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Club awards Sofia Andrade its Summer 2024 Lewis Scholarship
The National Press Club has chosen five exemplary students as the recipients of its scholarships that honor promising future journalists serving their communities. The Wire has been profiling each this week, starting Monday with two who are still in high school. This fifth and final profile is of a Harvard graduate who is to be a summer intern for The Washington Post's Features team. The National Press Club has chosen Sofia Andrade of Miami, Florida, to be the recipient of its Lewis Scholarship for summer 2024. The scholarship provides housing and a $4,000 stipend to support a student…
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Club awards Ashlee Korlach its 2024 Shirley & Dennis Feldman Fellowship
The National Press Club has chosen five exemplary students as the recipients of its scholarships that honor promising future journalists serving their communities. The Wire is profiling each this week, starting Monday with two who are still in high school. This fourth profile is of a graduate student who is a multiplatform editor for The Boston Globe. The National Press Club has chosen Ashlee Korlach of Virginia to be the recipient of its 2024 Shirley & Dennis Feldman Fellowship. The award for graduate students is a one-time scholarship of $5,000. Korlach is a multiplatform editor for…
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Jazz Night, Mediterranean buffet, conversation make mellifluous combination
National Press Club members enjoyed a wonderful evening of jazz music, conversation and delicious food May 23 as the Events Committee presented a book talk by author Larry Tye followed by live music by musicians from Washington's Blues Alley. In a conversation moderated by Alexanrda Bowman and noted local emcee Brogan Smith, Tye told stories of the 250 interviews he conducted for his book The Jazzmen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America. He explained how the artists' influence went well beyond music. Author Larry Tye (l) recounted some of the 250…
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Sports, fitness can bolster mental health, White House council says
Organized sports and concentrated physical activity can help young people cope with stress threatening their mental health, members of the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition and other health officials said May 28 at the National Press Club. "Right now, there's a mental health crisis in our nation," Douglas Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, said at the Club Headliners event. "One in five teenagers report difficulty with anxiety or depression." 'Physical activity can boost mental health,' Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris…
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Update-1: NPC member discusses experience with clogged arteries in new book
NPC member Will Driscoll, author of "Your Arteries: An Owner's Manual" National Press Club member Will Driscoll was fortunate to find out that his arteries were becoming clogged, allowing him to get the treatment he needed. The experience prompted him to write an informational handbook on vascular health so others can have the same opportunity. In Your Arteries--An Owner’s Manual, Driscoll discusses the risks of clogged arteries and the medical procedures that are available to check your arteries. In the latest edition of Update-1, Driscoll talks with NPC Broadcast/Podcast member Bill…
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Hear Club member Larry LeSueur describe his D-Day landing
Eighty years ago on June 6 –- the day that will always be remembered in American history as D-Day -– a reporter by the name of Larry LeSueur landed at Utah Beach in the first wave, armed only with a typewriter. LeSueur, who became a National Press Club member after World War II, was one of the elite CBS Radio reporters known as the Murrow Boys, working for Edward R. Murrow, who from the earliest days of the war invented broadcast news to get the stories back to radio listeners in the United States. Reporter Larry LeSueur landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day. He later became a National Press Club…
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Club's Legends of Broadcasting dinner on June 25 welcomes CNN's Frank Sesno
Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist Frank Sesno will be the guest of the National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast team at a Legends of Broadcasting dinner on Tuesday, June 25. Sesno spent more than four decades in journalism, about half of it at CNN where he was White House correspondent, Sunday talk show host and Washington bureau chief. He has interviewed five U.S. presidents and countless world figures. His career in Washington began at the Associated Press Radio network, where he covered the White House and served as London correspondent. He currently is director of the George…
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Club urges members to donate for Aubuchon winner's hospice care
The National Press Club is grieved to learn that freelance photojournalist Linda Tirado, the recipient of the Club's 2020 domestic John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, is dying and has entered hospice care as a result of injuries sustained during her coverage of the Minneapolis protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd. Club President Emily Wilkins is in contact with Linda and working on a way to honor her legacy. Club members are encouraged to make a donation to Linda to cover the costs of hospice care. Donations can be sent through Venmo (Linda-Tirado-3), PayPal (Bootstrapindustries@…
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Club member discusses book on ‘Russiagate’ report
National Press Club member Andrew Kreig said his latest book, The Complete Annotated Durham Russiagate Report, was possible “because of my rare position to learn certain facts.” Kreig discussed his book on June 18 at a book event sponsored by the Club’s Member Author Group. The book exposes Justice Department Special Counsel John Durham as a supporter of former President Donald Trump and shows his attempts to go after Hillary Clinton and find evidence that absolved any of Trump’s supporters of any connection with Russia. The book was started 13 years ago and according to Krieg was updated in…
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Press prevails over pols with "gnathic" at Spelling Bee
Alex Clearfield, Deputy Team Lead for State Litigation with Bloomberg Law, wine the Spelling Bee. Photo by Nancy Shia “Gnathic” was the final word, but by the time eventual champion Alex Clearfield had shocked the crowd by spelling “waterzooi,” the writing was on the wall at Thursday evening’s annual Press vs. Politicians Spelling Bee at the National Press Club Ballroom. The Press team’s Clearfield, deputy team Lead for state litigation with Bloomberg Law, claimed victory over the Politicians’ final speller Rep. Don Beyer, D-VA, who stumbled on “cancrivorous.” The Press spelled 31 words…
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