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At NPC Book Rap Gregory Feifer explains why majority of Russians still support Putin
Former NPR Moscow correspondent, Gregory Feifer, explained what it is in the nature of the Russian people that keeps President Vladimir Putin in popularity even though his government is widening the gap between the super-rich and the great majority of the poor. Feifer said that even though Moscow is now a rich city, the rest of the countryside is dying off from alcoholism, AIDS, and poverty just 50 miles outside of it. One third of the Russian villages have fewer than thirty people. Feifer pointed out that Russian behavior is influenced by the country's characteristic large land mass made up…
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Panel: Media organizations must focus on creating, hiring more female leaders
Top editors addressed the barriers women face in achieving leadership positions in journalism and how to overcome them at a panel discussion Monday at the National Press Club co-sponsored by the National Press Club Journalism Institute and The Poynter Institute. Women account for more than a third of women in journalism, but less than a quarter hold leadership roles, the Poynter Institute's Jill Geisler told the group. Geisler, who moderated the event, said the data for the Women's Media Center also shows that women in leadership earn 25% less than their male counterparts. “Only four women…
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Dingell: 'Compromise is not a dirty word'
The longest serving member of the House of Representatives told a National Press Club luncheon audience on June 27 that the meaning of the word "Congress" captures what the body is meant to do -- and has done during less partisan times. “I often remind my colleagues of the very definition of the word Congress,” said Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. “It means coming together. It means a body which has come together and it is a part of the historic understandings that this country had when we had a Congress which worked.” Dingell announced earlier this year that he would not seek re-election. He was…
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Author says New York Times lacks strategy for digital age
Nikki Usher, author of "Making News at The New York Times," told a National Press Club audience June 25 that the newspaper lacks a strategy for the digital age. Her book is based on five months she spent in the newsroom between January and June 2010, when she had unfettered access to meetings and reporters as they worked. An internal report leaked a few weeks ago said the Times is stuck in print. "That is largely what I found, " said Usher, an assistant professor in the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs. In the Times' culture, a group of 12 men and seven women…
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Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Mother Jones top award winners in National Press Club journalism contest
The Wall Street Journal won three awards, while USA Today and Mother Jones won a couple each in the 2014 National Press Club Journalism contest. Molly Ball of The Atlantic won the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis for her coverage of the divided Republican Party after the 2012 election. The Wall Street Journal won the Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award for its detailed look at lobotomies. The Washington Post won the Breaking News-Print award for its coverage of the Navy Yard mass shootings. Among broadcast entries, KNTV of San Francisco won the Consumer Journalism-Broadcast…
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Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry talks about his mistakes, accomplishments at Book Rap
Four-term Washington, D.C., mayor Marion Barry Jr. told a packed and highly emotional room at a June 19 National Press Club Book Rap that his new book, "Mayor for Life," was meant to tell “who he was” and give a fuller portrayal of himself beyond a well-publicized drug controversy. He emphasized that an incident of drug use at the Vista Hotel was just a “sliver” of his life that happened 24 years ago. He said that he had admitted to it and asked for forgiveness from his wife as well as the community. He praised America as a great country that gives people second and third chances. The reason…
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Best-selling author Diana Gabaldon recounts launch of career
Best-selling author Diana Gabaldon told an audience in a packed National Press Club ballroom at a June 18 Book Rap that she had no idea what it took to become a novelist, so she wrote her first book to find out. Her latest novel, "Written in My Own Heart's Blood," debuted at the top of the sales rankings, which contributed to the big crowd that filled the ballroom, including the balcony. The overflow spilled into the Holeman Lounge to watch the event on a closed-circuit broadcast. On a hot and humid evening, hundreds of fans lined up 14th St. and snaked around the corner down F Street waiting…
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Drone advocates urge FAA regulations, fly drone in Club lobby
The lack of Federal Aviation Administration regulations is hampering the use of drones in photography, missing person searches, environmental monitoring, law enforcement and other activities, advocates said at a National Press Club Newsmaker event on June 18. After the press conference, a commercial photographer and drone pilot, Parker Gyokeres, flew a helicopter-like drone approximately two feet in diameter in a cleared area of the Club lobby. The drone rose vertically to a height above the top of the flags and then descended. Attorney Brendan Schulman described the case he filed on behalf…
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Portman, Van Hollen agree Iraq could break budget
Two leading lawmakers on fiscal issues agreed that military action in Iraq could force Congress to break its current budget agreement at a National Press Club Newsmakers press conference on June 17. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, a member of the Senate Finance and Budget committees and a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., ranking member of the House Budget Committee, both said the government is not likely to shutdown in August or September when the next debt ceiling is reached, thanks to the budget deal reached last year between Rep. Paul Ryan…
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World Cup viewing draws international crowd to Club
When the United States jumped out to an early lead and then overcame a late comeback by Ghana in the opening World Cup contest for both countries on June 16, the guests of honor at the National Press Club viewing were equally happy at each match development. “I’m between two worlds. I have to be neutral,” said King Peggy Bartels of Otuam, Ghana, a naturalized U.S. citizen who also serves as the leader of village in Ghana, as she watched the game in the First Amendment Lounge. King Peggy was among more than 100 spectators who packed the Club to enjoy the game and a buffet of Brazilian street…
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