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Club Owls award Order of the Owl to Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles at Spring Hoot
Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles outlined the keys to success in his part of the journalism field at the National Press Club Owls' Spring Hoot on May 1. Toles was awarded the Order of the Owl by the Club's Silver Owls, who are Club members who have been in the organization for 25 years or more in a row, at an event in the Club ballroom. Later in the evening, Toles and his band, Suspicious Package, performed. The hirsute lampooner gave his remarks following his award and the induction of new Owl members. During his remarks, Toles graphically outlined five rules of attaining…
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Book Rap tells tales of Ghost Army
A "Ghost Army" saved thousands of lives during World War II unbeknownst to other U.S. troops, historian Rick Beyer and artist Elizabeth Sayles told a Book Rap April 29. The ghost army actually consisted of the 1,100 men of the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, who created a false army of about 20,000 men to fool the Germans. Beyer said they were "putting on a show for the Germans." It was a dangerous job as the troops had to set up only a quarter of a mile from the enemy. Three men were killed and 21 wounded. The troops also had to endure the worst winter in 100 years in 1944. They saved…
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Wife of imprisoned former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed urges his release
The wife and human rights lawyers of imprisoned former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed urged his release at an April 30 Newsmaker, charging that his trial and imprisonment violated basic human rights and legal principles. In 2008 Nasheed became the first democratically elected president of the Maldives, an multi-island country southwest of India in the Indian Ocean. Nasheed left office in 2012 under what supporters said was a coup. The following year, he won a plurality of the vote but the Maldives supreme court annulled the results, returning to power the same family that had ruled for…
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Navy secretary Mabus tells Club Luncheon that U.S. is reversing ship decline
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told a Club Luncheon audience April 30 that the government is reserving a decline in the number of ships but will have to find money to maintain the nation's ballistic submarine force. A former governor of Mississippi, home to one of the country's major shipbuilding facilities, Mabus predicted that the Navy will remain in the forefront to technical innovation to help maintain freedom of the seas for the U.S. and all of the world's trading nations. He said that 90 percent of the world's trade relies on shipments by sea and that the U.S. can respond to efforts to…
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Former Bush aide Dana Perino talks about time in the White House and finding love later
Since during election years the media’s focus shifts from the White House to the presidential campaigns, President George W. Bush’s former press secretary said that if the administration was on the front page, she was doing “something drastically wrong.” Dana Perino, who currently hosts “The Five” on Fox News Channel, told a Club Book Rap April 24 that she hopes President Obama follows this formula as he nears the end of his term.. Perino’s book, "And the Good News Is: Lessons and Advice from the Bright Side," doesn't reveal the White House inner-workings like other books by former…
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Freelancers tell tales of high danger and low pay at Club conference
Freelancers and groups supporting them told a Club audience Thursday of the dangers and lack of preparation in their international reporting, often at low pay. The morning-long conference, "Freelancers at Risk: Photojournalism and the Call for Global Safety Practices," was sponsored by the Club's Journalism Institute along with the Investigative Reporting Workshop and the Committee to Protect journalists. One of the guests was Diane Foley, whose son, freelance journalist James Foley, was captured while covering the Syria civil war and beheaded last August. The participants said little about…
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Video games are learning tools, according to a Club Newsmaker event
Highly sophisticated video games based on educational research, closely tied to curriculum and supported by federal funding are significantly changing the way millions of students learn, according to education experts who addressed a Club Newsmaker on April 16. Greg Toppo, national education eeporter for USA Today and author of a new book, “The Game Believes in You, How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter,” called these games “hard fun.” Toppo said he chose to devote his first book to this topic because these games combine academic rigor and experiential learning in a way that appeals to…
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U.S, lawmaker calls for legalizing medical marijuana
Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) called for the federal legalization of therapeutic hemp and cannabidol at a federal level at a Club Newsmaker event April 22. Perry said this would provide access to the drug, which he said could reduce the duration and length of seizures in children and adults with epilepsy and other related disorders. He said his proposed bill “in no way federally legalizes or allows for the recreational use of marijuana.” His bill, Charlotte’s Web Medical Hemp Act, is named after Charlotte Figi, a young girl who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy. Her mother, Paige Figi, is the…
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At Book Rap, Paulson urges Congress to pass fast-track trade legislaton
Congress should pass fast-track trade legislation, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told a Club Book Rap April 17. Also known as trade promotion authority, the legislation would allow the president to negotiate trade deals that are submitted to Congress for an up-or-down vote without amendments. “Trade promotion authority, I think, is essential to get a trade deal done,” Paulson said. “We won’t be able to negotiate the best possible trade deal, if we can negotiate any deal at all, if the president doesn’t have that because otherwise how would the other side know it was a real…
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UN chief calls for ceasefire in Yemen, announces trip to Vatican
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for a ceasefire in Yemen Thursday night in an address to the National Press Club and announced he will go to the Vatican this month to further his long concern about climate change and the environment. Yemen and climate change were only two of the world's hot spots Ban said had led a colleague to remark that "never had he seen a period like this one at once." "Yemen is in flames," he said, adding that an "astounding" one-third of the fighters there are children."That is why I am calling for an immediate ceasefire... The diplomatic process is the best…
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