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`Lost' Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speech at Club to air, 7:30 pm Jan. 12
Excerpts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s National Press Club speech will be aired for the first time since they were delivered 53 years ago at a special event at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, in the ballroom. Admission is free, but reservations are required. In July 1962, Dr. King became the first African American to speak at the Club. An audio recording was made of the speech and filed away in the Club’s Archives and later transferred to the Library of Congress. No television footage of the speech in its entirety exists. The Club's History and Heritage Committee recently retrieved the…
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Learn how to interview sexual assault victims, 1 pm Jan. 8
Perhaps no task is as daunting for reporters than interviewing a victim of sexual assault. A panel of experts will address how best to avoid pitfalls that could compromise a good story or unnecessarily harm a victim at a National Press Club event at 1 p.m. Jan. 8 in the Zenger Room. Tickets are required to attend the session, which will last until 2:30 p.m. They are $5 for Club members and $10 for the public. Panelists will include journalist Kristen Lombardi of the Center for Public Integrity, author of an investigation award-winning investigation of sexual assaults on campus; Bruce Shapiro…
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Canada's Miss World contestant to speak at Club Luncheon Friday
Canada's Miss World contestant, Anastasia Lin. will speak at a Club luncheon on Friday, Dec. 18, a day before she was supposed to compete for the title in China but was denied a visa. Lin, who emigrated to Canada as an adolescent, has testified before Congress on human rights in China and written an op-ed on the topic in The Washington Post. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m., with remarks beginning at 1 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session ending at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $23 for Club members (NPC Members may purchase 2 tickets at this rate) and $37 for all other non-member tickets.…
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Estonia’s minister of foreign affairs at Newsmaker on Thursday
Estonia Minister of Foreign Affairs Marina Kaljurand will discuss world events from her country's point of view at a Newsmakers news conference at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Bloomberg Room. Prior to becoming minister in July, Kaljurand served as undersecretary for legal and consular affairs and undersecretary for political affairs. She has also served as Estonia’s ambassador to the U.S. and to Mexico. Like all Newsmakers events, this news conference is open to credentialed media and Club members, free of charge. No advance registration is required.
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Three former Club presidents to discuss the future of journalism Wednesday
Three former Club presidents, each with a different perspective on the industry, will talk about journalism's future at an event geared toward those entering it beginning at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Bloomberg Room. Immediate Past President Myron Belkind, 2013 President Angela Greiling Keane and 1994 President Gil Klein will share their thoughts on the development of journalism and what opportunities they may have in the future. The event is co-sponsored by the Club's Professional Development Committee and Georgetown University's School of Continuing Studies. Both Klein and Belkind now teach…
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This week in National Press Club history
Nov. 10, 2005: Club President Rick Dunham presents Austin H. Kiplinger, editor of the Kiplinger Letter for 30 years, with the Club’s Fourth Estate Award at a gala dinner packed with 300 friends and colleagues. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor receives a standing ovation before admitting that she “avoids the press like the plague and just got to know [Kiplinger] as a friend.” She bestows on him “The Supreme Court Seal of Approval (by a 5-4 decision)” and thanks him for “raising the bar in the Fourth Estate.” Hugh Sidey then remarks, “There are some people in the country who make it…
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Journalism Institute panel to offer tips on how to win a Pulitzer
Ahead of the Jan. 25 deadline for entering this year's Pulitzer Prize contest, the Club's Journalism Institute has assembled a panel of experts who've judged the contest and coordinated entries to give an inside look at the process. Come learn about the biggest prize in journalism. Panelists are former Philadelphia Inquirer editor Amanda Bennett, former co-chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board and a Pulitzer juror and winner; Jill Grisco, contest coordinator, The Washington Post; and Josh Meyer, Medill Washington lecturer and former Los Angeles Times reporter. The program will run from 9:30 a.m…
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Upcoming National Press Club luncheons
Dec. 16 – THIS EVENT IS IN THE HOLEMAN LOUNGEAlejandro Garcia Padilla, Governor of Puerto RicoTopic: TBATo purchase tickets click here Dec. 18 – THIS EVENT IS IN THE BALLROOMAnastasia Lin, Miss World CanadaTopic: human rights activist denied visa to compete in Miss World finals being held in China.To purchase tickets click here Jan. 11, 2016 – THIS EVENT IS IN THE HOLEMAN LOUNGEAdmiral John Richardson, Chief of Naval Operations, USNTopic: TBATo purchase tickets click here NPC luncheons are open to credentialed members of the media. Luncheon tickets are open to the public except where noted…
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Build Your Speaking Skills With Toastmasters at the National Press Club
Would you like to enhance your communication effectiveness and take your journalistic skills to greater heights? Get rid of those “uhms” and “ahs”? Tame your nerves when you speak in front of people? If so, consider joining the National Press Toastmasters Club. For less than the cost of three weekly cups of coffee, the Toastmasters program can help you enhance your public speaking presence and prepare you for any occasion you find yourself in front of an audience of any size. Toastmasters has been at the National Press Club for 31 years and has helped train many a distinguished speaker. One…
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AP correspondent Kathy Gannon describes threats to journalists in new podcast
The Middle East is becoming increasingly dangerous for journalists, and in this edition of Update-1 we hear from a correspondent who risks her life to tell stories from that region. Kathy Gannon has been covering Afghanistan and Pakistan for The Associated Press for nearly 30 years and was severely wounded last year when an Afghan police officer opened fire on her vehicle. Her colleague, AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus, was killed in that incident. Gannon describes how threats to journalists in the Middle East are changing, her methods for mitigating danger, and why she plans to return to…
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