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Widow of Slain Sri Lankan Journalist Describes His Murder
Sri Lankan journalist Sonali Samarasinghe, widow of slain Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickramatunga, described his assassination as she accepted the National Press Club’s 2009 International Freedom of the Press Award given to her husband posthumously on April 21. “Lasantha and I were used to being threatened,” said Samarasinghe, who also worked for The Sunday Leader in Colombo, Sri Lanka. “Over the years, he had been followed, dragged from his car, attacked with clubs and nearly arrested for what he wrote.” Just three weeks after their wedding, Wickramatunga was ambushed just five minutes…
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Science Fair Champ, Gay-Rights Activist Win Zimmerman, Club Scholarships
A science fair prize-taker and a gay-rights activist are the winners of the two scholarships the National Press Club awards high school seniors each spring. Cathryn Walker of San Antonio, Texas, will receive the $5,000 Richard G. Zimmerman Journalism Scholarship, and Mary Susman of Omaha, Nebraska, will take the National Press Club Scholarship for Journalism Diversity, which is up to $10,000 over four years. Walker has freelanced for the San Antonio Express newspaper and is editor-in-chief of her school's yearbook. She's won first place at her school's science fair, been named all-around…
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S. Korea Economic Official Previews G20, Sees Bank Levy Possible
The establishment of a global lending entity will be high on the agenda of the next G20 meeting, a U.S.-based economic adviser to the president of South Korea said at an April 23 Newsmaker press conference. The meeting finance ministers and world bank governors will be held in South Korea in November. Hyun-Song Shin, also a professor of economics at Princeton University, said the international lending agency could be patterned after a March currency trade accord among South Korea, Japan, China and some southeast Asian countries. He also said a multilateral agreement on a post-financial crisis…
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Dennis Quaid Features Club in Film "Chasing Zero"
Dennis Quaid's April 12 National Press Club address on preventing dangerous medical errors is featured in the actor's new documentary, "Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm.” Quaid, a patients' rights advocate, launched the film project as a result of the near-fatal Heparin overdose of his newborn twins in 2007. The film is scheduled to be nationally televised on The Discovery Channel on Saturday, May 1, as the first in ongoing patient health care series. "Chasing Zero," slated to premier globally at a global patient safety summit in Nice, France, last week, premiered online after…
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Exiled Eritrean Journalist Calls For Press Freedom in His Country
Despite having a fraction of its population, Eritrea has almost as many reporters in prison as China, a fact that highlighted an event at the National Press Club on April 27. Milkias M. Yohannes, an exiled Eritrean journalist living in Maryland, became the first Eritrean reporter ever arrested for doing his job. “I was arrested right after I interviewed the U.S. ambassador to Eritrea," Yohannes said. "I was accused of being a CIA spy. From my colleagues who were there with me, one is in jail. We don’t know if the other is still alive." Yohannes spoke at the second edition of ”Truth Teller,” a…
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EU Parliament President Stresses Need For Transatlantic Cooperation
European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek called for an increase in direct contacts between the U.S. Congress and its European counterpart at an April 27 Newsmaker. “We want to build a much closer Transatlantic legislative partnership between the European Parliament and U.S. Congress," Buzek said. "After the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, we need to create common EU-U.S. working groups.” Buzek said the new European structure based on the Lisbon Treaty puts the Eureopean Parliament in a stronger position. Responding to recent criticism of the European system, he highlighted the…
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Theodore's of Georgetown Sponsors 5K
Theodore's of Georgetown has been added to the growing list of sponsors of the NPC Beat the Deadline 5K. 5K Chairwoman Jessica Brady says Theodore's donation means "we're getting closer to our fund-raising goal, but we're not there yet." The July 17 race raises money for the training programs and scholarships provided through the Club's non-profit arm., the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library. To become a sponsor, please email committee Brady at [email protected].
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Actor seeks media aid in sounding alert for health care safety
Watching his newborn twins hang in the balance between life and death for 41 hours, actor Dennis Quaid realized he'd found a new role to play - front man for the reform of health care safety. Calling health care accidents one of the leading causes of death in America, he implored the news media in the National Press Club audience April 12 to “help us tell, not just the stories of harm, but of great caregivers dedicated to safe, high-performance care.” In Washington to announce the release of a new patient-safety manual, the 56-year-old star described the desperate moments that followed…
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Napolitano says global aviation reform crucial to thwart terrorism
Reforming global aviation security is a clear and vital step in securing the United States against terrorism, according to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Her declaration comes in the wake of the Christmas 2009 incident in which a Nigerian attempted to blow up an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight. Since the incident, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has participated in aviation security summits in Spain, Mexico, Tokyo and Nigeria. The summits produced consensus for security agreements, Napolitano said at an April 15 luncheon at the National Press Club. An upcoming meeting will…
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Murdoch sees iPad as future of newspapers
As the Wall Street Journal’s iPad app appeared on the screen behind him, News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch told a packed ballroom audience that the technology could mean “the saving of newspapers.” “I got a glimpse of the future this weekend with the introduction of the iPad,” said Murdoch, one of the nation’s leading news entrepreneurs whose holdings include the Wall Street Journal and the Fox Broadcasting Co. “It has brought together all forms of media.” In an April 6 interview on “The Kalb Report,” Murdoch showed how users of the Apple device could see the printed version of the…
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