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Take a walk through Club history, May 22
Step back in time with the History and Heritage Team leaders as they join the Young Members Team for a special behind-the-scenes tour of the Club’s storied past. From legendary moments to hidden gems, this engaging walkthrough and Q&A will offer a glimpse into the people, events, and milestones that helped shape our Club’s legacy. Whether you're a history buff or just curious to learn more, this is a chance to connect across generations and discover the roots of the place we all belong to! Following the collaborative program with the History and Heritage Team leaders, Club members who are…
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Former First Lady of Iceland weaves a tale of murder, diplomacy and Icelandic culture in new novel
“Death on the Island,” the debut novel by Eliza Reid opens with a gaggle of diplomats, a raging storm, and a mysterious death on Iceland's remote, sparsely populated Westman Islands. The murder mystery that unfolds is underscored by themes of gender equality and public servant life understood all too well by the former first lady of Iceland. “I really played with the idea of sometimes how women are underestimated, or that they are put into boxes based on the roles that other people perceive they have,” said Reid in a discussion with National Press Club Vice President Alisa Parenti about her…
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Is Legend of Broadcast honoree Nina Totenberg ready to retire? "Fuhgetaboutit!"
Nina Totenberg wanted to make something clear when the National Press Club honored her as a "Legend of Broadcast" at a dinner Wednesday. "When you're honored as a legend, you — I hope you all know what that means: It means you'e old," said Totenberg, National Public Radio's legal affairs correspondent, who is 81. "Now having said that, I should say that I've been honored as a legend lots of times in the last decade or so, but I'm still not retiring. So if you were hoping for such an announcement — fuhgetaboutit!" Legend of Broadcast honoree Nina Totenberg of NPR. Photo by Peter West.…
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Social-media sensation Dr. Mike tells Press Club Headliners Dinner he can see 40 patients each day or millions online
Dr. Mike receives mug from NPC President Mike Balsamo at a National Press Club Headliners Dinner on May 30. Photo by Jeremy Bigwood. Dr. Mikhail "Mike" Varshavski, a board-certified family-medicine physician, media personality, educator, writer, and philanthropist with more than 25,000,000 followers spoke at the National Press Club Headliners Dinner on May 30 saying he is looking to treat the increasingly contentious relationships between media and health by creating one video and having one honest conversation at a time, using humor and facts. “I can only see 40 patients a day…[on social…
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NPC President Balsamo encourages members to bring friends to National Press Club
The National Press Club is at the forefront of the battle to preserve press freedom and support journalism during a time of profound stress for the profession and could use more help in the form of additional Club members. “We're growing; we're modernizing; we're defending a free and independent press; and we're making [the Club] a place where journalists, communicators and truth tellers want to be,” NPC President Mike Balsamo said May 30 at the Club’s General Membership Meeting. “Please help us grow. Invite a colleague, bring a friend to an event, tell someone what the Club has meant to you…
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Browne-Marshall urges action, warns against complacency in protest movements
Legal scholar and civil rights advocate Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, author of A Protest History of the United States, issued a stark warning about the dangers of complacency in social movements, urging Americans to recognize their role in shaping democracy through protest. Gloria Browne-Marshall reads from her book, “A Protest History of the United States,” at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on May 29. Photo: Joseph Luchok. Speaking at the National Press Club’s Headliners book event May 29, Browne-Marshall stressed that activism has played a crucial role in securing freedoms that…
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Update-1: Fighting back against government secrecy
Independent journalist and National Press Club member Miranda Spivack details the underreported rise in secret dealmaking between local governments and corporations and how these agreements are a threat to our health, safety and democracy in her new book . Spivack discusses Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back with Broadcast/Podcast Team member Bill Loveless in the latest Update-1 podcast. They talk about "accidental activists" who combat secrecy around poisoned drinking water, dangerous roads, failing sewers and…
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Club awards Jacqueline Munis its 2025 Lewis Scholarship
The National Press Club has chosen Jacqueline Munis as the recipient of its Lewis Scholarship for 2025. The scholarship provides housing and a $4,000 stipend to support a student journalist of color interning at a news media outlet in Washington, D.C. Munis graduates from Stanford University next week and has accepted a summer internship with POLITICO. The judges were impressed by her exceptional work at The Stanford Daily, where she led the revival of an equity-focused news desk covering underrepresented members of the Stanford community. As an editor, she recently secured a grant from the…
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