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The National Press Club Broadcast Committee's podcasts are bringing the sound of press freedom and journalism issues to listeners worldwide. The committee produces 10- to 15-minute audio programs, or podcasts, offering insight into news, politics, entertainment and sports, as well as broader topics related to journalism, communications, freedom and transparency. They're a forum for listeners to learn more about newsworthy stories originating from the Club's facilities and issues discussed at Club events. Update-1, the official audio podcast of the National Press Club, is available on the Club…
Type: News
'Shocking the Conscience': Simeon Booker raps about book at National Press Club
Simeon Booker, the second African-American to become a National Press Club member, a Fourth Estate winner, a Golden Owl, the first African-American reporter for the Washington Post and Jet Magazine's White House correspondent for a half-century, discussed his book Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement at at an NPC Book Rap on April 9. Booker and his wife and co-author, Carol McCabe Booker, were interviewed about their book by Joe Madison, known to listeners of SiriusXM radio as “The Black Eagle.” Booker was one of the great reporters of the civil-rights…
Type: News
Scottish First Minister predicts independence from United Kingdom at Press Club Newsmaker
While Scotland -- if it achieves independence from the United Kingdom following the 2014 referendum on that issue -- "will never be a global superpower, it will be a good global citizen," Alex Salmond, the first minister of Scotland, told an April 10 National Press Club Newsmaker. An independent Scotland will carry with it far-reaching economic, legal, political and security consequences for all of the U.K., Salmond said Scotland, he said, would have to review its relationships with the rest of the world, including its priorities in foreign and diplomatic affairs and its memberships in…
Type: News
Successful innovators have Ninja qualities, CEA president says at National Press Club event
Today's most successful business innovators embrace the same qualities that defined the historical and mythical Ninja clans, including discipline, mission-oriented strategy, adaptability, decisiveness and a will to win, said Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association. Shapiro discussed his new book, Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World's Most Successful Businesses on April 3 at the National Press Club. As head of the Consumer Electronics Association and its influential annual trade show, the International Consumer Electronics Show, Shapiro has worked…
Type: News
Mayo Clinic CEO calls for reimbursement reforms at National Press Club Luncheon
Dr. John H. Noseworthy, president and chief executive officer of the Mayo Clinic, called for scrapping the current federal reimbursement system for Medicare and Medicaid patients at a National Press Club Luncheon address April 9 and replacing it with one that rewards health care providers who use the most effective and cost-efficent treatments. The U.S. "faces perhaps the most profound challenge in its history" regarding health care as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare," Noseworthy said. Congress and the administration should repeal the…
Type: News
NPC member raps about 'Color Blind: The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball’s Color Line'
Well before Jackie Robinson took to the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 becoming the first African-American to play Major League Baseball since a ban on black players had been imposed in 1880s, a semi-professional baseball team was integrated. National Press Club member Tom Dunkel appeared at an April 4 Book & Author Committee Book Rap to discuss his just-published first book, Color Blind: The Forgotten Team that Broke Baseball's Color Line. In Color Blind, Dunkel tells the story a baseball team in Bismarck, N.D., that was integrated during the 1930s. The book opens the door to a…
Type: News
Nestle executive forecasts growth in bottled water despite environmental concerns
The consumption of bottled water will overtake that of carbonated soft drinks in the next five or six years, according to Kim Jeffery, chairman of Nestle Waters of North America, at a National Press Club Newsmaker April 4. “The ascendancy of a water-drinking generation is one of the biggest things to happen in this country in the last 50 years, beginning now, ”Jeffery said. “Over 73 percent of America drinks bottled water.” Jeffery added, “while the percentage of Americans drinking soft drinks continues to decrease." “Bottled water is the only packaged beverage which has negatively affected…
Type: News
Jesuit says new pope shuns pomp, focuses on poverty
The election last month of Pope Francis represents a renewed focus from the Vatican on the Gospel’s basic teachings regarding poverty and humility, Father Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest, said at an April 3 National Press Club Newsmaker. The spartan life led by Francis as archbishop of Buenos Aires before becoming pope indicates that he will make poverty alleviation a centerpiece of his agenda, Reese said. The then-archbishop, whose birth name is Jorge Mario Bergoglio, reportedly turned down the bishop’s palace for his own apartment and commuted by bus rather than limousine. Bergoglio was at…
Type: News
Cummings pushes gun trafficking legislation
Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md, the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, urged “action” on gun legislation in Congress at an April 2 Newsmaker. He underlined the current dangers associated with gun trafficking and made the case for tough federal penalties aimed at “straw purchasers.” Cummings said, “Most Americans already think gun trafficking is a federal crime — but it’s not. They have no idea that there is no federal law targeting firearms traffickers who commonly use ‘straw purchasers’ to buy guns for convicted felons and other dangerous criminals who cannot…
Type: News
Post editors on Kalb Report: fighting for quality and revenue in the digital age
Two top Washington Post editors marveled at the new ways that technology allows newspapers to tell stories, but conceded they had little idea of how to deal with the financial pressures that are forcing the paper to make staff reductions. “We have new, powerful ways of storytelling; we can reach far more people,” Post Executive Editor Marty Baron told host Marvin Kalb on the “The Kalb Report” April 1. But he said the paper still has not turned the corner toward financial stability that will allow it to begin to rebuild the staff after severe cuts. “There’s no question that we have to cut…
Type: News