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HUD Secretary Announces Help for Distressed Mortgage Borrowers
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston announced new federal efforts to help distressed borrowers refinance their mortgages at a Club luncheon Nov. 19. Preston said changes to the HOPE for Homeowners program will reduce costs and expand eligibility for consumers and lenders alike. More homeowners will be able to get fixed-rate 40-year mortgages under a simplified progress. Despite the changes, Preston said, Congress needs to make statutory revisions to help HUD and its Federal Housing Administration help lenders and borrowers deal with the current mortgage crisis. He…
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New Model for Journalism, But Threats to First Amendment
SAN DIEGO – The Voice of San Diego, an online news and investigative reporting service, provides a new model for delivering serious journalism, a National Press Club forum was told Tuesday. But new online journalism combined with the decline in resources for traditional media are threatening First Amendment and freedom of information rights. “Our whole purpose in being formed was to treat journalism as a public service,” said Scott Lewis, executive editor of the Voice of San Diego. “What we will do is raise enough money to provide that public service. But the days of lining the pockets of…
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Club Salutes Journalists Who Risked Their Lives
The Club hosted some of the most courageous journalists in the world at an event Nov. 20. The Club’s Press Freedom Committee co-sponsored an annual news conference with the Committee to Protect Journalists to tell the stories of the reporters who will receive the CPJ’s 2008 International Press Freedom Awards on Nov. 25 in New York City. John M. Donnelly, the Club Board of Governors’ vice chairman and its liaison to the Press Freedom Committee, kicked off the press conference by saying that press freedom is a core mission of the Club. Then came the words of men and women who risk their lives…
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Foreign Correspondents Assess Obama Victory
Barack Obama’s victory was proof of the American dream, a nation where everything is possible, foreign correspondents said during a discussion Nov. 19 about the view of the U.S. election through the eyes of other countries. A panel of foreign correspondents, organized by the Club’s International Correspondents Committee, discussed the foreign reaction to Obama’s election and anticipation for its impact on foreign affairs in a forum organized by the International Correspondents Committee. Kyodo News correspondent Hiroki Sugita said foreign governments can no longer criticize U.S. democracy…
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NPC Roasts and Toasts Christiane Amanpour, 2008 Fourth Estate Award Winner
The 300 people who attended Friday's Fourth Estate Award dinner for Christiane Amanpour of CNN knew they were going to see one of the world's great journalists receive the National Press Club's highest honor -- but they didn't know they were going to see Madeleine Albright do stand-up comedy. The former secretary of state stole the show at the dinner, regaling the "elites" in the audience and noting that the National Press Club must be anti-American -- because it chose to call itself the National Press Club rather than the American Press Club. That was just one of countless memorable moments…
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Kazakh Official: Good Relations with U.S. to Continue
The Chairman of the Committee for International Affairs, Defense and Security of the Lower House of Parliament of Uzbekistan told a Nov. 21 Newsmaker that good relations with the U.S. are one of his Central Asian country's “highest foreign policy priorities” and that he thinks those ties will continue on a positive note under an Obama administration. Nurbakh Rustemov noted that President-elect Obama had called Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Mr. also told the audience that the former Soviet republic supports President Bush's policy of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, and that it…
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Ike Pappas Interview Available Legendary radio and television journalist Ike Pappas, a correspondent for CBS News for 23 years, covered a variety of history-shaping events throughout
Legendary radio and television journalist Ike Pappas, a correspondent for CBS News for 23 years, covered a variety of history-shaping events throughout the world: The civil rights movement, the Vietnam and Six Days wars, and the Apollo 11 flight to the moon, among many others. Pappas died in September at 75. Among the countless stories he reported, Pappas will forever be remembered as the reporter who shouted "Oswald has been shot!" as he saw Jack Ruby murder Lee Harvey Oswald just inches away, days after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963. Pappas provides a…
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U.S. Launches Public Diplomacy Initiative
The State Department will conduct an online video contest designed to “amplify U.S. public diplomacy using web-based outreach campaigns and social media platforms,” Goli Ameri, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, said at a Dec. 1 Newsmaker. "Our new ExchangesConnect, hosted on the Ning platform, is designed to be the digital foundation for the alumni of our exchange programs, youth audiences and other groups around the world interested in international dialogue,” Ameri said. She said the State Department “has been actively engaged in a broad effort to use…
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The News Biz: The Best of Times, the Not-so-Best of Times, Panel Says
INDIANAPOLIS – Dennis Ryerson, editor of the Indianapolis Star, has been in the newspaper business 38 years. “I’ve never been so frustrated,” he told an audience in Indianapolis Tuesday. “But I’ve never been as energized.” Ryerson said the economic challenges of the newspaper industry are undeniable, but the opportunities are bountiful to reshape newspapers, use different technologies, reach readers in ways that dramatically affect their lives. Ryerson was one of four panelists at one of the National Press Club’s forums on “The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of…
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Colliding Auto, Media Crises Challenge Michigan News Outlets
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Despite cutbacks in news staff and a sharp decline in revenue, Detroit news leaders told a National Press Club forum they are rallying staffs to cover the automobile industry crisis with all they have. Changes in technology are providing new ways to reach people, they said, but the demands the technology is putting on reporters are burning them out. And, the panelists said, they worry about which news organizations can survive a long-term economic downturn. “Does it cause a strain? You know it does,” said Jonathan Wolman, editor and publisher of the Detroit News, said of…
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