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Club perseveres through pandemic
The National Press Club has been knocked back but not knocked out by the coronavirus pandemic, Club leaders said at the Oct. 16 general membership meeting. National Press Club President Michael Freedman and Vice President Lisa Matthews emphasized the Club has remained active during the coronavirus pandemic by sponsoring many virtual news events, continuing its press freedom work and helping the local community. Photo: Tiina Kreek The Club closed its doors to in-person activities from March 16 until June 9. Since resuming dining, takeout and other services in late June, Club business…
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In politics as in chess, remember the big picture, former world champion turned human rights activist Kasparov says during Club Newsmaker
Russian-born human rights activist Garry Kasparov tells National Press Club President Michael Freedman that President Donald Trump calling the media "the enemy of the people" is more in line with the tactics of Soviet bloc strongmen Lenin or Stalin than with American political traditions. Photo credit: Alan Kotok It’s a chess maxim that attacking exposes oneself to risk. In the current political climate, however, inertia is no safer than being bold. That’s according to former world chess champion turned human rights activist Garry Kasparov, who spoke during a National Press Club virtual…
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Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist discusses how his art improved a life, at NPC book event
At age 29, Jackie Wallace left the Los Angeles Rams after playing in two Super Bowls over six seasons in the National Football League. Armed with a college degree, Wallace easily could have transitioned into coaching, teaching or a variety of other pursuits. Instead, he drifted into despair, falling into a spiral of drug addiction and homelessness that, a decade later, placed him under a bridge in New Orleans. During a National Press Club virtual Headliners Book event Oct. 5, the gripping narrative came to life one more time. National Press Club president Michael Freedman welcomes viewers…
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Politico founder, Washington Post reporter stress importance of credible journalism in supercharged election season
In the midst of a supercharged election season, Americans have been bombarded with a viciously fast-paced, never-ending news cycle and are reeling from a chaotic presidential debate. In a virtual event presented by the Rochester Beacon on Oct. 6, Politico founder and reporter John Harris, and Washington Post investigative reporter Tom Hamburger, discussed how now more than ever America needs credible national and local journalism to cut through the noise. The two Washington reporters grew up in suburbs of Rochester, New York, so they are familiar with the role of the local paper. Club member…
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Lincoln Project Republicans call Trump worst president in U.S. history, endorse Biden
Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt, co-founders of the Lincoln Project, (from left) talk with NPC Vice President Lisa Matthews during a Sept. 24 virtual Headliners Newsmaker event. Their PAC seeks to derail Donald Trump's campaign for re-election. Photos by D. Scott Graham Former Republican strategists Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt called President Donald Trump the worst president in American history and endorsed Trump’s opponent, Joe Biden, at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event Sept. 24. The two founded the Lincoln Project, a political action committee, in late 2019 to join…
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Jane Goodall wants everyone to make choices to protect Earth
Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist, chats with NPC President Mike Freedman during a Sept. 25 virtual Headliners event. Photo by Alan Kotok Jane Goodall, whose renowned study of chimpanzee behavior began six decades ago, developed her respect for animals even earlier. It was her relationship as a teen with a neighbor's mixed-breed dog, Rusty, that convinced her animals have personalities, minds and emotions. A photo of Rusty was prominent on a shelf behind her as Goodall, 86, chatted Friday with National Press Club President Michael Freedman from her home in the United Kingdom for a…
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Club launches Help The Heroes food delivery project to support Howard University Hospital staff
Anita L.A. Jenkins, Howard University Hospital chief executive, said the National Press Club is acting as a family would by launching Help The Heroes, an initiative that will deliver meals to hospital staff who are on the front lines in battling the novel coronavirus pandemic. “Have you eaten?” is a family thing to say, she said at a Sept. 24 press conference at the Club that formally kicked off the program. And when someone offers a meal, stressed and exhausted hospital staff knows they care, she said. "What you said to our heroes was 'Here’s a meal. We want you to be fed,'” Jenkins said. Ed…
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CNN's launch has led to speedy, less accurate information for cable news, author says at Press Club Headliners Book Rap
National Press Club President Mike Freedman welcomes viewers and introduces journalist Lisa Napoli, author of the new book, "Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN and the Birth of 24-Hour News" at a Headliners Virtual Book Rap on Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020. Photo: Alan Kotok CNN’s ushering in of the era of 24-hour cable television news and the speed of information spread has resulted in a sacrificing of accuracy, author Lisa Napoli warned at a National Press Club Headliners Virtual Book Rap on Tuesday. Napoli, whose book, Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN and the Birth of 24-Hour News, described how Ted…
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‘Stars aligned’ as protests highlighted racial issues, Washington Informer publisher says
Protests for racial justice amid the new coronavirus pandemic have combined to give real momentum to efforts for change, Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of the Washington Informer, said during a virtual National Press Club interview Thursday. Rolark Barnes, who has been publisher of the African-American news outlet since 1994, said that issues of police brutality and social unrest have been covered by Black newspapers for generations. But the lack of distractions for people who have seen their lives disrupted by the pandemic mean there is a renewed focus on these issues and has shone a light…
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Library of Congress moves National Book Festival online
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden tells National Press Club President Michael Freedman that the library has audio recordings of old radio programs, as well as original recordings of folk music by local musicians, made by folklorist Alan Lomax. Photo by Alan Kotok. The Library of Congress realized in March that its signature celebration, the National Book Festival, couldn’t take place in-person in a pandemic, Carla Hayden told a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker Friday. Instead, the head of the world’s largest library said its annual event would run online September 25-27 at www.loc.…
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