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"It’s changed our jobs drastically” -- How MLB season is affecting baseball writers
To a sports writer, covering Major League Baseball during a pandemic-shortened season means fewer journalistic scoops, less access to players, and the fear that baseball writers roaming a clubhouse in search of stories may be a thing of the past. Paul Sullivan, the president of the Baseball Writers Association of America and an award-winning veteran reporter for the Chicago Tribune, shared his observations about this most unusual, late-starting 60-game season with National Press Club President Michael Freedman in an NPC Virtual Newsmaker event Tuesday. NPC President Michael Freedman…
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Kalb Report: Burns calls 2020 one of four great U.S. crises
The United States in 2020 finds itself in the midst one of the four great crises of its history, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told moderator Marvin Kalb July 27 in the first virtual “Kalb Report.” The triple threat of the coronavirus, the ensuing economic collapse, the racial reckoning of the Black Lives Matter movement, all overseen by ineffectual and counterproductive White House leadership, he said, has put the nation in a calamitous situation that ranks with the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II. “We find ourselves in a hell on Earth of our own making,” he said. “All of…
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Bass seeks Senate vote on House-passed police reform bill
In the wake of nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd while in police custody, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) wants to get the Senate to vote on House-approved police reform legislation. “We’re in a moment that I believe developed into a movement that started with police brutality…and has taken up bigger issues like systemic racism,” Bass said during a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker event on Thursday, July 16. Bass led the legislative process on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which culminated in House approval, 236-181, on June 25.…
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Holland puts 'narrative around' slaves in White House
Jesse Holland's 2016 book The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House grew in part out of his love of history. "I've always been a fan of history," Holland said at a virtual gathering of National Press Club members Wednesday evening, July 15. "History is always changing. We're always learning more about yesterday." The book was a follow up of his first non-fiction book, Black Men Built the Capitol: Discovering African-American History In and Around Washington, D.C. Holland, a longtime reporter with the Associated Press who now teaches at George Washington…
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Dallas Fed president: Containing COVID-19 critical to economic recovery
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert S. Kaplan said containing the coronavirus is the key to an economic recovery during an online National Press Club Newsmaker event Monday, July 13. "While fiscal and monetary policy have a key role to play…if all of us wore marks we would likely mute the transmission of this disease and that would translate into us growing faster," Kaplan said. "We would have higher GDP from here and a lower unemployment rate.” Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said an economic recovery depends on getting the coronavirus pandemic under control at a National Press…
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Swalwell doesn't regret House's impeachment vote, says Trump 'reaffirms' why it was needed
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Ca) makes a point at a National Press Club Book Event Thursday. Photo: Alan Kotok Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Ca), speaking at a National Press Club Book Event Thursday about his book "The End Game: Inside the Impeachment of Donald Trump," said that the only regret he has about impeachment is “we didn’t do enough to hold the administration accountable.” When asked by National Press Club President Michael Freedman whether the impeachment was “worth it“ given the president’s behavior since the acquittal, Swalwell replied, “Every single day, the president makes the impeachers…
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Barton Gellman says he knew he would be a target
Barton Gellman, speaking at a National Press Club virtual Book Rap on Wednesday about his book Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, said, “I knew there would be a target on my back” when discussing the security steps he took to protect the classified documents he received from Edward Snowden. Foreign governments would like to get a hold of those documents, he said. Asked how he came to write about Edward Snowden, Gellman replied that a woman he had helped with security on her files contacted him about a person who said he had classified documents from the National…
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Federal Reserve bank president advocates health, education, digital investments to boost post-COVID economy
Mary C. Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, advocated public investment in health, education and digital infrastructure, as well as emergency policies aimed at expanding employment, to boost an equitable economic recovery from COVID-19. "Three crises – health, economic and social – have converged to create one difficult moment in American history,” she said. The crises have hit disadvantaged groups - the disabled, people of color and those with the least education - disproportionately, she said during an online National Press Club Newsmaker Monday, June 15.…
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Rep. Swalwell to give inside account of the Trump impeachment at NPC Headliners Book Rap June 25
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-California) plans to discuss what it was like inside the investigation and impeachment of President Donald Trump and what he believes is at stake for the American people at a National Press Club Headliners Book Rap on Thursday, June 25 at 1 p.m. A live feed of the event will be available for all who wish to watch and participate virtually. Please click here to register for the online event. Swalwell, whose book Endgame: Inside the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump was released Tuesday, was elected to Congress in 2012 to represent the East Bay of California, near San…
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Panelists advocate safety in numbers, situational awareness for journalists in dangerous areas
Journalists must maintain situational awareness and should work in teams to keep safe in potentially dangerous situations, panelists at a June 28 workshop on safety for journalists said. The event was co-sponsored by the National Press Club’s Journalism Institute and the National Press Foundation. Chase Ford, senior instructor with Orbis Operations, who conducted a session on situational awareness, urged journalists to “pay attention to what is happening around you and get distance between you and that dangerous event.” Danny Spriggs, vice president of global security for AP, said “We…
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