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Cardinal Wilton Gregory urges ‘respectful dialogue,’ inclusion at Club Headliner
Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the highest ranking Black American cleric in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, called for more “civility and respectful dialogue” nationwide Wednesday, Sept. 8, at the National Press Club’s first in-person Headliner luncheon since March 2020. Elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Francis on Nov. 28, Gregory urged greater inclusion of gay and divorced people, and more representation of people of color in the church hierarchy. He answered questions from National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews as well as from the live and virtual audience. One…
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Homeland Security targets emerging domestic terror threat
America is more secure two decades after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at a National Press Club in-person Headliner event on Thursday, Sept. 9. “We are safer because we have built an entire architecture of security,” Mayorkas told Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews, who moderated the event. “We have built the capability to screen and vet travelers coming to the United States. We have offices, agencies and processes that are focused on our nation’s security and we have extraordinary…
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Marshall Project to receive NPCJI Sheehan Award for investigative journalism
The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, will receive the National Press Club Journalism Institute’s 2021 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism. The Institute will confer the award Oct. 20 during the virtual portion of its annual Fourth Estate Award Gala. This virtual celebration also will recognize the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award honorees: Haze Fan, a Chinese citizen who has been detained in Beijing while working for Bloomberg, and Danny Fenster, the managing editor of Frontier Myanmar who has been jailed in…
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Edward R. Murrow’s son describes artifacts donated to Club
An ordinary tan briefcase common to mid-20th century businessmen took on extraordinary meaning as Casey Murrow described how his father, the legendary CBS News correspondent Edward R. Murrow, had used it. “The briefcase my dad carried for a number of years actually went around the world with us,” Murrow, joined by his daughter, Jenna, told National Press Club members Tuesday as they gathered with Club members in the room named for the globe-trotting newsman. The Murrow family has donated a number of Edward R. Murrow's personal items now on display at the Club. Edward R. Murrow's…
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Rep. Castro urges more Latinos in media, prescribes Congressional action if needed
Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews interviews Rep. Joaquin Castro. Photo: Alan Kotok Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, said production tax credits given to film makers should be reconsidered if Latinos continue to remain underrepresented in the industry at a Sept. 21 National Press Club Newsmaker event. His comments came in the wake of a report by the Government Accountability Office that found that Latinos account for about 12 % of the media industry’s employees, despite accounting for 19 % of the US population. And within the media industry, Latinos are overrepresented in lower paying…
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Kalb Report explores getting back to basic truths in journalism
In the 27th season opener of The Kalb Report, moderator Marvin Kalb asked his guests to explore where the nation stands in discerning what is truth, and whether the proliferation of falsehoods on social media is undermining democracy.
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National Press Club, Journalism Institute name three scholarship winners
Three journalism students are making their own headlines as winners of 2021 National Press Club scholarships and awards, announced Sept. 27, 2021: Kaleb Anderson of Washington, D.C., was recognized with the 2021 Julie Schoo Scholarship for Diversity in Journalism totaling as much as $20,000 over four years. The graduate of Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington impressed judges with the maturity of his writing covering the Black Lives Matter movement over the last year. Anderson, who is studying journalism at the University of Missouri, said he wants to be a “storyteller” in…
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Update-1 highlights NPC annual photo exhibit on display through Sept. 30
“Kamala at the Camps,” photo by Aretha Williams The National Press Club’s 22nd annual photo exhibit is on display in the Club’s lobby and virtually. In the latest edition of Update-1, Broadcast/Podcast co-vice chair Adam Konowe spoke with photo team co-chair Alan Kotok about the exhibit in a time of ongoing pandemic and social unrest. Konowe also interviewed two photographers whose work is part of this year’s exhibit. Arizona-based new member Ben Sarao submitted four panoramic nature images, while the work of long-standing member Aretha Williams from Washington D.C. mostly benefited from…
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'Trump's movement continues,' his rallies bear watching, says 'Peril' co-author Robert Costa
National Press Club Secretary Emily Wilkins introduces Robert Costa, Washington Post political reporter and co-author with Bob Woodward of the new book "Peril," at an Oct. 4 Club Headliners Book Event. Photo: Alan Kotok Robert Costa remarked to a National Press Club audience Monday that he keeps an "assume nothing" card over his desk, and then told his listeners how that has worked out in his understanding and coverage of politicians ranging from Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump and Joe Biden -- and even Mike Pence. Costa is co-author, along with Bob Woodward, of "Peril," the best-selling…
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COVID pandemic exposes worker inequality, says AFL-CIO president
The coronavirus pandemic is showing how inequitable the current labor system is, and workers are right to advocate for better working conditions, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said during a Headliners Newsmaker event at the National Press Club on Wednesday. Shuler said COVID-19 has made the public realize the lack of safe, well-paid jobs, even though millions were called “essential workers” yet faced with stagnant wages, inadequate benefits and a lack of health protections while working during the worst of the pandemic. AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler (right) makes a point to National Press…
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