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Update-1 chronicles challenges faced by Filipino journalist
Maria Ressa, co-founder and editor of Rappler, a news website in the Philippines was recently interviewed for Update-1, the National Press Club's podcast, by Irv Chapman, a longtime member of the Press Club. Ressa worries about the loss of editorial control of information by serious news organizations and the retrogression to authoritarianism in countries whose democratic evolution she has covered. She was in Washington to accept the International Center for Journalists award for her fearless coverage of the blood-stained war on drugs conducted by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is…
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Corporate CEOs launch global Cyber Readiness Program for small business
It was standing room only Dec. 17 at a National Press Club Headliner Newsmaker event as leaders of Mastercard, IBM and Microsoft launched the Cyber Readiness Program, a global initiative of The Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI), to provide support to small and medium-sized businesses as recommended by an Obama bipartisan commission on cybersecurity in late 2016. “One of the recommendations to President [Barack] Obama was that there was not enough focus on small and medium-sized businesses,” said retired IBM CEO and President Samuel Palmisano. “The initial objective of CRI was to follow-up on…
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McClatchy’s Julie Moos named Press Club Journalism Institute executive director
Julie Moos, managing director of news at McClatchy, will be the executive director of the National Press Club Journalism Institute (NPCJI), the institute's board announced Dec. 7. Moos will begin work at NPCJI on Jan. 7. As managing director of news at McClatchy, Moos led coaching and training for reporters and editors in 30 newsrooms. Programs included a wide range of subjects, such as fair use and audience-centered storytelling. She also led a real-time news team of reporters and editors who drive millions of readers to McClatchy products each month. Andy Pergam, McClatchy's vice president…
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Former Guardian editor: Journalism must be better
While the modern media landscape is marked by diminishing trust among readers and an uncertain future online, Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian’s former editor-in-chief, told a book luncheon audience at the National Press Club Dec. 7 that journalism needs to rise to the occasion by simply being better. It’s an endeavor at the heart of Rusbridger’s new book, Breaking the News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why it Matters, which he discussed with Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron. With that in mind, the two news veterans drew from The Guardian’s prominent work in recent years to parse…
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Post editor Baron uses Club's Fourth Estate Award dinner to call out Trump
Marty Baron, executive editor of The Washington Post, used the occasion of his receiving the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award Thursday to go after President Donald Trump's attacks on journalism and facts. “History tells us we can’t always rely on our leaders to safeguard free expression in the cause of truth,” Baron said after receiving the Club's highest honor with Dean Baquet, executive editor of The New York Times, at the 46th annual dinner. “Today, we face another threat arguably more pernicious. This one is against the very concept of truth itself." He said an assault on…
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Marvin Kalb: With a free press, you are going to be free
Speaking to an audience at the National Press Club on Thursday, Nov. 15, Marvin Kalb said President Donald Trump’s “attacks on the press are attacks on the foundation of democracy.” Kalb was discussing his book “Enemy of the People: Trump’s War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy.” Kalb explained that the term “enemy of the people” goes back to the time of the Roman Empire when calling someone an enemy of the people was prelude to executing that person. He said the term was also used to justify execution during the French revolution and by dictators…
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Legal experts caution House impeachment action, say wait for Mueller
Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives in January will need to determine the most prudent means to direct their newfound investigative powers. A panel of distinguished attorneys, moderated by former National Press Club President Donna Leinwand Leger Thursday and organized by Leinwand Leger and Headliners Team member Aaron Cohen, weighed in on what actions would be most effective and legally sound. Given the high bar of evidence needed for impeachment and the severe consequences of such action, panelists agreed that it would be premature for the House to go that route. “It’s…
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Immunotherapy could cure cancer within 10 years, physicians tell Newsmaker
Gary Gilliand and David Maloney, physicians at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, used a National Press Club Newsmaker event Nov. 1 to announce the opening of a Seattle immunotherapy clinic that will expand the number of patients in clinical trials of the treatment, which they think could cure cancer within the next decade. Immunotherapy is a form of cancer treatment that focuses on harnessing a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer, Gilliand said. Put simply, cellular immunotherapy is a process by which T-cells are extracted from patients, modified to attack cancer cells, and…
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Silicon Valley's Peter Thiel defends funding lawsuit against Gawker, support of Trump
Venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel told a packed National Press Club audience Oct. 31 that his only regret about funding a lawsuit against Gawker Media is that he wasn’t more transparent about being the person with the deep pockets financing the suit. Thiel's comments about the highly publicized suit, which led to the website's bankruptcy, came at a Speakers newsmaker event where he also defended his controversial support for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. That position has garnered criticism from Thiel’s Silicon Valley counterparts. Thiel, a cofounder of PayPal,…
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Raasch's Civil War book illuminates heroism, rise of war correspondent
The first day of the Battle of Gettysburg was still raging when New York Times correspondent Sam Wilkeson arrived to learn that his oldest son, Lt. Bayard Wilkeson, had been seriously wounded. Suddenly, Wilkeson’s mission was changed: to find his son while covering the horror and confusion of what would become the Civil War’s pivotal battle. This is the centerpiece story of "Imperfect Union: A father’s search for his son in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg" by St. Louis Post-Dispatch Washington correspondent Chuck Raasch. Although the battle and the war ended more than 150 years ago…
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