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Luxembourg's ambassador shares priorities for EU presidency
As president of the Council of the 28-nation European Union, Luxembourg intends to focus on stimulating Europe's economy, Ambassador Jean-Louis Wolzfeld of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg told a July 10 Newsmaker. Luxembourg began its six-month presidency on July 1. Wolzfeld, who also is accredited as ambassador to Canada and Mexico and has been Luxembourg’s envoy to the UN and several other European and Asian countries, also explained the EU’s rotating presidency system. He said the rotation system of the EU Council of Ministers has been changed to a system of “team presidencies” comprised of…
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Washington Caps Coach: New roster additions fan hopes for playoff breakthrough
Fans of the Washington Capitals, frustrated in recent years over the team’s failure to advance beyond the early rounds of the National Hockey League playoffs, can hope for better things during the 2015-2016 season, Coach Barry Trotz intimated during a National Press Club luncheon speech July 8. Although stopping short of predicting outright improvement over the 2014-15 squad, which lost to he New York Rangers in the second round of the playoffs after finishing second in the regular-season standings, Trotz said the team is “moving in the right direction” toward its ultimate goal –- winning the…
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New Club Podcast Offers Advice for Communicators for Nonprofits
National Press Club members Shannon Fisher and Lisa Matthews discuss communications strategies for nonprofit organizations in the latest episode of Update-1, the Club's podcast. As vice president at Hager Sharp, a public relations firm representing mostly nonprofit clients, Matthews has a unique and well-rounded perspective on the topic. Prior to joining Hager Sharp, she was on the receiving end of nonprofit communications as a planning editor and assignment manager for The Associated Press. The two discuss the manner in which coverage of nonprofit news differs from that of for-profit…
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Mr. Perry Comes to Washington
With a few mild zingers Rick Perry told a National Press Club luncheon Thursday that what distinguishes him from the other Republican presidential candidates is that he is the only one with line military as well as executive experience. The former Texas governor and Air Force captain for the most part did not single out by name others of the multiple cast of candidates but he disassociated himself from Donald Trump's remarks about Mexican immigrants and he praised Carly Fiorina as a "particularly capable" executive. Without naming them, he singed fellow candidates Marco Rubio of Florida and…
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Cuba’s Minister of Public Health Discusses Cuba’s Progress in STD Treatment and Prevention
Dr. Roberto Morales, Cuba’s Minister of Public Health, discussed his country’s progress in sexually transmitted disease (STD) treatment and prevention at a National Press Club Newsmaker on Wednesday. Cuba is the first country in the world to receive certification from the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (WHO) that it eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. The international health organizations issued the certification to Cuba on June 30, following a March visit by a committee of independent experts and observers to Cuba to assess the…
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Social media expert guest on latest Update-1 NPC Podcast
In the latest edition of Update-1 NPC member Stephanie Gailhard interviews member Anthony Shop, chief strategy officer and co-founder of Social Driver. His digital agency launches websites and runs social media campaigns. The Agency 100 recognized it as the 7th fastest growing agency in the United States. “In terms of social media we’ve come a long way in a short amount of time,” said Shop. Social media continues to change the marketing landscape. “Marketing used to be about interrupting people. Now because of social media we get most of our information from our friends.” Advertisers are…
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Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times win awards in National Press Club journalism contest
The Wall Street Journal won first-place awards for consumer journalism and humor writing in the 2015 National Press Club Journalism Contest and The Seattle Times won a breaking news award for its comprehensive coverage of a deadly mudslide. Allan Sloan of Fortune Magazine won the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis for his groundbreaking investigation of a financial ploy known as inversion that is costing the U.S. Treasury millions of dollars. This year’s winner of the Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award was a project done by three organizations: InsideClimate News, The Weather…
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Experts advocate apprentice programs, citing Swiss experience
Nancy Hoffman, education reform spokesperson, Swiss Ambassador Martin Dahinden and Deputy Assistant Labor Secretary Eric Seleznow described apprenticeships that youths can use in place of -- or at the same time as -- regular academic programs at a National Press Club Newsmaker June 25 "These are much better than complaining about their boredom in high school," Hoffman said. She told of a 15-year-old whose room was a mess and whose parents had trouble getting her out of bed to go to school. Then the teenager learned of an apprenticeship program that changed her life. "Young people learn to…
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Advocate for LGBT community seeks culture in which it can live
Sara Kate Ellis, president and CEO of the nation's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) media advocacy group, GLAAD, said the organization seeks to create a culture in which that community can live. She spoke at a Press Club Newsmaker event June 22. Ellis discussed the pending U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, a same-sex marriage case regarding state recognition of legal out-of-state marriages. The high court could rule in one of three ways, Ellis said: It can legalize same-sex marriages in the entire country, it can require states that currently don’t recognize…
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Kalb Report wins top broadcasting award
For the second time, the National Press Club's premier forum, "The Kalb Report," won the Gold World Medal in the New York Festival's International Radio Awards Competition. Host Marvin Kalb and Executive Producer Michael Freedman accepted the award June 22 for their program last October that featured a rare joint appearance by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to talk about their Watergate investigation 40 years after the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon (watch the full interview here). That program, entitled “Writing History: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Journalism Finest Hour,”…
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