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Belarus opposition leader explains country's 'transition between autocracy and democracy'
Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya told a National Press Club audience Tuesday that her country will become “a success story” and is “a present example of the transition between autocracy and democracy.” Her first visit to the United States came amid continuing unrest in Belarus and ongoing attacks on the media. in his introduction of Tikhanovskaya, former Club President Myron Belkind said evidence indicates that she won an overwhelming majority of the popular vote last August to unseat incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994. Lukashenko claims…
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Club to require masks under D.C. government order. Here's what it means.
The National Press Club will comply with District Mayor Muriel Bowser’s order on mask-wearing indoors beginning Saturday, July 31. The rule change follows new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and the District’s rising COVID-19 rates that now are in the substantial range. While this is a major inconvenience to members who were just getting used to being unmasked indoors, it is a direct result of the delta variant, which is not behaving like the other variants or the original COVID-19 virus. National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews explains how the Club is…
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Filmmakers Ken Burns and colleagues recall Muhammad Ali as 'prophet of love' ahead of documentary release
National Press Club President Lisa Matthews (top) introduces Ken Burns (lower left) and Sarah Burns and David McMahon (bottom L to R), filmmakers of the new PBS documentary on Muhammad Ali, at a Club Headliners virtual event Monday. Photo: Alan Kotok A new documentary shows the late legendary boxer Muhammad Ali as a “prophet of love” through a trove of footage, filmmaker Ken Burns said at a National Press Club virtual Headliners event on Monday. Ali is the subject of the four-part documentary by Burns and his co-filmmakers, Sarah Burns and David McMahon, who also spoke at the event. To be…
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Unless U.S. Air Force modernizes, China will become dominant global power, chief of staff warns
The U.S. Air Force must take Immediate measures to accelerate its modernization to prevent China from overtaking the United States as the dominate global power, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr. said at an in-person National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event Aug. 6. “Without change we are at risk of losing – risk of losing our competitive advantage in a highly contested environment, risk of losing our credibility with our joint teammates and our allies and partners, risk of losing quality airmen and our families – but most importantly, risk of losing our ability to…
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As news consumption tastes evolve, so does CBS News Radio, its leader tells Club meeting
While the core business of CBS News Radio "is delivering breaking news," the "attrition of audience" using radio to receive news has driven CBS correspondents to use their talent as storytellers to branch into new technologies including the production of podcasts, CBS Audio Network Vice President and General Manager Craig Swagler told an Aug. 5 meeting of the National Press Club Broadcast-Podcast team. Today's listeners are "looking to be entertained," they want to feel they are "pulling up a chair and listening to a discussion," Swagler explained. It is a way of delivering information, but "…
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National Press Club moves Freedom Clock to 14th Street to share Austin Tice’s story with public
The Freedom Clock tracking the captivity of award-winning journalist Austin Tice digitally struck nine years at noon on Saturday. The National Press Club, which set up the clock in its lobby last summer, moved it Saturday to the 14th Street sidewalk in front of the Club entrance to raise public awareness about Tice’s plight. The National Press Club moved the Freedom Clock to the 14th Street sidewalk on Saturday to raise public awareness about the plight of Austin Tice, a journalist detained in Syria since 2012. Photo: Jerome King “There’s a lot of activity around Austin’s safe return, but…
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CSIS analyst talks Afghanistan and great-power rivalry on Update-1 podcast
How reliable was the intelligence the United States received as it planned its withdrawal from Afghanistan? And what is the future of that country after the U.S. and its allies pull out? Those are some of the issues covered in the latest edition of Update-1. Broadcast/Podcast Committee member Irv Chapman talks with Emily Harding, deputy director and senior fellow with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Along with analyzing the Biden administration's exit strategy and the collapse of the Afghan government, Harding discusses the…
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Journalists detail persecution of Latin American reporters
Journalism is not a crime. That theme echoed through a panel discussion Tuesday at the National Press Club as Latin American journalists called attention to government repression of reporting in their countries. In the past 20 months, at least 27 journalists have been killed in Latin America, said panel moderator Dagmar Thiel, chief executive of Fundamedios, an organization that promotes free expression and human rights. Many more have been threatened, attacked or jailed for reporting not in line with their governments' policies. The National Press Club's Press Freedom Team brought…
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Teamsters presidential candidates spar over direction of union
Two experienced candidates for Teamsters general president traded lively barbs in a spirited debate at the National Press Club Wednesday over which one can best lead their union’s 1.4 million members after the current long-time president, James P. Hoffa, steps down in March. Vying to lead the union in the post-Hoffa era are Steve Vairma, international vice president at-large, who heads the Teamsters Power slate, and Sean M. O'Brien, international vice president-east, who represents the Teamsters United slate. Candidates for Teamsters Union president -- Steve Vairma (l) and Sean O'Brien (r…
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Afghanistan war reporters hope for more moderate Taliban, fear return of repression following U.S. withdrawal
Afghanistan war correspondents said the country is different from the one the United States and its allies invaded in 2001 but expressed concern about repressive Taliban rule now that it is back in control. Following the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan had a free media, said Saad Mohseni CEO of the Moby Group, which runs Afghanistan’s first 24/7 news and television network. But he does not believe it will stay that way once the group consolidates power. "For us this is the calm before the storm," Mohseni said at a Sept. 3 National Press Club Headliners event. "There’s little doubt that will…
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