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True crime genre TV producer briefs NPC team on the making of a successful show
Steve Katz is a "show runner." That doesn't sound like a typical job description you see on a newsroom org chart, but it's not much different from being an on-call foreign correspondent ready to coordinate coverage from anywhere at anytime. During a lunchtime meeting Oct. 7 of the National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast team, Katz detailed his move from broadcast news to "running" non-fiction TV projects -- mostly in the immensely popular true crime genre. The meeting day was coincidentally the same date as his first day at Fox News Channel 25 years earlier. He said there's only "a degree of…
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Club leaders raise glass to Nobel journalists at Taco Night
National Press Club leaders toasted journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for winning the Nobel Peace Prize at the Club’s Taco Night on Friday, Oct. 8. Ressa, chief executive of the investigative news site Rappler, and Muratov, editor-in-chief of the independent Russian newspaper Novaja Gazeta, were honored for their “courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia,” the Nobel Committee said in a statement. “At the same time, they are representatives of all journalists who stand up for this ideal in a world in which democracy and freedom of the press face…
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Fourth Estate honoree Holt challenges journalism to be 'pitch perfect'
The National Press Club presented its 2021 Fourth Estate Award to NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt Wednesday evening, honoring the broadcaster’s achievements over his four-decade career. Holt took the helm of NBC’s evening news program in 2015. The COVID-19 pandemic hit in his fifth year in the job, and it was a moment in which he excelled, Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews said. Calling Holt “a true pioneer in our profession and … the most-trusted anchor in America,” Matthews said the country has had a deeper connection to broadcast news over the last year, as Americans struggle to cope…
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Policy certainty, modernized electric grid needed for a renewables future, GE Renewable Energy CEO says
GE Renewable Energy CEO Jérôme Pécresse called for policy certainty and a modernized electric grid as countries transition toward greater reliance on renewable energy sources, during a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon Oct. 28. Pécresse’s address came after President Joe Biden unveiled a new version of his spending framework that looks to end the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels. Pécresse said that while investments in renewable energy like wind and solar will help in the long term, policy must also provide “short-term stability” to help ensure the supply chain and job market are not…
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NPC Elections postponed to Friday, Dec. 10
The annual Club elections have been postponed one day, to Friday, Dec. 10, and the deadline for petitioning to run for office has been extended to Monday, Nov. 8. The change in the Election Day schedule was made by the Board of Governors to continue the decades-long tradition of gathering in the Reliable Source on Taco Night, hear the election results and toast the newly elected president and Club leadership. In addition, the petitioning deadline was extended past Friday, Nov. 5, to the following Monday to give Club members more opportunities to gather the signatures, either in person or…
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VA Secretary tells Luncheon 'No veteran should be homeless'
Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough told a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon Tuesday that his department will soon be announcing new initiatives to help the nation's nearly 40,000 homeless veterans find housing. Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough gives opening remarks at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. Photo by Alan Kotok. "No veteran should be homeless," McDonough said during the annual speech timed to the celebration of Veterans Day, which is Thursday. The VA has found at least temporary housing for about 40 vets who drew…
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Communicators plan to host session on how corporations should take a stand, Tuesday, Nov. 16, at Noon
The National Press Club’s Communicators Team plan to host a Lunch & Learn program to discuss how public relations and corporate social responsibility (CSR) are increasingly entwined on Tuesday, Nov. 16, at noon. Admission to the Zoom webinar is free for NPC members and $15 for nonmembers. Proceeds support the NPC Staff Holiday Fund. Click here to register. Taking a stand is no longer an option for most corporations. Amidst political polarization, there is an increasing need for authentic leadership from the private sector — the workforce and consumers are demanding it. The speakers are…
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Petition to free Austin Tice gains momentum following 5K run
A petition to free Austin Tice, an award-winning journalist and Marine veteran being detained unjustly in Syria, has gained momentum thanks in part to last weekend's virtual 5K event sponsored by the National Press Club. The Club's petition for Tice on Change.org had garnered approximately 142,000 signatures on Nov. 7. That number had risen to 146,551 as of Friday morning, following the Club's Run for Austin on Nov. 13. Many of the participants added to their support for Tice by signing the petition, which calls on the Biden administration to make Tice's release a diplomatic priority. Since…
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Sinn Féin leader: A unified Ireland possible within decade
One hundred years after Northern Ireland stayed with the United Kingdom when Ireland won independence, the goal of one united Ireland could be achieved within five to 10 years, Sinn Féin party leader Mary Lou McDonald said at the National Press Club on Thursday. Expectations have changed, and Brexit has elevated the idea of reunification, she told interviewer Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak, a past president of the Club. Sinn Féin party leader Mary Lou McDonald said a unified Ireland is within reach at a Dec. 2 National Press Club Newsmaker event. Photo: Marshall H. Cohen The idea is not "just a…
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Member-author's book outlines practical steps for financing climate change mitigation measures
"There are lots of people that like to talk about climate change and global warming, but there aren't an awful lot of people that really want to do something about it,” Michael Curley told the National Press Club Member Author Group as he described the problem he sought to address in his new book, "The Price of Climate Change: Sustainable Financial Mechanisms." As the book's subtitle suggests, he didn't write about a long list of woes. Instead, Curley, a Club member and participant in the author group, details the costs involved in addressing the effects of climate change on our society and…
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