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'The Daily Show' co-creator Winstead tells Book Rap how her dad’s death inspired book
Lizz Winstead, co-creator and former head of TV’s “The Daily Show,” looked at her life after her father died in 2008, found “big holes” in her career, and decided to write a book about it, she told a National Press Club Book Rap June 14. The book, “Lizz Free or Die,” describes how she found her comedic voice and persevered, she said. “Don’t quit too soon,” she advised the audience, pointing out that talent lasts a lifetime and outlets to demonstrate it will arise in unexpected ways. Also a founder of Air America Radio and a comedian who frequently appears on MSNBC, CNN and Comedy Central,…
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Politico, Economist reporters forecast close election in uncertain economy
Ben White, Wall Street correspondent for Politico, said he expects a "grinding recovery" that would give President Barack Obama a slight edge over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the fall elections. White, speaking at a June 12 National Press Club event on the economy and the election, defined the recovery as 100,000 to 200,000 jobs added each month and an unemployment rate staying around 8.1 percent. If the economy worsens, the edge would go to Romney, White said. White was part of a three-person panel that was the first in a series of discussions on the election sponsored by…
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Artistic haven in early 70s L.A. changed American culture
On a fateful drive home from a political fundraiser at Norman Lear’s house, Ronald Brownstein contemplated the famed producer’s groundbreaking television series "All in the Family," he recalled at a May 20 National Press Club Virtual Book Event. Other Lear series followed: "Maude," "The Jeffersons," and "Sanford and Son," among others. Brownstein, a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a senior editor at the Atlantic, and a senior political analyst for CNN, realized that the early seventies also saw the release of trailblazing films such as "Chinatown," "The Godfather," "The Graduate"…
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Cross-country bike trek helps reporter tell story of beating cancer
"You couldn't have just thrown a party?" That's what a friend of Elizabeth McGowan said of her decision to bike from the Pacific to the Atlantic in the wake of successful cancer treatment in 2000. McGowan's new book, "Outpedaling 'The Big C': My Healing Cycle Across America," was the subject of a National Press Club Virtual Headliners Book Event on Wednesday, May 19. Diagnosed with melanoma in her 20s, the same cancer that claimed her father at age 44 when she was in high school, McGowan quit her newspaper job to do more living. "I thought that was my fate, I'm not going to make it beyond age…
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Indianapolis Colts spearhead mental health solutions campaign
Professional athletes, including NFL stars, are used to "playing hurt" and learn to "just push through it," but for mental health problems, that's not the way to go, Indianapolis Colts linebacker Zaire Franklin told a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker audience Tuesday, May 18. Franklin joined Colts owner and chief executive Jim Irsay and Irsay's daughter, team vice chairman and owner Kalen Jackson, in promoting the team's "Kicking the Stigma" campaign to encourage people to get help with depression and other mental illnesses. The discussion, which was moderated by Club President Lisa…
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Jackson’s story highlights America's history of racial divisions, NPR host tells Book Rap
The story that National Public Radio host Steve Inskeep writes in Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross and a Great American Land Grab has many similarities to today, Inskeep told a National Press Club Book Rap May 28. “You are talking about Congress and the Supreme Court. You are talking about lobbyists in Washington and the Religious Right and different racial minorities, and you are talking about a changing country,” he said. The award-winning “York Project” that Inskeep produced with his colleague Michele Norris indirectly led him to write about the events…
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National Press Club Statement On Shooting of Journalist Charnice Milton
Following is a statement by John Hughes, President of the National Press Club on the shooting death yesterday of Charnice Milton, a reporter for Capital Community News. "It was with great sadness that we read of the shooting death of Charnice Milton, a reporter for Capital Community News working in the District. Ms. Milton was shot at 9:40 p.m. Wednesday while at a bus stop at Good Hope Road and Alabama Avenue. She was reportedly coming from covering a Community Advisory Committee meeting. She was heading home and changing buses when she was struck by a bullet and killed. Police have said she…
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Garrison Keillor proposes 15 things to make America a better place
Humorist and best-selling author Garrison Keillor, making his first appearance at the Club since 1994, delivered a speech titled “15 things that need to change right away.” In prefacing the speech, Keillor expressed regret that in his 40 years of hosting the “A Prairie Home Companion” radio program listeners had come away remembering nothing in particular that he had said. In his May 22 luncheon address, the 72-year-old Minnesota native said he wanted to present the Club audience with specific messages, whereby a level of discussion might ensue. The syndicated radio show host touched upon…
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Peter Yarrow and Bernie Williams talk about need for music education at Newsmaker
Folk legend Peter Yarrow and former New York Yankees centerfielder Bernie Williams joined a May 19 Club Newsmaker panel to talk about the need for music education in elementary andf secondary schools. A survey found 77 percent of teachers and 64 percent of parents saying that music is very important, and more than three-quarters of teachers saying that music positively affects students who take music education, said Peter Grunwald, an education researcher and president of Grunwald Associates LLC. “What struck us about the findings, overall, is that the teachers and parents consistently told…
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Claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was CIA failure, former deputy director says
The claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was one of the Central Intelligence Agency’s biggest failures of the last 20 years, former deputy director Michael Morell said at a Newsmaker May 18. Morell said that most of the world’s intelligence agencies made the same mistake. Morell talked about the CIA’s successes and failures, which are discussed in his new book, “The Great Was of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism‑‑‑From al Qaida to ISIS.” Morell’s presentation focused primarily on the Middle East, particularly Iraq and Syria. The ability of the CIA to stop attacks on the…
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