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Author gives behind-the-scenes look at book on Hulk Hogan/Gawker lawsuit
Ryan Holiday became more sympathetic to Gawker than he expected as he researched and wrote Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, a book about the suit against the website’s publication of a sex tape, he told a National Press Club Headliners Book Rap on March 15. “I came away easily being able to see both sides,” Holiday told former Club President Angela Greiling Keane, who interviewed him at the event. In Washington to promote the book, Holiday shared insights from his in-depth research and interviews with some of the key players involved in the 2016…
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Flake cites Trump behavior as reason to drop reelection run, leaves possible presidential bid open
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., told a National Press Club audience March 15 that his resistance to President Trump's behavior helped persuade him not to seek a second term. Flake, speaking to a luncheon audience in the Holeman Lounge, read a prepared speech that was highly critical of Trump. But first out of the box during the question and answer period was Club President Andrea Edney's question: "Are you running for president?" "Next question," Flake said, flashing his famed smile, then added, "Running for president is not in my plans. But I'm not ruling anything out." Later Flake said he would…
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Panel urges reporters to educate government workers on right to speak to press
A panel of journalists and government accountability experts told a National Press Club audience March 14 that journalists need to educate government employees that they have a legal right to talk to reporters. The education is necessary if reporters expect to combat what surveys say is a growing effort by agencies to inject public information officers between news gatherers and news sources, the speakers said. "It just gets worse and worse," said Kathryn Foxhall, a freelance reporter and member of the Freedom of the Information Committee of the Society of Professional Journalists. "How can…
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Institute panel reports troubled and dangerous times for journalists
Despite growing tensions between the media and government officials in the United States, journalists elsewhere face far worse conditions, according to a six-member panel of veteran reporters and media advocacy groups who spoke at a National Press Club Journalism Institute symposium on March 12. “We’re not throwing journalists in jail here,” said the panel’s moderator, Miranda Spivack, a visiting journalism professor at DePauw University in Indiana, but warning signs exist. “It’s a tough time to be a journalist abroad and in the United States,” she said. A record number of journalists…
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Authors focus on racism in America during Book Rap
Anthony C. Thompson, director of the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at New York University, told a National Press Club Book Rap March 6 that "racism is in the DNA of America." He joined Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, to discuss "A Perilous Path: Race, Inequality, and the Law," the book they co-authored with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and death penalty lawyer Bryan Stevenson. The book essentially records a conversation among the four at a conference launching the NYU center a few weeks after the inauguration of President Trump. In the words of…
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Press Club panel addresses rising U.S. maternity mortality rate
Christy Turlington Burns and Nan Strauss of Every Mother Counts, a global nonprofit dedicated to improving access and removing barriers to care for women, presented a screening of two documentaries about the rising maternal mortality rate among American women March 8 and discussed the documentaries with National Press Club President Andrea Edney. After experiencing complications post-childbirth about 14 years ago, Turlington Burns decided she had to look into how prevalent childbirth complications and postpartum medical issues were. What she found shocked her: • The U.S. is the only…
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New suit beefs up effort to free Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez from federal detention
Human rights attorneys filed a second law suit March 6 in their effort to free from federal detention a Mexican journalist who won the National Press Club’s Aubuchon Freedom of the Press Award last October. The suit argues that the detention of Emilio Gutierrez Soto and his son Oscar violates the U.S. Constitution and international law because they have been held by the federal government for three months without being charged with a crime. “In the United States you can’t be thrown into jail if you haven’t done anything wrong, and that’s exactly what has happened to Emilio and Oscar," said…
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Closing workplace gender gap: insights, solutions offered at NPC Book Event
Veteran journalist Joanne Lipman told a National Press Club Headliner’s Book Event Thursday that her latest book, That’s What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together, came from years of conversations with women who feel “marginalized, overlooked, interrupted and not heard until their point was repeated by a guy.” Although it’s great that women tell each other about workplace problems with men, Lipman told her audience that “it’s just half a conversation.” The unfortunate side effects, she added, are that men don’t know what women face, fear saying…
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Black Panther is “seminal change” for movie industry, says superhero novelist
Having made more than $750 million at the box office, the movie “Black Panther” represents a “seminal change” in the industry, said a novelist who wrote a book featuring the Marvel hero. Jesse J. Holland, the author of the recent novel “Who is the Black Panther?” said the movie has shown what can be possible with a majority-black cast, production crew and director. He spoke at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Feb. 27. “Black Panther has shattered the myth that a story told by a black director using a black character and a majority-black cast cannot be successful in America,” he…
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Update-1: Former NPC president discusses administration's relationship with press
What will the Trump administration mean for press freedom? Will journalists cover the White House differently now that Donald Trump is president? Former National Press Club President Angela Greiling Keane, deputy technology editor for Politico Pro and former White House correspondent for Bloomberg News, discusses what she describes as the "unprecedented" relationship the press has with the Trump administration. She talks with Molly McCluskey, a member of the NPC's Broadcast/Podcast Team about the president's unusual willingness to criticize reporters and news organizations for stories he…
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