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P90x's Tony Horton to lead P90X Boot Camp workout, Sept. 3
Are you ready to BRING IT? Tony Horton, celebrity trainer and creator of P90X returns for the 2015 Beat the Deadline 5K with the P90X Bootcamp Workout on Sept. 3 at 6:30 pm. The event is part of a week of activities leading up to the 18th Annual National Press Club Beat the Deadline 5K on Saturday, Sept. 5. Horton will serve as honorary race marshal. Horton will also lead a pre-race warm up at 7:15 a.m. The race begins at 7:30 a.m. All proceeds from workout and 5K go to the scholarship and educational efforts of the National Press Club Journalism Institute. The public is welcome to attend…
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LA mayor to discuss city’s new $15 minimum wage, water conservation and immigration initiatives on Wednesday
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, whose administration has reduced his city’s unemployment rate by 3.2% by adding 85,000 new jobs and registering 60,000 new businesses over the past two years, will explain the impact of the city's new $15 minimum wage at a Newsmakers news conference on Wednesday, July 15 at 10 a.m. in the Zenger Room. Garcetti will address two additional topics: How local governments can address immigration reform while Congress remains deadlocked on the issue. Garcetti will outline his city’s “Step Forward LA” campaign, which has raised nearly $4 million to help 100,000…
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Celebrate journalistic excellence Wednesday, July 29 at the National Press Club
Plan a night of celebrating the best in journalism -- the National Press Club's 42nd Annual Journalism Awards dinner on Wednesday, July 29 -- one of the Club’s highlight events of the year. The winners of the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award will be honored at the dinner. The Aubuchon award recognizes those whose work has demonstrated the courage that lies at the heart of a free press. The club will give American freelance reporter Austin Tice, who has been detained in Syria since 2012, and Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter detained in Iran, Aubuchon Press Freedom awards at the…
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Author of Techno Thriller on World War III, a Cyberwar, to Speak Thursday, July 16
Peter W. Singer, co-author of a newly released World War III techno thriller that is sending chills through the Pentagon, will speak at the National Press Club Thursday, July 16. Singer, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, will address a noon meeting of NPC American Legion Post 20 on "Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War." All NPC members are invited to attend speaker portions of Post meetings. Singer was Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution before joining New America and is the author of acclaimed non-fiction books…
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The challenge of being Italy’s first – and only – female rabbi - discussion Thursday, Aug. 13
Rabbi Barbara Aiello –- who serves Jews across Europe as an advocate for Pluralistic Judaism –- will address the challenges of serving as Italy’s first and only female rabbi at a Newsmakers news conference on Thursday, Aug. 13 at 10 a.m. in the Zenger Room. In many parts of the Jewish world –- notably in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain and in Israel itself –- the number of female rabbis is increasing dramatically. Several rabbinical schools now boast classes that are 60 percent female. But as rabbi of the first active synagogue in Italy’s southernmost region, Calabria, Rabbi Aiello has faced…
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This Week In National Press Club History
July 7, 1983: Harry Belafonte, popular singer and social activist, speaks about human rights in the developing world at a luncheon. He appears again at a newsmaker event a decade later, one of many entertainment figures who come to the National Press Club to add their support to solutions for global problems of literacy, hunger, the environment, and nuclear weapons. July 7, 2010: Venus Williams, tennis champion and business woman, tells a sellout luncheon that “sports will teach you how to compete, how to fight back, how to win. Sports is the ultimate way to build confidence … any athlete…
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Learn how to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship this Saturday
Reporters will have the opportunity on Saturday, July 11 to get hands-on training in the use of Tails, a live operating system that can be used to conduct reporting without fear of electronic surveillance. The six-hour instructional class in Tails wraps up the National Press Club Journalism Institute and NPC's Press Freedom Committee's three-part course on encryption skills for reporters. Saturday's class will run from 9 a.m to 3:30 p.m. The class is not recommended if you do not have at least some limited experience using encryption software such as PGP or Tor. Tickets are $30 for Club…
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UNC chancellor to address college costs at Aug. 4 NPC luncheon
Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Carol L. Folt, will discuss the importance of preserving accessibility to an affordable college degree at a National Press Club Luncheon on Tuesday, Aug. 4. Folt, who was installed as UNC’s 11th chancellor in October 2013, has worked to keep the university affordable. Nearly half of Carolina's 18,000 undergraduates receive financial aid, and it is one of the few public universities that is both need-blind and covers full financial need. The average debt for Carolina students at graduation has remained largely flat for more than a…
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Caps Coach Trotz to Report on First Year As Coach Wednesday at NPC Luncheon
Washington Capitals Coach Barry Trotz will discuss the performance of Washington's NHL franchise during his first year at the helm and will look ahead to next season at a National Press Club luncheon Wednesday, July 8. Trotz is completing his first year with the Capitals after leading the Nashville Predators for 15 seasons. He ranks third all-time in both games coached and wins with a single franchise. No stranger to the region, Trotz spent five seasons as coach of the Capitals’ primary developmental affiliate in the American Hockey League. He became coach of the Baltimore Skipjacks in 1992…
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Luxembourg Ambassador to US to address EU priorities, concerns Friday, July 10
As his country begins its 12th six-month presidency of the European Union, the Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the United States Jean-Louis Wolzfeld, will discuss the EU’s priorities at a Newsmakers news conference on Friday, July 10 at 3 p.m. in the Murrow Room. Those priorities include revitalizing the single EU market by stimulating investment, boosting economic growth, and reducing unemployment. On the international level, Wolzfeld will discuss managing the problem of migration; promoting sustainable development; placing European competitiveness in a transparent global…
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