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US Airways chief executive says merger with American would create world's ‘greatest airline'
The wave of consolidation in the airline industry has benefitted customers, employees and communties – and that would be particularly true of a proposed merger of US Airways and American Airlines when American comes out of its bankruptcy, said Douglas Parker, chairman and CEO of US Airways, at a National Press Club luncheon July 18. Even though bankruptcy can provide signficant financial advantages, it “cannot fix a revenue problem” like American has today, said Parker, the industry’s leading advocate of consolidation who has been publicly campaigning for a US Airways-American linkup for…
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Fourth Estate Award recipient and Club member William Raspberry dies at 76
William J. Raspberry, the retired Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and 2004 recipient of the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award, died Tuesday, July 17, at his Washington home. He was 76 and had battled prostate cancer for the past year. Raspberry was a 43-year employee of The Post, including more than 39 years spent as a columnist. At the time of his retirement at the end of 2005, his work was syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group to more than 200 newspapers, making him one of the nation's most prominent and respected African American journalists. In…
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Labor leaders plan summer rally
Labor groups will meet next month in Philadelphia to launch a campaign called "America'sSecond Bill of Rights," an effort to draw attention to the economic issues facing America workers, labor leaders said Thursday at a National Press Club Newsmakers event. "We once took many of these rights for granted," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said. "Now we're compelled to reassert the rights of people who work and we ask for the support of all Americans." Trumka, who was joined by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Edwin Hill, said that the platform seeks to guarantee full employment…
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Author of “My First Coup d’Etat” charms audience at National Press Club
John Dramani Mahama, vice President of Ghana, described his country's lost decade with moving personal stories in a discussion of his memoir, "My First Coup D'Etat," at a National Press Club Book and Author event Thursday. “Ghana’s independence triggered hope," he said. But those hopes were dashed by what is known as “lost decades," a period of turmoil with frequent, bloody upheavals and the overthrow Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president, he said. Mahama recalled the impact on his father, a cabinet member, who was imprisoned after the first Ghanian coup d’etat, but who later achieved…
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USS Cole commander gives gripping account of Al Qaeda suicide attack
"Before 9/11, there was 10/12," U.S. Navy Commander (ret.) Kirk Lippold told a National Press Club audience at a July 10 discussion of his book, "Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole." Lippold, former commander of the guided missile destroyer USS Cole, gave a gripping account of of Al Qaeda’s Oct. 12, 2000 suicide attack on his ship, 11 months before Al Qaeda attacked New York and Washington. The suicide attack from a barge that approached the ship blew a 40-foot by 40-foot hole in its port side. Lippold says he remembers grabbing his anchored desk to avoid being hurled through his…
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Bloomberg News, Arizona Republic, Associated Press, WGBH-TV among Press Club winners
Bloomberg News won a top award for political analysis for its examination of Super PACS, while The Arizona Republic and The Associated Press shared the honors for the Club's first breaking news award for print in the 2012 National Press Club journalism competition. A team of Bloomberg reporters won the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis with their work on Super PACs. The Arizona Republic was cited as co-winner of the Breaking News Award for its coverage of the Tucson mass shooting that left six dead and twice that many wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The AP was…
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Interventions can halt spread of violence, CeaseFire director says
Societal violence behaves like a contagious disease, but can be prevented and curbed with intervention, panelists from CeaseFire and the American Islamic Congress said at at a National Press Club Newsmaker June 28. CeaseFire executive director Dr. Gary Slutkin, a former World Health Organization epidemiologist and a professor at University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, said violence, whether gang-related, tribal or anti-government, spreads as a neurological and emotional disease. Prevention or intervention involves detection, creating conflict interrupters and reasons to alter…
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National Press Club offers condolences on death of NPC scholarship winner Armando Montano, 22
The National Press Club is saddened to learn of the untimely death of Armando Montano, the recipient of the club's Ellen Masin Persina scholarship in 2008. He was 22. ``We remember Armando as a vibrant young man with so much promise,'' said National Press Club President Theresa Werner. ``We would like to extend our sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.'' Armando used his scholarship to study at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. While on an internship in Washington last summer, Armando visited the Club regularly and participated in the Club's annual 5K run, where he…
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Panelists See Need for New Products, Models in Journalism
DES MOINES, Iowa – New thinking in how to attract advertisers will be essential to regenerating the income necessary to keep quality journalism alive, leading news executives said at a National Press Club forum at Drake University Wednesday. “The business model is clearly broken,” said Laura Hollingsworth, publisher of the Des Moines Register, part of the Gannett Co. that announced this week another 10 percent cut in personnel. Supporting quality reporting and investigative projects is the essential piece of what the company is doing, she said, but it is only one piece. The vision for the…
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In a Changing Market, News Organizations Need Freedom to Innovate, Journalists Tell NPC Forum
MILWAUKEE – The editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says he is able to succeed because the paper's local ownership gives him the ability to make changes quickly and to concentrate on what he thinks will work. Marty Kaiser, the paper’s editor in chief, said he could make the decisions to keep an emphasis on investigative reporting and to make quick changes to take advantage of the Internet because he did not have to wait for approval from a corporate headquarters. “It gives us great freedom in our newsroom to do the kinds of things that we want to do and also to…
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