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McCarren strengthened Club's finances, press freedom mission
When Bill McCarren founded a startup, U.S. Newswire, in 1986, he moved one floor below a lively social club he saw as a gathering ground for connecting Washington policy-making with the journalists who make the news happen. He joined his upstairs neighbor, the National Press Club, as a member that year. More than three decades later, he will retire after serving the last 16 years as first the Club’s general manager and then as executive director, a tenure marked by the Club’s increasing financial strength and wider reach on press freedom issues. The Club will host a farewell for McCarren at 7…
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Gandhi: Indian democracy under pressure
The foundations of Indian democracy are strong, but threatened, with the country's institutions and media held captive by the ruling party, India's top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said Thursday at National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker. “You have to have an independent set of institutions that are not pressurized and controlled,” he said. “That’s been the law. That’s been the normal. What is taking place now is an aberration.”
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McCarren: 'It meant the world to me!’ Club thanks McCarren for years of leadership
People whose lives have been impacted through his press freedom advocacy and leadership over the last 15 years thanked Bill McCarren Friday evening, June 2, at the National Press Club. Some were brought to tears while watching a video highlighting McCarren’s tenure as he retires this month as the Club's executive director. "I'm grateful for the privilege of celebrating your incredible career," Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, said in the video shown during a reception in the First Amendment Lounge. National Press Club Executive Director Bill McCarren…
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Author and expert analyzes America’s global competition with China
In this edition of Update-1, National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast Team member Lincoln Smith talks to Dr. Jonathan Ward about Ward's latest book, “The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China.”
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Clift, Crittenden reflect on breaking into the boys' club of hard news reporting
Women broke into the men-only preserve of hard news reporting through legal fights and sheer determination, groundbreaking journalists Eleanor Clift and Ann Crittenden told a National Press Club audience at the History and Heritage team's "Tales for the Fight for Equal Rights for Women Journalists” on Monday. “It was very obvious what the system was,” Crittenden explained. “Women were researchers and men were reporters.” Magazine publisher Henry Luce called them his “vestal virgins,” she said to audience gasps. “We were second class.”
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Panel: Church Committee did what was right for the country, not the party
The 1975 Church Committee, established to investigate the intelligence community, succeeded because the members of the committee and the staff that supported it put the national interest above party interest, author and journalist James Risen and former Sen. Gary Hart, the last surviving member of the Church Committee, told a National Press Club audience Monday. Risen, author of “The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator's Fight to Save Democracy,” and his son and co-author, Tom Risen, were also joined by members of the Church Committee's staff Peter…
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Trans advocates ‘need more from White House’ following uptick in anti-trans bills, rhetoric
The Biden administration and other allies need to do more to advance and protect rights for transgender people and others in the LGBTQIA+ community, transgender advocates said Thursday during a Headliners Newsmaker at the National Press Club.
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore to address Headliners Luncheon, tomorrow
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore will address the National Press Club at a Headliners Luncheon on Thursday, June 22. Moore, Maryland's first Black governor, recently finished his first legislative session, signing into law a $15 an hour minimum wage, expanded tax breaks for military retirees, and a first-in-the-nation program offering high school students a state-paid service year option. He also signed new gun control bills that restrict who can carry guns in public and where they can bring them. The National Rifle Association immediately challenged the measures in federal court.
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British defense attaché gives bullish report on Ukraine's offensive
"Ukraine is fighting for all of us who defend freedom," Rear Admiral Tim Woods, defense attaché and head of the British Defense staff in Washington, told National Press Club American Legion Post 20 at its luncheon meeting Wednesday. Woods, who previously served as his country's defense attaché to Ukraine, gave an upbeat assessment of that country's Western-backed offense against Russia's invasion. Rear Admiral Tim Woods, defense attache and head of the British Defense staff in Washington, addresses the National Press Club's American Legion Post 20 Wednesday. Photo: Rex Stucky A graduate…
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ICYMI: Maryland governor urges U.S. to move past politics, 'get serious' on violence
Editor's note: This article was inadvertently omitted from an early edition of the Wire on Friday. It is being republished for readers who may have missed it. Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) told a National Press Club Luncheon Thursday that the United States needs to move beyond rhetoric and sensationalism if it hopes to make progress on public safety. “We know that since the 1990s, incidents of violent crime have gone down across America … but today the fear of violence seems more widespread than ever before,” Moore said. “We cannot truly address the reality of violence unless we…
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