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Tribute to a great war correspondent on the 75th anniversary of his death
Ernie Pyle (center with goggles) and a crew from the US Army’s 191st Tank Battalion at the Anzio Beachhead in 1944 Photo: US Army combat photographer – U.S. Army Center of Military History As his fleet tug steamed by le Shima Island off Okinawa in the Pacific near the end of World War II, my father wrote in his journal, “where Ernie Pyle was killed.” That was just one tiny indication of how revered this Scripps-Howard war correspondent was at the time he was killed 75 years ago April 18 by a Japanese machine gunner on this island. Many journalists are admired for the work they have done,…
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AMA president urges stay at home and shelter in place orders in holdout states
American Medical Association President Patrice A. Harris called for expanding stay-at-home and shelter-in-place orders to address the threat of COVID-19 virus during an online National Press Club Newsmaker event Tuesday. Dr. Patrice Harris, president of American Medical Association, describes the key role of scientific evidence in medical decision-making. Photo: Alan Kotok She enumerated what is known of the virus, which has produced a worldwide pandemic. It is transmitted primarily by person to person close contact, she said. Anyone, she emphasized, can be infected, but seniors and those…
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Stacey Abrams touts 2020 census despite COVID-19 at NPC Virtual Newsmaker
Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s first major party African-American gubernatorial candidate, reminded a National Press Club online audience Wednesday that the 2020 census, even during a historic pandemic, helps determine how much funding each state gets and how many seats in Congress for this decade. The census, she said, gives Americans political and financial power. “We have to have an accurate count,” she said during a Club Virtual Newsmaker event, and must dispel fears that census forms can be harmful. They can’t. “Information is confidential and safe,” she said. Because COVID-19 halted in-person…
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Club extends suspension of in-person services to April 27
The National Press Club board of governors voted unanimously Wednesday night, March 25, to extend the Club’s suspension of in-person services through at least April 27 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The move adds several more weeks to the original partial Club shutdown from March 17 through March 30 that the board approved at a March 16 meeting. The board also voted to give Club management the authority to pay staff up to and including full-time pay to work at home and follow best practices regarding safety and health during the extended suspension period. In a message to members,…
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Club helps older members, community during pandemic
Kate Helster is taking her job as National Press Club membership director seriously as the Club contends with the shutdown during the coronavirus pandemic. She and her husband, Nathan, delivered the first supply of food to an older Club member who took advantage of the Club’s new plan to assist members reluctant to go out. “We can’t offer our members a physical location where they can gather,” she said. "What we can offer our members is a sense of community and what they need right now.” While the Clubhouse doors are closed, the staff and Board of Governors are looking for ways to keep…
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Local health departments working to protect the nation from COVID-19
As COVID-19 spreads across the United States, local public health departments find themselves on the front lines trying to protect communities from this latest version of the coronavirus, George Roberts Jr. told a National Press Club audience Friday. National Press Club president Mike Freedman asks a question of George Roberts Jr., president of NACCHO. Photo: Alan Kotok The National Association of County and City Health Officials has nearly 3,000 affiliates, and Roberts, its president, describes them as “the boots on the ground” in the fight against SARS-CoV-2, as the virus is named,…
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Club wins “lifetime” award
The National Press Club has been awarded the New York Festivals' Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented to Club President Michael Freedman on April 21 during at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas. For the Club, of course, a “lifetime” is all 112 years of the Club’s existence. “For over a century, the National Press Club has upheld responsible journalism, supported freedom of the press worldwide, and provided a forum for the exchange of substantive ideas in our nation’s capital,” said Rose Anderson, vice president and executive director of NYF’s TV…
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Vaccination hesitation could cause pandemic to linger
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Dr. Francis Collins warned a virtual National Press Club audience on Oct. 23 that U.S. efforts to eradicate COVID-19 could be significantly delayed if large portions of the American public refuse an eventual vaccine. “If only 50% of Americans are interested in taking it, we’re never going to get to that point of immunity across the population where COVID-19 goes away,” Collins said during a virtual Newsmakers event. “It could be here for years.” National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins (r) said Americans have an individual…
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Historic handoff: Club obtains Murrow's BBC mic, 'Holy Grail' of broadcast journalism
On a sunny and crisp fall morning this past Saturday, at a rest stop on New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway, the son of legendary CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow presented National Press Club President Michael Freedman with what Freedman called “the Holy Grail of broadcast journalism.” National Press Club President Michael Freedman calls renowned CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow's BBC microphone the 'Holy Grail' of broadcast journalism. Casey Murrow, whom Freedman awarded a lifetime Club membership during his inaugural gala in January, honored that recognition by donating to the Club several…
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Hint CEO recounts how, with no experience, she overcame fear to build a hot, new beverage company
Entrepreneur Kara Goldin may be one of InStyle’s 2019 “Badass 50” and one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business," but in starting her own now hugely successful company she often found herself uncertain of her ability to succeed, she said in an Oct.19 National Press Club Headliners Book Event event moderated by Kimberly Adams, a member of the Club's Board of Governors. Goldin wrote her book, “Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters” as both a memoir and a source of advice for people hesitant to live their dreams. Her journey started 15 years ago, Goldin said, when she was an…
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