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Bill McCarren honored by Owls for significant contributions to NPC
The National Press Club Silver Owls -- those with 25 or more years of continuous membership -- on Thursday evening conferred the Order of the Owl on Club Executive Director Bill McCarren for his many contributions to the Club. The award honors “birds of a unique species, weathered and wise, who have nested at the National Press Club and demonstrated that they give a hoot about Washington Journalism.” McCarren has nested at the Club since he joined it in 1986 as an active member. He served in a variety of roles, including chairman of the Newsmakers and Speakers committees, each for three years…
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National Academies call for Congressional and Federal agency action to reduce drug costs
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a report at a National Press Club Headliners event Thursday, entitled “Making Medicines Affordable,” calling for congressional and federal agency steps to lower drug costs. The report seeks to “address the market failures that currently permeate the pharmaceutical sector,” according to an introduction written by Norman Augustine, chairman of the committee that wrote the report and former chairman of the National Academy of Engineering, who spoke first at the event. The report makes eight recommendations and recommends 27…
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World Bank president aims to end extreme poverty by 2030
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, a physician and anthropologist, told a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon Monday that economic growth, stability and investment in people were the “pillars” to meet the Bank’s goals of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting prosperity for the poorest 40 percent of the world’s population. Extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day, remains the condition of 767 million people, 1.1 billion less than in 1990, he said. The World Bank contributes to such progress as part of the international economic order created at the close of World War II…
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African Union Commission chairperson says no coup in Zimbabwe
Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairperson of the African Union Commission, told a Club Headliners Luncheon Wednesday that the unfolding unrest in Zimbabwe was not a coup. “The military have reassured us that this is not a coup d’etat,” Mahamat said through a translator. He said a delegation sent to the country provided the information. According to Mahamat, President Robert Mugabe and his family are safe in the country, a key factor in making that determination. On Wednesday, Zimbabwe’s military announced over state broadcasting that they had seized power but were not aiming for the 94 year-old Mugabe…
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Reporting on the turbulent Trump administration
Journalists are facing a gamut of unprecedented challenges during President Donald Trump's administration: denied access, outright falsehoods, and lack of available information, to name a few. On Wednesday, the National Press Club Journalism Institute, the Club’s professional training affiliate, joined forces with another non-profit dedicated to journalism education, the National Press Foundation, to host a half-day symposium on covering politics in the era of "fake news". “The best defense against the charge of fake news is to make every effort to make sure your news isn’t fake,” said Chris…
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Misty Copeland protests National Endowment for the Arts elimination under Trump
Arts funding by taxpayers and the federal government should be maintained in the face of defunding threats, American Ballet Theater Principal Dancer Misty Copeland said Monday at the National Press Club. “Of course I’m not happy,” Copeland lamented in criticizing the Trump administration’s proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). “Right now is an even more important time for artists to have a voice, and to stand up for what’s right for this country.” Copeland compared the NEA’s funding for arts funding and education in schools to the charity MindLeaps, with which…
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Kalb Report: How Trump’s gotten into our heads
President Donald Trump is trying to demonize news reporting to shape the information reaching the public so that it only makes him look good -– and it won’t work, CNN’s Jake Tapper and the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold told host Marvin Kalb on the latest edition of The Kalb Report April 8. Just days after the program on April 10, Fahrenthold won the Pulitzer Prize for his presidential-campaign stories that probed Trump’s charitable giving. Kalb started the program by noting that Trump refers to news reports he doesn’t like as “fake news” and that he called journalists “the most…
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IRS Commissioner shares insights on 2017 tax filing season, hopes for future of tax code
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen spoke to a full house at a National Press Club Luncheon April 5 about his pride in the successful tax filing season every year of his almost-four-year tenure and his desire to see the tax code simplified. Koskinen joked that while the IRS is often seen as an unpopular government entity, his employees put in an incredible amount of work preparing for tax season. “I don’t take the process for granted anymore [like I did before I was commissioner],” Koskinen said. “Tax filing season doesn’t happen automatically or by accident. Our employees spend months working on…
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Trumka calls on Trump to choose workers over Wall Street
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka April 4 called on President Donald J. Trump to decide who he stands with -— the coal miners and other American workers who he promised to help during his campaign or Wall Street tycoons who “are rigging the economy at our expense.” Speaking at a National Press Club luncheon, Trumka said, “this decision will be the single greatest test of his presidency.” “We are closing in on the first 100 days of President Trump’s administration, and two very different factions have emerged," Trumka said. "There is a Wall Street wing that undermines Donald Trump’s promises to…
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Journalism Institute receives $25K donation to scholarship fund from NBC News, MSNBC
The National Press Club Journalism Institute will receive an unexpected contribution of $25,000 to its Diversity Scholarship fund from NBC News and MSNBC. "MSNBC's gift goes to the heart of one of our core beliefs for many years, supporting talented future journalists who reflect our society's rich diversity. We are grateful that NBC News shares our vision to be the world's leading professional organization for journalists,” said NPC President Jeff Ballou. “Each year, our diversity scholarship winners share their stories about events in their lives that have inspired them to want to be…
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