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Club keeps pressing for answers about Austin Tice, establishes The Freedom Clock
Despite support for his release from President Donald Trump, journalist Austin Tice remains detained in Syria, and the National Press Club is continuing to help lead the push for his freedom. Trump on Friday, Aug. 14, called on the Syrian government to help find Tice and bring him home. The day marked Tice’s eighth year of being held in the country, a record length of time for a U.S. reporter’s detention on foreign soil. On Friday, the National Press Club highlighted the anniversary by establishing in its lobby The Freedom Clock that will record the time Tice remains captive. Tice, a Marine…
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Lessons from Montgomery bus boycott can be applied today, author Karen Gray Houston says
NPC President Michael Freedman presents journalist and author Karen Gray Houston with a commemorative National Press Club coffee mug as a thank you gift, held for her to retrieve when conditions permit. Photo by Alan Kotok Lessons from the historic, year-long bus boycott that began in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 apply to the civil rights protests underway in U.S. cities, veteran journalist Karen Gray Houston said Thursday at a National Press Club virtual book rap. Houston, who explores the “unsung heroes” of the civil rights movement in her book, “Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a…
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'Just do the damn job,' legendary anchor Dan Rather advises journalists in wide-ranging talk
Building trust with the audience is the most important thing a television news anchor can do, veteran news anchor Dan Rather told National Press Club President Michael Freedman in a webcast interview Wednesday. Rather, 88, who became a CBS News correspondent in 1962, was at the center of major news events, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal before becoming anchor of CBS News in 1981, a position he held for 24 years.
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White House reporter describes covering campaign and mentoring during pandemic
McClatchy's Francesca Chambers Francesca Chambers, White House reporter for the McClatchy newspaper chain, is worried about this year's crop of aspiring journalists "doing their internships from home" because of COVID-19 restrictions. She's concerned that new graduates won't have opportunities to make contacts among seasoned pros. Chambers, who chairs the White House Correspondents' Association scholarship committee, is also concerned about raising tuition money usually gathered from the group's annual awards dinner ticket sales and related donations. If you can call the White House…
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Author Lesley M.M. Blume calls the Hiroshima bombing most covered and covered up stories ever
Journalist and author Lesley M.M. Blume outlines the generally supportive coverage in American media at the time given to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Photo by Alan Kotok. The U.S. Army took extreme steps to keep much of the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima under wraps, journalist and author Lesley M.M. Blume said Wednesday at a National Press Club virtual book rap. “The Hiroshima bombing was heavily covered, but due to U.S. Amy control it was also one of the most covered up stories," Blume told Club President Michael Freedman, who moderated the…
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Enigmatic First Lady Melania Trump is fiercely independent, intensely private, biographer Mary Jordan says
Washington Post correspondent and author Mary Jordan reveals the influence Melania Trump played in the choice of Mike Pence as Donald Trump's running mate. Photos by Alan Kotok. Mary Jordan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at The Washington Post, interviewed the head of the Japanese crime syndicate, the yakuda, when she was reporting from Japan. Stationed in Mexico, she spoke for hours with the head of a Mexican drug cartel. The one person she couldn't get an interview with: First Lady Melania Trump, the subject of her newest book, "The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania…
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How editors can instill resilience amid pandemic and economic anxiety
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robyntomlin/">Robyn Tomlin</a>, McClatchy Southeast regional editor, and<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-wilson-7a2a77142/"> Mike Wilson</a>, editor of The Dallas Morning News, shared their experiences in an online program organized by the National Press Club Journalism Institute and moderated by <a href="https://twitter.com/JillGeisler">Jill Geisler</a>, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership & Media Integrity and Loyola University Chicago Freedom Forum Fellow in Women’s Leadership.<br />…
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Club suspends in-person services through May 16
The National Press Club Board of Governors voted Monday night, April 20, to extend the Club’s suspension of in-person activities through May 16 in response to the continuing coronavirus pandemic. The decision is in alignment with Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel E. Bowser's order requiring the closure of all non-essential businesses and prohibiting gatherings of 10 or more people through May 15. The Club will continue to pay its staff through this period. The board move is the third time it has taken action since mid-March to halt most Club operations. “We offer our heartfelt thanks to our…
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Journalists reveal how they take their private grief public in times of loss at Institute event
Veteran journalists Keith Woods and Tom Huang explained their approach to writing about deeply personal loss in a lively online conversation Friday with the National Press Club Journalism Institute. “Grief and writing for me are intertwined,” said Huang, assistant managing editor for The Dallas Morning News Journalism Initiatives. He writes of losing his mother and caring for his ailing father in this pandemic: “I need to write things down to discover my emotions, things about myself, and how I’m relating to the people I love.” Introducing the webinar, “Writing through: Grieving together,…
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Nationals' radio broadcasters link up for ‘Virtual Opening Day’
If in February, you had asked Washington Nationals radio broadcasters Charlie Slowes and Dave Jageler what they were going to be doing on April 14, their answer would have been to be broadcasting the game between the World Series champions and the Mariners from Seattle. Instead, Slowes and Jageler were each home with headsets on while National Press Club President Michael Freedman interviewed them via video link in an event billed as “Virtual Opening Day." Washington Nationals radio broadcasters Charlie Slowes (middle) and Dave Jageler (right) joined National Press Club President for…
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