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Please Welcome 48 New Club Members
The Board of Governors approved 48 member applications Oct. 19, bringing the total so far this year to 345, compared to 368 for the same period last year.The new members are: ActiveGary Gentile – Platts, Sr. Writer; Carlos G. Hamann - Agence France-Presse, Editor/Reporter; Dana Milbank - Washington Post, Columnist; Michele Salcedo - The Associated Press, Newsperson; Andrea Shalal-Esa – Reuters, Correspondent; Kyung Song - The Seattle Times, Reporter; Cynthia A. Tucker - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Columnist Active Non-ResidentEmmanuel Earl Ankrah - Ghana Broadcasting Corporation,…
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Prof Outlines Sports Stats to Illuminate Players, Teams
When fans read an account of their favorite football team’s game in stories in the morning paper or on the Web, a three-yard plunge by the star fullback is recorded as three yards, whether the play gains a first down or falls far short of the marker. But those two results vary in their impact on the game, and that difference should be reflected in the statistics that journalists use to describe the contest, according to an academician who spoke at an Oct. 20 Newsmaker. Wayne Winston advocates a more rigorous approach to evaluating players and teams in football, basketball and baseball. He…
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Human Rights Advocates Call for Guantanamo Accountability
Human rights advocates, lawyers and Common Cause said the United States violated Geneva Conventions in treatment and interrogation of detainees in Iraq and at a military detention facility in Cuba and that former Vice President Richard Cheney should answer for the abuses at an Oct. 16 Newsmaker. Emmet Bondurant, the attorney representing Mohammed Al Ansi, Scott Horton, Columbia Law School lecturer, Ellen Massimino, CEO and executive director of Human Rights First, and former Rep. Bob Edgar, president and CEO of Common Cause, explored prisoner abuse, military commissions trying detainees,…
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Hip-hop Star Says Giving Back is Duty of Celebs
Celebrities have a duty to giveback to society and use philanthropy as a tool for change, hip-hop star and actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges said Oct. 23. “I feel like every celebrity, even if they don’t realize it, they have great responsibility and great influence. With great power comes great responsibility,” the 32-year-old Grammy winner said. Bridges, who has sold 24 million records worldwide, put music aside to talk about leadership and charity at a National Press Club luncheon. “There are calls for everyday people to take leadership roles in philanthropy in order to help the communities…
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Chinese Shipping CEO Sees Expanded U.S.-China Trade, Economic Recovery
Even though trade between the United States and China already has grown 130 times since the two countries established diplomatic relations 30 years ago, “the golden age is ahead of us” said Capt. Wei Jiafu, president and CEO of the Chinese Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO), at an NPC Luncheon Oct. 26. “Welcome to China,” said Wei in an appeal to U.S. companies to do business with his country. Visiting Washington as leader of a delegation of Chinese service-sector companies in his role as president of the Chinese Association of Trade in Service, he predicted that American firms “will have more…
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Renewable Experts Detail Need for Energy Storage
Grid and power experts said compressed air storage for renewable energy is essential as wind, solar and other renewable resources begin to play a more significant role in the US power generation mix. At an Oct. 27 Newsmaker, PJM CEO Terry Boston, Electric Power Research Institute researcher Robert Schainker and Energy Storage and Power CEO Stephen Byrd addressed the potential of energy technology to counteract the intermittency of renewables and called for additional incentives to prime the market. The event occurred after President Obama announced a $3.4 billion electricity grid improvement…
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Documentary Shines Light on Black Soldiers in WWII
African-Americans soldiers in WWII have been "largely been edited out of history … and I was interested in discussing the plight of these soldiers,” documentary producer Gregory Cooke told an Oct. 29 newsmaker where clips of "Choc’late Soldiers from the USA" were shown. “When the story of a group of people is left out of American history, then we are all impoverished by its absence,” director Noel "Sonny" Izon said. “This story is about choices," Izon said. "They embraced the choice to serve their country at a time when they were subjected to mistreatment. They choose to return home to…
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Club Speaks Up for Illinois Journalists
The National Press Club strongly objects to the Cook County, Ill., prosecutor's use of subpoena power to obtain personal information, such as grades and evaluations, and investigative records, such as off-the-record interviews, from student journalists at Northwestern University. The journalists at Northwestern's Medill Innocence Project reported and researched the conviction of Anthony McKinney for the slaying of a security guard in 1978. Their reporting revealed new evidence that the student journalists say points to McKinney's innocence. "The Cook County prosecutor's efforts are…
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Pension Fund Head Advocates Stronger Regulation, Change in Corporate Governance
Joseph Dear, chief investment officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), listed the three critical aspects of financial reform - s trengthening and reinvigorating existing regulations, closing gaps in regulation and improving corporate governance – at a Newsmaker Nov. 3. He particularly favored a bill coming before the House Financial Services Committee Nov. 4 that would provide shareholders access to proxy ballots for boards of directors. He called this measure the most important in the tool kit to improve corporate governance. The speaker began with a personal…
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Former Afghan Parliament Member Calls for US Troop Withdrawal
American troops in Afghanistan are war criminals and should leave the country, Malalai Joya, a member of the Afghan parliament, said at the Club Nov. 2. The event, sponsored by the International Correspondents Committee, introduced her political memoir, "A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan who Dared to Raise her Voice." Joya‘s fellow members of parliament voted to suspend her from serving her term following charges that she insulted them. She called American forces in Afghanistan “war criminals” and termed them an occupation force that killed innocent civilians. She…
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