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Board Honors Aldrich, Miller for Service to "Record"
The Board of Governors honored Lorna Aldrich and Bill Miller on Monday night for their "extraordinary and dedicated services" to the National Press Club in writing, editing and laying out the Club's newsletter, the Record. President Donna Leinwand described the two editors as "absolute stalwarts who were always cheerful and dedicated" as she introduced a resolution that the Board unanimously adopted at its monthly meeting. The Board gave a champagne toast to Aldrich and Miller, who expressed their thanks for the support and assistance they had received from NPC presidents and Club members…
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Club Members Elected to Leadership Posts for Regional Reporters
The Regional Reporters Association has re-elected a slate of officers and board members, many of them National Press Club members. NPC member Thomas Burr of the Salt Lake Tribune was re-elected president. Other Club members elected RRA officers are Vice President Joe Morton of the Omaha World Herald and Secretary Lisa Mascaro of the Las Vegas Sun. Among the at-large directors elected were Club members Alex Daniels of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette;Todd Gillman of the Dallas Morning News; Michael Coleman of the Albuquerque Journal; Paul Merrion of Crain’s Chicago Business; Keith Chu of Western…
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Islamic Conference Head Wants to Help US-Muslim Relations
The Organization of the Islamic Conference wants to help "open channels" between the United States and the Muslim word, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told a June 23 Newsmaker. The Egyptian-born Turkish academic also said he hopes President Obama will follow President Bush's move in appointing a prominent Muslim as the U.S. representative in this area. The OIC is the second largest intergovernmental organization -- after the UN -- with 57 member countries and five observer in four continents. Established in Morocco in l969, its headquarters are in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Major…
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Please Welcome 39 New NPC Members
The Board of Governors approved 39 membership applications Monday, bringing to 227 the total so far this year, compared to 197 for the same period last year.The new members are: ActiveMary Ann Gomez - National Association of Hispanic Publications, Executive Director; Dennis Noone – Gannett, Washington Editor; Junji Tachino - Asahi Shimbun, Correspondent/Bureau Chief; Ann Wog - 630 WMAL (Citadel), Producer - Grandy & Andy Morning Show; Tetsuro Yamada - The Yomiuri Shimbun, Staff CorrespondentActive ReinstatementJoyce Winslow – Freelance JournalistActive Non-ResidentJ. Dale Debber, Granite…
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Baseball's Woeful Nationals Poised to Contend, Kasten Says
Despite its 20-49 won-loss record -- worst by far in the major leagues -- the Washington Nationals baseball team is “not far from just being competitive, but contending” for a championship, its president, Stan Kasten, told a Club Luncheon Thursday. “I continue to be optimistic about where we’re headed,” said the Nationals’ top executive, who echoed the rosy remarks he made in a previous NPC Luncheon appearance soon after taking his job three years ago. “We are on course.” That course, he said, “is to develop young pitching.” Rather than acquiring pitchers through trades or free agency, he…
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FASB Chairman Says Transparency Key to Sound Financial System
“One welcome development that has arisen from the financial crisis is that a broader constituency is calling for greater transparency as necessary ingredient for recovery and the rebuilding of investor and public confidence,” said Robert Herz, chairman of the influential Financial Account Standards Board, at a June 26 Club luncheon. While accounting did not cause the crisis and improvement of standards will not end it, Herz said, “it did reveal a number of areas requiring improvement of standards and overall transparency.” Transparency, Herz said repeatedly in his hour-long speech, is the…
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Economist, Environmentalist Extol Pollution Offsets
An economist and an activist called pollution “offsets” an effective and efficient way to cut greenhouse gases and praised a climate change bill approved last week by the House that includes them in a cap-and-trade system at a June 30 Newsmaker. A company, organization, government or individual that is producing pollution can buy carbon-offset credits that finance projects elsewhere that bolster the environment. Robert H. Frank, a professor of economics and management at Cornell University, dismissed criticism that offsets are “indulgences” that enable polluters to continue harmful practices…
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Smithsonian Chief Discusses Going Digital at NPC Luncheon
G. Wayne Clough, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, told a luncheon audience July 1 that the Smithsonian is quickly entering the digital age, opening vast portions of its 137 million item collection to anyone with a computer. “We have the capacity to tell the story of American and all its hopes, struggles, triumphs, creativity, contradictions and courage,” said Clough, former president of Georgia Institute of Technology who has just completed one year at the helm of the 163-year-old museum. “Today we have the opportunity to reach people with this story in ways not previously imaginable…
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Kosovo Making Strides, Foreign Minister Says
Since declaring independence 16 months ago, Kosovo -- whose population is mostly ethnically Albanian -- has taken major steps to establish "democratic and accountable institutions in which all citizens are equal under the law," the country's minister of foreign affairs told a June 30 Newsmaker. Skender Hyseni, who is also a member of parliament, said his country is building its diplomatic service and by the end of the year will have 18 embassies and nine consular missions open and fully functioning. Hyseni said Kosovo has been recognized by 60 countries, including 22 EU member states, and…
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WaPo Magazine Profiles Club Member Nell Minow
Club member Nell Minow is the subject of a Washington Post Magazine profile in the July 5 edition. It begins: "Nell Minow has two lives. By day, she's a sharp-tongued, widely quoted expert on executive compensation and shareholder rights for a firm called the Corporate Library. But she's also known to hundreds of thousands of online followers and radio listeners as Movie Mom." To read the article, visit: http://tinyurl.com/kwk45d To read a transcript of her on-line chat, visit: http://tinyurl.com/ldxcyf
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