience, it is unsettling to note…
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Former hostages call for captives’ release as part of negotiations with Iran over nuclear weapons
As the Biden administration debates negotiating with Iran over its nuclear weapons, it should prioritize the release of captives held by the regime, former hostages said during a National Press Club Virtual Headliners event Friday, Feb. 12. Nizar Zakka, Barry Rosen and Xiyue Wang, who were all held for varying lengths of time by Iran, said discussions over reviving the previous nuclear deal or agreeing to a new one must include hostage release, which Secretary of State Antony Blinken said is a “top tenet” of diplomacy. “I know this is a big ask for the new administration, but the U.S. has a…
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Girl Scouts CEO Batty: 'We still need girls-only spaces'
One 16-year-old built a heliport for her community while another built a maternity hospital in her family’s former village in India. Each won the highest honor bestowed by Girl Scouts of the USA -- the Gold Award -- and their achievements serve as examples of leadership that can emerge from scouting, Judith Batty, the the organization's interim chief executive, said at a National Press Club Virtual Headliners event Thursday, Feb. 11. Batty, the first Black woman to head GSUSA, is a lifetime Girl Scout and daughter of a troop leader, she told Club President Lisa Mathews in an interview. She…
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Good media relations help companies prosper, Barks counsels in ‘Reporters Don’t Hate You’
A company does better if it has a good relationship with the media, and it's best if someone on its press team is a former reporter. Those are two recommendations by National Press Club member Ed Barks in his latest book, "Reporters Don’t Hate You, 100+ Amazing Media Relations Strategies," which was featured at a National Press Club Book Rap on Feb. 4. "Companies that fail to include former reporters in their media relations shop put themselves at an extreme disadvantage," Barks said. "These folks know how reporters think and what they need -- critical information they can translate to their…
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Panera focuses on values to survive pandemic
A focus on values has helped Panera Bread navigate the coronavirus pandemic that has devastated the restaurant industry, the bakery-cafe chain's chief executive Niren Chaudhary said during a virtual National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event on Feb. 9. Instead of a patchwork response targeted solely on revenue decline, Panera management took a step back, identifying broader goals to guide its actions in order to survive the outbreak and thrive afterwards. “What should be some of our values that we must use as a filter to make our decisions so that we do it the right way for the long term…
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Club praises lawmakers’ efforts for press freedom
The National Press Club applauded on Thursday efforts by U.S. lawmakers to advance press freedom. Legislation filed in the House Thursday would bar foreign aid for government entities that the U.S. government determines to have egregiously violated journalists’ human rights, and it would require sanctions on individuals who participated in such acts. The bill, named “The Jamal Khashoggi Press Freedom Accountability Act of 2021,” was authored in the House by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. A companion measure was offered in the Senate last year by Democratic Sens. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont and…
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Biden congratulates Matthews on becoming Club president
President Joe Biden congratulated Lisa Nicole Matthews on becoming National Press Club president, the first time in five years that the nation’s chief executive has extended well wishes to the Club’s leader. “I am confident you will lead with integrity, promote fact over fiction, and work tirelessly as part of the institution’s all-female leadership team, to keep The National Press Club strong and vibrant during these challenging times,” Biden wrote in a Jan. 30 letter (embedded below). “I am encouraged by your commitment to increase the diversity and inclusiveness among members and in turn,…
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Businesses can do well by doing good, says PR pioneer Novelli
As social marketing pioneer Bill Novelli tells it, the corporate world has a unique role to play in combating today’s challenges — and businesses that step up to the plate are likely to reap financial rewards. “I call it doing well by doing good,” Novelli said during a virtual National Press Club Book Rap conversation on Jan. 29. “When they can both create financial and social value, that’s the sweet spot.” Businesses that do so will appeal to the next generation of customers, said Novelli, founder of the Business for Impact program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business…
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Dan Rather swears in Lisa Matthews as Club president at online inaugural gala, calls her work 'essential, noble'
Lisa Nicole Matthews placed her left hand on the Associated Press Stylebook, raised her right hand and was sworn in as the 114th president of the National Press Club by legendary CBS broadcast veteran Dan Rather Saturday at the Club’s virtual inaugural gala. “The country needs you and the National Press Club needs you -- now more than ever," Rather told Matthews. "The country needs you to find out and communicate what is going on, what is really going on, and tell it. Lisa, yours now is especially essential, noble work.” Matthews, assignment editor for U.S. Video at The Associated Press,…
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