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Update-1 podcast covers Fijian cyclone’s impact on residents and media
Cyclone Winston, the worst storm ever recorded in the southern hemisphere, is the focus of the latest Update-1, the National Press Club’s podcast. Winston had sustained winds of 185 miles an hour and killed 42 people. It also destroyed thousands of homes in Fiji, left many people without water and electricity, and forced tens of thousands of Fijians to live in evacuation centers. As part of Update-1, Irshad Hussain, a radio station manager in Fiji, talks to Broadcast Committee member Irv Chapman about his experience surviving the category 5 storm. He was at the station when the cyclone hit…
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Beloved member and former National Press Club president Art Wiese dies, age 69
A message from NPC president Thomas Burr: It's with a heavy heart that we report today that former National Press Club President Art Wiese, a long-time supporter of the journalism craft, has passed away. Art was a friend to all and a valued member of the National Press Club and the journalism community at large. While we mourn his passing, we also celebrate his life achievements and his contributions to the world around him. Art was with us for just 69 years, and spent nearly 50 of those years in a career that spanned the fields of public affairs, communications and journalism. His journalism…
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Kalb Report: Judy Woodruff explains challenges of covering Trump’s unique campaign
Donald Trump is posing a major conundrum for the news media that is trying to figure out how to cover him, Judy Woodruff, co-anchor of the NewsHour on PBS, told host Marvin Kalb Wednesday night. “He is by definition a non-politician,” Woodruff said on the Press Club’s The Kalb Report. “So we’ve struggled to figure out how do you cover somebody who is so outspoken, who doesn't care what the Republican establishment thinks of him, takes on the news media directly, uses language that we sometimes can’t repeat on television.” And until just recently, Trump has not had much of a campaign staff…
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Amb. DeTrani sees N. Korea, cyber attacks as top U.S. security challenges
North Korea poses the "most serious" security threat facing the U.S. and its allies, Ambassador Joseph DeTrani, president of the Daniel Morgan Academy, told a packed audience at an April 21 meeting of the NPC's American Legion Post 20. DeTrani, a former president of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance and high-ranking CIA official, gave a sweeping tour of security challenges facing the nation. He noted that Kim Jong-un was ill-prepared to succeed his father as "supreme leader" of 25 million North Koreans in 2011. DeTrani, who held ambassadorial rank for the U.S. at the Six-Party…
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Commerce Secretary Pritzker defends Trans-Pacific trade pact at NPC luncheon
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, strongly defending the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, predicted it would be ratified by Congress this year despite criticism from the leading contenders for both the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations. “I think the window [for Congressional ratification] is this year," Pritzker said at a National Press Club luncheon April 18, adding "at the end of the day I think we will do the right thing.” She said support for the 12-nation agreement, signed by the Obama Administration in February, is “much stronger than reported in the…
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Women of the Senate inspire author to research, write book about female influence
Jay Newton-Small, Washington correspondent for Time Magazine, was inspired to her write Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works after writing a story about the women of the Senate coming together to end the federal-government shutdown of 2013, she told a National Press Club Book Rap April 13. That year marked the first time that the Senate had sworn in 20 female senators who went on to chair 11 of the 20 Senate committees. Those 20 women had achieved critical mass. Newton-Small marveled at their effectiveness despite still being a relatively small group. During her…
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Academy Award Winner Arquette discusses gender pay inequality at NPC Newsmaker
“Women in the United States of America are paid less than men in 98 percent of all industries,” said Academy Award-winner Patricia Arquette at a Newsmaker press conference at the National Press Club April 12. “This is not just an entertainment-industry problem. This is a disgrace. It’s a hidden, national gender and race tax that women shouldn’t have to pay.” The actor and gender pay-equity advocate joined Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, on Equal Pay Day to publicize findings from a report just released by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee’s Democratic staff on the gender-pay gap.…
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Panelists examine H-1B abuse during National Press Club Newsmaker
A Jamaican-born fashion model plans to refile her lawsuit against Trump Model Management arguing that she was paid only $3,380 in three years instead of the "promised" $75,000 annual wage, her attorney told a National Press Club Newsmaker April 8. "It shocked my conscience," said Naresh M. Gehi about the treatment of his client, Alexis Palmer. "We are not giving up," said the New York-based immigration lawyer who is refiling the case with the Department of Labor in New York. The New York-based immigration lawyer spoke on a panel about the uses and abuses of the H-1B guest worker visa program…
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Update-1 podcast explores space news
Update-1, the National Press Club’s podcast, revisits space industry news in light of recent developments at NASA, within the burgeoning private sector, and among international competitors. How will the 2016 election impact NASA funding and priorities? Will entrepreneurs like Richard Branson, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos continue to disrupt and innovate? What are the commercial and national security implications of a resurgent Russia, an ambitious China and others? NPC broadcast committee member Adam Konowe poses these and other questions to Ben Iannotta, fellow Club member and editor-in-chief of…
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Not an April Fools joke: Fire alarm disrupts Book Rap, Taco Night
The National Press Club's Taco Night and a Book Rap were disrupted on April 1, but it wasn't an April Fools joke. The Press Club was cleared out around 7:15 p.m. due to a fire alarm in the National Press Building. The origin of the emergency was not immediately clear. The commotion brought a halt to a Book Rap featuring CNN security analyst Peter Bergen. That event's audience of about 35 people as well as dozens of Taco Night attendees made their way downstairs and out to the 14th St. sidewalk to wait for authorities to evaluate the situation. "While the fire alarm was unfortunate, the Press…
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