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Club Member Witnesses Plane's Crash Landing
NPC member Joe Enoch (2008 recipient of the Berny Krug Award for his work as co-chairman of the Events Committee) now works for Inside Edition in New York. Here are excerpts from an email he sent yesterday: I saw that plane descend from my office and ended up shooting footage of survivors on the plane's wing in the Hudson and later being carted off in stretchers. I was on the phone with my boss, Bob Read, when he went silent mid-sentence. A few seconds later he asked, "Do you see that plane?" I rush to the window when it comes into view. It was surreal. From my 13th floor vantage point, it…
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News Outlets "Fighting for Survival," Yet Young People Seek Jobs in News
NEW & NOTEWORTHYPosted by Ryan Howell - 01/19/2009 | Email the editorNews Outlets "Fighting for Survival," Yet Young People Seek Jobs in News For the Club’s Centennial, you sent me across the nation to hold forums on the First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of Journalism. At every stop, I gathered leading journalists from print, broadcast and the Internet as well as journalism scholars and First Amendment authorities. In all, our project involved about 130 journalism experts and reached 38 live audiences in 35 states and the District of Columbia as well as thousands more…
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Leinwand Accepts President's Gavel
Despite temperatures that dipped to 10 degrees, more than 80 NPC Members turned out for the annual membership Meeting on Friday to review "an extraordinary Centennial year" under outgoing President Sylvia Smith and to prepare for a "challenging" 2009 led by new President Donna Leinwand. Against a backdrop of unprecedented difficulties facing the journalism profession, with continuing job losses and threatened newspaper closures, there was a common theme throughout the meeting that the state of the National Press Club is strong, with year-end profits of $370,237 compared to $203,507 in 2007…
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Hamas Can't be Rearmed, Israeli Foreign Minister Says at Newsmaker
Halting the rearmament of Hamas, the militant government that controls Gaza, is crucial to a cease fire, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said at a Newsmaker Friday at the Club. She was in Washington to meetd with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to sign an accord with the U.S. aimed at halting weapons smuggling across Egypt's border with Gaza. "The last thing that we want to see is rearmament of Hamas after the military operation," Livni said at the Newsmaker. "The right of Israel to self-defense includes not only the moment in which Israel is being targeted, but also when there is a…
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Initiation Waiver Extended; 84 New Members Welcomed into Club
The waiver of the initiation fee for new Club members will continue through 2009. The Board of Governors approved continuing the waiver, which was originally implemented during the Club’s Centennial year, at its first meeting of 2009 on Friday following the membership meeting. Membership Secretary Mark Hamrick said the waiver had proved to be “a very successful recruitment tool.” The Board also approved the applications of 84 new members: ActiveDonghui Yu - The China Press, Chief Correspondent; Glenn Marcus – Freelance, Producer/Writer; Jane Hautanen - Salem Communications, Station Services…
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McConnell Pledges Cooperation, Predicts Prompt Stimulus Passage
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, Senate Republican leader, echoed President Barack Obama’s inaugural pledge of bipartisanship at a Jan. 23 Club Luncheon but didn’t hesitate to make his own points as well. He expressed disapproval of the plan to close the Guantanamo prison and advocated loans, not grants, to states in the stimulus package. McConnell reminded the audience why the president needs Congressional cooperation: He can’t sign a bill until Congress passes it or spend money unless Congress appropriates it. Of the issues on which Republicans can cooperate with Congressional Democrats and the…
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Newspaper Plight on NPR
The state of (financial) affairs in the news biz was the subject of an NPR Marketplace story on Wednesday. Gil Klein, former Club president who spent last year conducting panel discussions nationwide on behalf of the Club to assess the changes in the industry and how they affect the First Amendment, was interviewed. Here's a link: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/01/28/pm_dc_newslet…
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Leinwand Sworn in as 102nd President; Club Celebrates at "Hurricane Donna"
More than 300 people attended "Hurricane Donna" Saturday night to celebrate Donna Leinwand's swearing-in as the Club's 102nd president. Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz administered the oath of office, which Leinwand took with her hand on a military helmet (reflecting her many reporting assignments in Iraq and other war zones). Guests dined on sirloin steak, drank copious amounts and roared with laughter at the witty barbs of poliical satarist Mark Russell. Ken Paulson, in his last moments at the editor of USA Today (Donna's employer), delighted the audience with his cheerleading of…
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It's Buy a Newspaper Day Today
About a month ago, a member of Facebook was feeling discouraged about the state of the newspaper industry. He came up with an idea: Buy a Newspaper Day. As things do on Facebook, the idea took off, and Buy a Newspaper Day got 5,437 "yes" RSVPs. You don't have to be a Facebook member or have replie "yes" to join this show of support for on-paper newspapers. Buy one today. (Better yet: Subscribe!) If you'd like to read how this all came about, here it is: ORIGINAL POST As the economy continues to deteriorate, one of the industries that is going to be most severely affected is the American…
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Rep. Barbara Lee: "Second Name is Courage," Helen Thomas Says
A Book Event happened on the way to the White House. Rep. Barbara Lee, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, was called to the White House by President Obama for a meeting shortly before her scheduled C;ub appearance on Wednesday to discuss her new book, “Renegade for Peace and Justice: Congresswoman Barbara Lee Speaks for Me”. In a gracious gesture, she said she would be a little late to the meeting in order to keep her Press Club commitment. Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas introduced her longtime friend with the explanation, “Courage is her second name.” Thomas spoke…
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