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Club Member Amanpour Takes Helm of ABC's 'This Week'
CNN chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour will take over as anchor of ABC's Sunday morning politics and policy talk show, "This Week" in August. Amanpour received the 2008 Fourth Estate Award, the Club's highest honor. Amanpour, one of the country's most respected international correspondents, will also appear on other ABC News programs and platforms to provide international analysis of the important issues of the day, ABC News said in its announcement. She will anchor primetime documentaries on international subjects for ABC. Amanpour's speech at the 2008 Fourth Estate Award…
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Club Applauds Senators for Bill to Improve FOIA
The National Press Club lauded a bill soon to be introduced in the Senate that aims to speed up the processing of public requests for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. Two senators who have long championed press freedom and open government legislation, Democrat Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont and Republican John Cornyn of Texas, unveiled the Faster FOIA Act. The measure would set up an advisory commission that would make recommendations to Congress on ways to expedite the process of obtaining information from U.S. agencies. “Freedom of information isn’t free if it costs you years…
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Romney soars in NH poll after Iowa Caucus win
Mitt Romney’s thin win in the Jan. 3 Iowa Republican primary bounced him to 38% in a Jan. 4 New Hampshire poll, seven points above his New Year’s Day standing there, pollster John Zogby said at a Jan. 5 Newsmaker. Rick Santorum gained four points to 11% while Ron Paul dropped one to 24% in the poll of 498 voters definitely or likely to vote in the New Hampshire Republican primary Jan. 10. JZ Analytics produced the poll, which has a margin of error of 4.5%, for the Washington Times. Newt Gingrich fell six points to 9% and Jon Huntsman sank 4 points to 8%. Michelle Bachman dropped four points…
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Cypriot Foreign Minister: Reunification would help region
Cyprus under total Cypriot rule would improve security, stability and cooperation in the southeast Mediterranean, Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, the country's foreign minister, said at a Dec. 21 Newsmaker press conference. Cyprus has been divided since l974 when Turkey invaded the northern part of the island nation. Turkish troops remain there. Kozakou-Marcoullis, a former ambassador to the U.S., said Turkey has threatened to mobilize its Navy if Cyprus attempts to extract natural gas from an undersea zone known as Aphrodite. Drilling began in September without incident.
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Larrabee, Priebe win top awards, Club honors 70 volunteers with Vivians
Former National Press Club President Don Larrabee won the John Cosgrove Award, and Lou Priebe received the Berny Krug Award for outstanding contributions to the Club, at a ceremony Dec. 16 recognizing the top volunteers of 2011. The event in the Holeman Lounge honored 70 Club members with Vivian Awards for their accomplishments on the Club’s 27 committees. Larrabee, who served as Club president in 1973, is best known for establishing the Club’s Fourth Estate Award, which honors a journalist each year for lifetime achievement. The founder of the Griffin-Larrabee Bureau that provided Washington…
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Solar leaders advocate extension of cash grants
Leaders from solar energy companies advocated extension of a cash grant program for renewable energy projects that is scheduled to expire at year end during a Dec. 14 Newsmaker. The program, formally known as Section 1603, provides cash grants to renewable energy initiatives in lieu of tax credits. The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) predicts that 37,000 jobs would be created from a one-year extension of the program. SEIA estimates that 100,000 people work in the solar industry, which grew 69 percent over the past year. "Section 1603 is a solar success story," said Tony Clifford,…
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Cantore says better forecasts, planning ease pain of year’s terrible weather
In his a quarter century of covering weather, Jim Cantore's 2011 storm chasing stands out. He has “never seen a year like the one we’ve just had. Everywhere you looked there were [weather] extremes,” Cantore, on-camera meteorologist for the Weather Channel, told a National Press Club luncheon on Dec. 14. Twelve “billion dollar” weather disasters have hit the U.S. this year, topping the previous high of nine in 2008. “Every possible ingredient came together” to generate tornadoes, floods, heat waves, droughts and Hurricane Irene, which caused record flooding in New England, Cantore said. Six…
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Vicious hound hooks Dirda on Holmes stories
The author of a new book about the creator of the mystery hero Sherlock Holmes became hooked on the detective series by furtively reading one of the scariest novels in the collection, "The Hound of the Baskervilles." “The moment had to be right," said Michael Dirda, author of "On Conan Doyle," at a National Press Club Book Rap on Dec. 12. "I waited until my sisters and parents went somewhere. It had to be a dark and stormy night. I settled in the recliner with a blanket and began to read.” In the book he remembers that Holmes had asked whether the footprints were a man or woman’s around a…
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Ben & Jerry promote economic parity as cure for social ills
Ice cream entrepreneurs Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield have made it big in business but are standing side-by-side with the Occupy Wall Street movement, they said at a Dec. 12 Newsmaker. “I have seen people who were committed, thoughtful, dedicated, people, people who played by the rules, who lost jobs, lost everything," Greenfield, co-founder with Cohen of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., said of the Occupy participants. "They had nothing to show for it except huge debt. We are operating in a system that is not working for people. The people at the top get all the opportunities.” Ben &…
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Theresa Werner becomes first broadcast freelancer elected Club president
Click here to view detailed election results Theresa M. Werner swept to victory in the National Press Club's 2011 election Friday, Dec. 9, becoming the first broadcast freelancer elected president of the Club and soundly defeating her two opponents in a hotly contested race to head the world’s leading professional organization for journalists. Werner, currently chairman of the Club’s Board of Governors, defeated Vice President Keith M. Hill and Young Members Chairman Tim Young for the Club’s top member position, garnering 264 votes to 61 votes and 55 votes for Hill and Young, respectively.…
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