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TODAY, NOON: Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov to speak on human rights and press freedom in Russia, Belarus
Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov, the former World Chess Champion turned writer and political activist, will deliver a live address on the state of human rights and press freedom in his native Russia, as well as the related crackdown in Belarus, at a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker on Friday, Oct. 9, at noon. To download a calendar reminder or join the livestream on Oct. 9, click here. This one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the media and members of the general public free of charge. Viewers can send their questions for…
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Club Scholarship Awards Committee co-chairs discuss selection process on podcast
Gillian Rich and Alicia Mundy co-chair the Club's Scholarship Awards Committee. They talk about the selection process on an Update-1 podcast. As part of the National Press Club’s efforts to support the careers of future journalists, three annual scholarships are awarded to college students who plan to study journalism. Two of the awards, the Richard G. Zimmerman Journalism Scholarship and the Julie Schoo Award for Diversity in Journalism, are awarded to freshmen, while the Feldman Fellowship for Graduate Studies in Journalism is awarded to first-year graduate students. In this episode of…
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Help to #FreeAustinTice by Thanksgiving -- join letter-writing campaign
The family of award-winning journalist Austin Tice, who has been detained in Syria since 2012 while covering escalating conflict in the region, and the National Press Club Journalism Institute have launched a new campaign asking the White House to free Austin and bring him safely home by Thanksgiving. You can play a part by joining the letter-writing campaign, too!
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Today's Virtual Newsmaker on COVID-19 vaccine with NIH director POSTPONED
The National Press Club's virtual Newsmaker event with National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins will not be held today, Sept. 28, as scheduled. Due to a conflict with the Yom Kippur holiday, the event is postponed while the Club works to secure a new date.
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TONIGHT: Get Club food delivery discount, food for thought from two authors on books about Trump, Clinton probes
National Press Club board member Del Wilber continues his virtual COVID Conversations series at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Michael Schmidt and Devlin Barrett talking about their critically acclaimed new books exploring the tumultuous investigations into President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. To join the conversation, please email Wilber at [email protected]. On Oct. 4, he will send you instructions for joining the conversation over Zoom. Enhance your experience with a meal from the Club kitchen. The Club offers on-demand delivery via its online store…
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NIH director to update COVID-19 therapeutic, vaccine developments at Newsmaker, Friday
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., the 16th director of the National Institutes of Health, will deliver brief remarks and engage in a virtual Q&A on the latest COVID-19 therapeutic and vaccine developments and how the agency is helping to promote research and engagement in communities hardest hit by COVID-19, during a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23. This event was rescheduled from Sept. 28. This one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the media and members of the general public free of charge.…
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Virtual Book Rap features 'From Terrorism to Television' on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m.
National Press Club member Qaisar Abbas plans to discuss the book he co-edited with Farooq Sulehria at a Virtual Book Rap on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 7 pm. To receive an invitation to join the event, please email Heather Forsgren Weaver at [email protected]. The contents of From Terrorism to Television, Dyanamics of Media, State and Society in Pakistan includes chapters by "prominent and emerging journalists, as well as academic scholars from Pakistan, Australia, Britain and the United States," according to a press release about the book. The book dissects various contemporary…
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Club plans press conference to launch program to provide meals for Howard University Hospital staff, Sept. 24, 1 p.m.
The National Press Club plans to hold a news conference at 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, to launch Help The Heroes, a program designed to support frontline medical workers at Howard University Hospital by providing timely and convenient food assistance at the end of their shift. The news conference is expected be held in the NPC's Holeman Lounge. To attend the press conference in person please contact Lindsay Underwood at [email protected] This event also will be streamed live on the Club's website and YouTube Channel. Speakers include: Anita L.A. Jenkins, Howard University Hospital chief…
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Prize-winning photojournalist on homelessness, friendship with former NFL star at Oct. 5 Headliners Book Rap
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Ted Jackson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune plans to discuss his book You Ought To Do A Story About Me at a National Press Club Headliners Virtual Book Rap on Monday, Oct. 5, at 1 p.m. To join the Book Rap on Oct. 5 or download a calendar reminder, click here. The book chronicles the growth of Jackson's friendship with a drug-addicted former NFL star whom he first encountered sleeping under a bridge in New Orleans in 1990. After taking the photograph, Jackson woke the man to get his name. "You ought to do a story on me," the man told Jackson. When…
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Chaos-proof your 2020 election coverage with Sept. 25 game
The National Press Club Journalism Institute, the National Press Foundation, and the RAND Corporation have designed a new way for journalists to prepare for the unexpected in election 2020 news: Gaming your coverage plan. RAND gamemaster David A. Shlapak plans to present participants with scenarios based on current and likely events, and each team will make coverage decisions, not knowing what the next roll of the dice will bring. Registration is open for this free program, which will be held on Friday, Sept. 25, from 5-7 p.m. ET. The game should bring to the surface journalists’ assumptions…
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