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Changes in transportation come to American cities
Web-based technology is driving major changes in transportation across American cities, said two transit experts at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event on Tuesday. “My job is to look at the future,” said Vincent Valdes from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration. In a new transportation environment, cities are innovating their transit systems with public and private partnerships. Those partners are shaping the cities of the future, already producing lifestyle changes. Think Uber and Lyft. Now imagine ride-sharing in driverless cars. Diana Mendes,…
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ACA's Medicaid expansion has helped addicted find treatment but system still “overwhelmed”
Panelists at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event on Monday voiced alarm that proposed Medicaid cuts in the Senate Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill would cripple strapped states’ effort at addressing the opioid crisis and compound difficulty in enforcing parity between mental health and physical health care. “The debate this week on the Graham-Cassidy bill is front and center on the opioid issue,” said Rep. Tim Ryan, (D-Ohio), co-chair of the House Addiction Treatment and Recovery Caucus. “There is no way [lawmakers] can vote and support the Graham-Cassidy bill” if they support…
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"Somatotype" makes Gillman NPC Spelling Bee Champ
Dallas Morning News Bureau Chief Todd Gillman is the champion of the 2017 National Press Club Spelling Bee beating out Florida Democrat Rep. Ted Deutch with the word “somatotype.” Somatotype is defined as a term for a body type. The competition, which was moderated by Dr. Jacques Bailly from the Scripps National Spelling Bee, featured a team of reporters facing off against a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The press team won with a final score of 39-36 after 12 rounds. Rather than a trophy, Gillman received a championship wrestling belt. The bee kicked off with 2016’s spelling bee champion…
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Military service at home illustrated by hurricane response
The top public affairs officer for the U.S. Army told a Wednesday, Sept. 20, meeting of American Legion Post 20 that hurricanes Harvey and Irma helped show Americans how the military serves the nation at home as well as abroad. Brig. Gen. Omar J. Jones, IV, a Maryland native, West Point graduate and veteran of infantry tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, discussed the challenges the Army and other services face with so few citizens -- about one half of one percent -- serving in the armed forces. Jones said ordinary soldiers are the Army's best emissaries to the public but noted that the military…
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Advice for Communicators: Know who you’re hitting before making a pitch
Former National Press Club President Angela Greiling Keane provided Club members with tips on pitching reporters and editors. At Wednesday’s regular Communicator Breakfasts, she noted people often miss two fundamental points: · Know what the publication you’re pitching covers. · Know what the journalist you’re pitching does. Almost daily she receives pitches that have nothing to do with what her staff covers. After that, to start a success pitch, have a relevant email subject line (or attention grabber if using another contact method) then “tell me the news right off the bat,”…
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Civil Rights Division’s work important but increasingly politicized, panel says
Four distinguished former assistant attorneys general for civil rights spanning several presidential administrations spoke about their tenures at the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division at a Headliners Newsmaker event late last week. They addressed top civil rights matters including Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), policing and racial profiling, LGBT rights, and President Trump’s nomination of Eric Dreiband to serve in their former role. However, voting rights drew the most attention. Stephen Pollak, who served during the Lyndon Johnson administration from 1965 to…
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Film, interview tell story of Mexican journalists fleeing violence
A documentary and a phone interview, at a National Press Club Journalism Institute event Sept. 11, told the story of three Mexican journalists who fled from violence in Mexico to seek asylum in the U.S. Two journalists faced serious immigration hurdles, a delay that continues after three years in limbo for one and jail for the other. “It’s not good in Mexico and it’s not good in the United States as it pertains to journalists from Mexico and other countries,” said John Donnelly, chairman of the Club’s Press Freedom Team. Margaux Ewen of Reporters Without Borders said eight Mexican journalists…
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NEA president criticizes plan to end DACA, but hopes Congress will fix it
Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the nation’s largest teachers’ union, denounced as “cruel, senseless, and unnecessary” the Trump administration’s plan to phase out an executive order by President Obama shielding young undocumented immigrants from deportation. But she said she is hopeful Congress will pass bipartisan legislation to protect them before a six-month deadline set by President Trump. At a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon Sept. 8, Eskelsen Garcia, who heads the National Education Association (NEA), introduced Axel Herrera, a 20-year-old Duke University sophomore brought…
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NPC Headliners event presents CIA analysis of Soviet Navy
A panel of CIA analysts and Navy historians presented a collection of newly declassified documents on the Soviet Navy at the National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on September 6. The CIA's Historical Review Program partnered with the National Museum of the U.S. Navy and the Naval Historical Foundation to release the records. The 82 intelligence reports, spanning the 1960s and 1980s, focus on the strategic efforts and consequences of the Soviet Union's plan to develop its naval force. "These documents are fascinating," naval intelligence historian Norman Polmar said during opening remarks…
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NAACP president says White House creates atmosphere for domestic terrorism
Derrick Johnson, interim president of the NAACP, said Aug. 29 the Trump White House was responsible for the conditions that led to this month’s deadly violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Unfortunately, this administration has created an atmosphere that has allowed domestic terrorists to exist,” Johnson said at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon. Various far-right hate groups gathered in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, ostensibly to protest plans to remove a statue of confederate general Robert E Lee from a public park. That afternoon, a suspect drove his…
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