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Darlene Shields Receives Top Club Honor for Volunteers; 44 Others Also Recognized
Darlene Shields, who chairs the National Press Club's Photography Committee, received the Club's top honor for her contributions and volunteer efforts in 2009. NPC President Donna Leinwand selected Shields as the winner of the 2009 Berny Krug Award from among the many dedicated Club members who contribute time, talent and enthusiasm to making the Club the premier journalism institution. Shields received the award Jan. 8 at a reception honoring the Club's top volunteers. Leinwand said she asked Shields to "start anew to make our Photography Committee vibrant, welcoming, inclusive and exciting…
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Investors Who Stuck with 401(k) Plans Now Benefiting, Mutual Fund Experts Say
The market downturn of late 2007 brought the balances in 401(k) and other defined contribution accounts down by “almost one-quarter in 2008,” the president of Investment Company Institute said at a Newsmaker Jan. 8. Paul Stevens said it has "caused some in the press and policy communities to question the value of 401 (k) and other defined contribution plans.” During that time, American workers still supported their 401(k) plans and stayed the course—and those who did so are now being rewarded, according to ICI survey data. He and two other mutual fund industry leaders discussed how 401(k)…
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Metromix DC Highlights Fourth Estate, Chef Delbert
Metromix's Sammy Kobrosly recently profiled the Fourth Estate Restaurant and Executive Chef Susan Delbert for the Sammy K's Nightlife Saga Blog. Sammy K had this to say about the Fourth Estate: "First off, the history behind the National Press Club and knowing that everyone from Wolf Blitzer to George Clooney to Eleanor Roosevelt have come there is reason enough for a geek like me to freak out, but then you have Executive Chef Susan Delbert, whose cuisine takes things to a whole new level." In a bonus segment, Chef Delbert demonstrates a new menu item, the mango-cranberry-orange salad. The…
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AFL-CIO President Says Courage Missing in Health Care Debate
Click here to view the photo gallery The AFL-CIO's new president, Richard Trumka, urged government officials to put far greater priority in coming weeks on improving the nation’s economy in such areas as jobs, worker rights and health care. "This is a moment that cries out for political courage, but it is not much in evidence," he said at a Jan. 11 Luncheon. Trumka, a past president of the United Mine Workers of America, succeeded longtime AFL-CIO President John Sweeney in September as the top executive of the country's largest labor organization. Trumka summarized his travels since Jan. 1 to…
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NPC Members Added to Standing Committee
NPC members Thomas Burr of the Salt Lake Tribune and Joe Morton of the Omaha World Herald are the new members of the Standing Committee of Correspondents, it was announced Tuesday. They join two other NPC members, Maureen Groppe of Gannett News Service, and Lisa Mascaro of the Las Vegas Sun, on the five-member committee.
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Walker Calls for Commission to Make Tough Budget Choices
When President Obama gives his State of the Union speech in February, he must begin preparing the country for tough decisions on federal spending by endorsing a budget commission, according to a former federal official who has forged a reputation for sober analysis of the country’s fiscal challenges. In a Jan. 11 Newsmaker, David Walker, former U.S. comptroller and former head of the Government Accountability Office, warned that structural deficits caused by entitlement spending have left the United States “dangerously dependent on foreign lenders” and threaten the ability of Americans to…
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Brzezinski: Moving Backward to Go Forward
“Sometimes you have to take a big step backwards in order to move forward,” Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe and The Joe Scarborough Show on ABC Radio Network told an audience of 250 Jan. 12. Joined by Joe Scarborough, Brzezinski discussed her memoir, "All Things at Once," and their experiences working together. On her 39th birthday, Brzezinski was fired from CBS. “The network was under new management. In television you are a commodity, and they didn’t like my looks,” she said. Scarborough added, “There is a lot of misogyny in the networks—in fact it is rampant and it is…
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Leinwand Sent to Cover Haiti Quake, Rescue Efforts
President Donna Leinwand left Washington Thursday to cover aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti. Leinwand, who reports on international disasters and domestic law enforcement for USA Today, has covered more than 20 hurricanes, including Katrina, as well as the Asian tsunami and the war in Iraq. She will remain in Haiti indefinitely but promises to update Facebook and Twitter when she has access to communications. (Note from Wire editor: Please wish Donna safe travels through her Facebook page. Or send a note to Wire, and the Wire editor will pass it along.)…
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S.C. Attorney General Raises Concerns about Health Bill
Making deals to secure votes for legislation is a law of political compromise but it is not codified in the Constitution, according to one of the state leaders who is urging Congress to remove a provision of the Senate health care bill that benefits only Nebraska. South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster contends that one element of the massive bill -- an agreement to have the federal government pick up the entire cost of Medicaid expansion in Nebraska -- was inserted solely to secure the vote of Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. “That is not a reason that is recognized by the Constitution as…
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Bjerga Becomes 103rd NPC President
Alan Bjerga, a reporter for Bloomberg News, was installed as the 103rd president of the National Press Club at the annual membership meeting Jan. 15. Bjerga accepted the gavel from past President Sylvia Smith, who stood in for President Donna Leinwand. Leinwand, a reporter for USA Today, was dispatched to Haiti to cover the earthquake and rescue efforts so was not able to attend the meeting. A black-tie party celebrating Bjerga's inaugural is Jan. 30. Tickets are $75 and can be purchased by calling 202-662-7501 or by emailing [email protected].
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