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Son of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers recounts dad's saga
The rumors surrounding U-2 spy-plane pilot Francis Gary Powers' mission and capture in the Soviet Union 60 years ago were the "fake news of the time," Powers' son Francis Gary Powers Jr. told a gathering of the National Press Club American Legion Post 20 on April 11. The younger Powers, born five years after his father's shoot-down at the height of the Cold War, told a packed room of Post members and guests that his 30-year quest to dispel doubts about his father's actions "goes to show that it's never too late to set the record straight. His reputation is now intact." He said his father's…
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National Press Club member-author writes about Sri Lanka’s struggles in new book
National Press Club member Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, author of "Conundrum of an Island: Sri Lanka’s Geopolitical Challenges," said he was motivated to write the book after “having first-hand witnessed the almost three-decade civil war, a youth insurrection and narrowly escaping the terror attack on Easter Sunday," that struck three churches and three luxury hotels in 2019.
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Air Force Secretary urges transformation to meet Chinese challenge
Citing China as the most serious current threat to U.S. national security, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall called the fiscal year 2023 budget request for the Air Force a first step in its transformation to meet the threat. He spoke Tuesday at a National Press Club Headliners event. The Department of the Air Force requested $194 billion, an 11.7 percent increase from 2022. Of that, $169.5 billion is for the Air Force itself and 24.5 billion for the Space Force, the newest component of the Department of the Air Force. Kendall said he returned to government after four years in the…
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New Update-1 podcast: Why Murrow still matters
A National Press Club event in early April that examined the career of broadcast legend Edward R. Murrow, who set the standard for broadcast journalism with his reporting from London during World War II, is the focus of the latest edition of Update-1, the Club's podcast. Edward R. Murrow In the podcast, Murrow's son Casey Murrow, an honorary NPC member, along with Marvin Kalb, the last correspondent hired by Murrow at CBS, talks about Murrow's life and legacy. They are joined by former NPC presidents Mike Freedman and Mark Hamrick, National Press Club Journalism Institute President and…
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New Club scholarship diversifies DC journalism internships with $4,000 stipend and free housing
A new scholarship program will provide free housing and a monthly stipend to support student journalists of color who plan to intern at news media outlets in Washington, D.C., beginning in 2023. The Lewis Scholarship has an estimated value of $10,000 and will be awarded to one undergraduate student journalist of color each fall, spring, and summer semester. The scholarship will provide a stipend of $1,000 per month and free housing provided through Washington Intern Student Housing for the duration of the student’s internship, usually four months. The scholarship program was established on…
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Spiraling health care costs can be contained by healthier lifestyles, 'Nanny' star Drescher says
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher and National Press Club President Jen Judson share a laugh at the April 25, 2022, luncheon at which Drescher promoted healthy living as the way to reduce health care costs. Photo: Joe Luchok As long as health care costs continue to spiral out of control, the country’s “only hedge against financial collapse” is for individuals to get healthy and stay that way, actress Fran Drescher told a National Press Club Headliners luncheon on April 25. The health care system in the United States is a “sick care system in which we wait until people get sick and try to…
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Fauci says ‘control’ phase of pandemic underway, but COVID-19 will not disappear
Club President Jen Judson shares a laugh with Anthony Fauci during virtual Newsmaker. Photo: Alan Kotok Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said during a virtual National Press Club Newsmaker on Friday, April 29, that the United States is now in the “control” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, but eradication of the disease is “almost impossible.” He said this phase means that infections are present, but society is not disrupted by thousands of infections and deaths and the hospital…
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Author Hayden describes discovery of massive refugee camps in Libya
Sally Hayden, Africa correspondent for The Irish Times and author of "My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route," told a Headliners Book Event April 29 how an anonymous Facebook message led to the book. The message launched her down a path to expose mass atrocities in detention centers in Libya, ignored by governments, out of sight of most people and worsening by the day, she said. Sally Hayden is the author of "My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route" and Africa correspondent for The Irish Times. The…
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In inaugural address, Judson pledges work on public trust, press freedom
Jen Judson, the 115th President of the National Press Club, pledged at her inauguration ceremony Friday night to work to restore public trust in the media and advocate for press freedom around the world. Judson, the land warfare reporter at Defense News, said in her inaugural address that after four years of attacks on the press from former President Donald Trump, the growth of fake news and disinformation campaigns and the plunging approval ratings of the press, restoring that trust is crucial. "It's no wonder we have our work cut out for us to regain public trust, but we have to do it,”…
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