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National Press Club Journalism Institute honors AP's Kat Stafford with Sheehan award for investigative journalism
The winner of this year's 2023 Neil and Susan Sheehan Award for Investigative Journalism is Kat Stafford, a national investigative writer with the Associated Press, the National Press Club Institute announced. Stafford is a leading voice on representation and equity; her investigative work analyzes how structural racism has fueled inequity through the lens of politics, government, health, and environmental justice. Among her journalistic work this year, she reported and published a series exploring how the legacy of racism in America has laid the foundation for health inequities Black people…
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Journalists urge US to press harder for release of Austin Tice
Marking the 11th anniversary of journalist Austin Tice's abduction in Syria, his mother Debra Tice on Monday implored President Biden to employ the same pragmatic approach used to free US hostages in Iran earlier this month to secure her son's release. “Show me, show Austin, that Austin has value to you and this country, that he is worth bringing home,” Tice said in a statement at the National Press Club. Iran last week agreed to a deal that would free five detained U.S. citizens in exchange for the disbursement of $6 billion in frozen Iranian oil revenue to be used for humanitarian purchases…
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Campaign reporters share different techniques for covering a presidential debate
Scanning social media, seeking post-debate interviews, examining fundraising, and fact-checking candidates are among the many options for finding stories after a presidential debate that can push campaign coverage forward, top political reporters said Wednesday at a National Press Club panel on covering presidential debates. "We've watched the interviews afterward on MSNBC, on C-SPAN, for what they say and get some quotes from that," said longtime political reporter Jonathan D. Salant Salant, who has covered every presidential election since 1984 and has attended 18 national political…
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Journalist Sean Carberry discusses mental toll of war correspondence at Headliners book talk
As a war correspondent your job is “consuming death, pain, and destruction and communicating that,” according to Sean Carberry, author of "Passport Stamps: Searching the World for a War to Call Home." “When you’re in the moment, in the flow, you’re staying a step ahead of this stuff catching up with you,” he said. Once he returned to the United States, it caught up with him — emotionally. Carberry discussed his seven years as a radio journalist covering conflicts on four continents at a Headliners Book Rap on Thursday, August 17. In the discussion led by Club Vice President Emily Wilkins,…
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Late ‘shoe leather’ Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter, Washington Post win President’s Awards
Investigative reporter Jeff German pursued organized crime figures, kidnappers and killers, his editor told a National Press Club audience Wednesday. But it was a down-ballot politician who is accused of taking his life. “He was foremost an old-school, shoe leather, phone-line burning reporter,” said Glenn Cook, executive editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “And he feared no one, not even the mob associate who sucker punched him at the beginning of his career.” It was German’s probe of wrongdoing by Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles that ended tragically. German was stabbed…
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Panel faults media, military after screening of Afghanistan documentary, Sept 6
Panelists shared insights on the Afghan government's collapse despite the Pentagon's twenty-year nation-building and military investment, after a screening of FRONTLINE's conclusion of their three-part series, "America and the Taliban," Sept. 6. The third installment covers the U.S. withdrawal and how the Taliban seized provincial capitols, leading to former President Ashraf Ghani's escape and the Taliban's ultimate control of the country -- all in a matter of weeks. "Nobody believed it would fall overnight," said Roya Rahmani in the documentary. A panel member, she is the first Afghan…
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National Press Club press freedom honoree Emilio Gutiérrez Soto wins asylum after 15-year wait
Photo: Lynette Clemetson A National Press Club press freedom honoree who has been battling attempts to deport him to a country where he was threatened with death finally has won asylum in the United States. Fifteen years after coming to the U.S. legally and seeking refuge, Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto this week received word that the Board of Immigration Appeals has ruled him eligible for asylum. In a five-page opinion sent to Gutiérrez’s lawyer, Eduardo Beckett, the BIA ruled that an El Paso immigration judge’s two decisions against Gutiérrez were “clearly erroneous.” The…
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Author reports implicit bias in Shaker Heights school despite citizens' efforts
Club President Eileen O'Reilly passes the National Press Club mug to author Laura Meckler. Photo: Noel-Marie Fletcher Growing up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a city uniquely devoted to racial equity since the 1950s, Laura Meckler felt enormous pride. She used to say, “You guys have racial problems, but we’ve got this figured out,” she explained at a National Press Club Headliners’ book event Sept.13. As national education writer for the Washington Post, however, Meckler learned that the truth was far more complex, a discovery that set her on the path to write her new book, "Dream Town:…
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Press triumphs over politicians in 2023 Spelling Bee
Amy Wang, national politics reporter at The Washington Post. Photo: Alan Kotok Journalists triumphed over lawmakers in the 2023 Press vs. Politicians Spelling Bee on Wednesday. Amy Wang, a national politics reporter at The Washington Post and defending champion, won for a second consecutive year. In the fifth and final round, which focused on previous championship words in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the contest narrowed to two journalists, along with a single politician. Those still standing were Wang, James Graff, a justice and judiciary editor at The Wall Street Journal, and Rep…
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1936 NPC president’s collection presented to Club archives
Julie McKeen, flanked by her husband Garry and Club Archivist Jeff Schlosberg, holds the original cartoon by Clifford Berryman she donated to the Club with boxes of memorabilia collected by her great uncle, George Stimpson. Photo: Gil Klein George Stimpson was the National Press Club President in 1936 while he was a columnist for the Houston Post. His most lasting legacy – as far as Club histories go – is the photo of him sitting next to luncheon speaker Eugene Cardinal Pacelli, the Vatican Secretary of State, who would become Pope Pius XII in 1939. But this week, his grandniece, Julie…
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