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Award-winning journalist Hinojosa: U.S. suffers from decades of poor immigration policy
The U.S. has suffered from decades of poor immigration policy under both Republican and Democrat administrations, but the problems now are acute, award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa said Thursday during a National Press Club Virtual Book Rap. "We have an international human rights crisis that has been perpetrated by this government on people whose only crime is not being born in this country," Hinojosa told Club Vice President Lisa Matthews in the hour-long program. President-elect Biden has said within the first 100 days of his administration he will reunite children who were separated…
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Reuters, VICE News, NBC win top awards in National Press Club journalism contest
Reuters won top awards for consumer journalism and foreign coverage, while VICE News won first place for news photo journalism and best young journalist in the National Press Club’s 2020 journalism awards. NBC News won top broadcast awards for consumer journalism and for foreign coverage. The award winners will be celebrated in a virtual event December 2 at 7 p.m. National Press Club past president Jonathan Salant of NJ Advance Media won for best Washington Regional Reporting. Cameron Joseph of VICE News won the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for young journalists. Michael Bender of The Wall…
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Former Majority Leader Dole recalls bipartisanship in Senate, lauds military veterans in Veterans Day interview
Former Senate Majority Leader Robert "Bob" Dole, in an interview with National Press Club President Michael Freedman that aired on Veterans Day, said he is confident that the United States will continue to retain military superiority. “Our president," Dole said, referring to President Trump, "by doing what he did in military areas has assured that we’re going to be the strongest country in the world for years and years to come.” “We have the military might to take on anyone,” he added.
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Bittman: Lack of affordable quality food is a public health crisis
For years, Mark Bittman has been famously writing about how to buy and cook all manner of food. Yet his latest book, “Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal,” delivered several stark messages that he discussed during a May 13 National Press Club Headliners event. Bittman kicked off the discussion by speaking about the five-year evolutionary process of writing his book and the subject focus that kept rising to the top. “It just became increasingly clear that there were increasing problems with our food system with the food we were growing and processing and…
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Actors union leader Carteris: Labor movement can help make Hollywood more diverse
Two days after NBC cancelled next year’s Golden Globes broadcast over lack of diversity at the program’s sponsor, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the leader of a major Hollywood union said labor organizations are well positioned to address diversity issues in the entertainment industry. “Despite the challenges we face, we are in a moment of opportunity for unions, for the labor movement, and for workers everywhere,” Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) President Gabrielle Carteris said at a National Press Club Virtual Headliners event on…
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Don Lemon: I'm Not Doing Advocacy. I'm Telling the Truth
As the only Black anchor serving in a primetime role on cable news, Don Lemon uses his nightly platform to parse through the complicated issues surrounding race in America. It’s a way to get beyond the typical headlines and directly address the topics that affect people of color. His program may not be like the other shows in the 10 p.m. hour but, the longtime CNN host said, it’s a far cry from advocacy journalism. “I'm not doing advocacy. I'm telling the truth,” Lemon said during a National Press Club virtual book event Monday, May 10. “We've been deceived for so long that speaking out…
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Kinzinger says his warnings of violence prior to Capitol insurrection fell on deaf GOP ears
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, said Monday, May 10, his warning to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy about potential violence just before the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection was met with a response of ”the cricket sound," and instead “they came back after Liz Cheney.” The insurrection “was entirely predictable and could have been avoided. It’s ludicrous that [Rep.] Liz Cheney [R-Wyo.] is having to defend herself,” Kinzinger said. Kinzinger spoke at a National Press Club Virtual Headliners event at the start of a week in which Cheney is likely to be…
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Three 'founding mothers' describe how women built NPR
As Linda Wertheimer rode the bus to work ahead of National Public Radio’s first broadcast in 1971, mobs of antiwar protesters tried to throw tear gas canisters through the windows. Braving the nauseating smoke, she finally made it to the fledgling station, where a group of talented and under-paid young women were among the first to dive into the grand experiment of public radio. “I got to work, I got upstairs where I was supposed to be, and started helping to put the program together,” Wertheimer said in reflecting on the experience at a National Press Club virtual Book and Author webcast…
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DNC Chair Jaime Harrison pledges major investment in midterms, voter protection
Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison pledged a massive investment to elect Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections and protect the right to vote during a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker on Wednesday. Harrison said the DNC will spend $20 million in the next year alone on mid-term campaigns — the committee’s largest infusion of money into a mid-term election cycle. He said it means campaigns will have more time to engage with voters on the ground, provide state parties with more resources, lay the groundwork for 2024 and beyond and take the electoral fight to Republicans. “…
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New scholarship supports diversity in broadcast journalism
A newly established broadcast journalism scholarship at the National Press Club supports diversity within the field while honoring longtime radio journalist Wes Vernon, a former Club member. The Wes Vernon Broadcast Scholarship will provide $5,000 annually to a student who demonstrates a commitment to a career in broadcast journalism. The award can be renewed up to three years for a total of $20,000 toward educational expenses. "My father loved his years in news radio – every morning he was excited to see what the day would bring,” said Diane Powell, Mr. Vernon’s daughter. “I hope this…
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