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Explore 'hyperlocal' news at launch of 'Get It Online' series, 6:30 pm July 14
Is hyperlocal online media the new 5 o'clock news? This question will be posed at the National Press Club’s new series, “Get It Online,” at 6:30 p.m. July 14 in the First Amendment Lounge. Seats are limited, so please pre-register now at: http://press.org/events/hyperlocal Member discount code is NPCMembers. We will be live-tweeting the panel event, and a cash bar reception will follow. Admission is free for Club members and $10 for non-members. In a time when more Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers, highly customized neighborhood-centric reporting is on the…
Type: News
Sponsors, donors sprint to Beat the Deadline 5K finish, June 11
Please join our Beat the Deadline 5K sponsors and race marshals Tony Horton of P90X and Suzanne Malveaux of CNN Newsroom for the 14th annual race for journalists and their sources at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 11. For more information or to register, go to www.press.org/5K. Packet pick-up and registration is Friday, June 10, from noon until 7 p.m. at the National Press Club, 13th floor, 529 14th Street, N.W. Race day registration is from 6:15 until 7:15 a.m. at the corner of 14th and F Streets NW. Horton will lead a pre-race warm up at 7:15 a.m., and the race begins at 7:30 a.m. from the…
Type: News
NASA chief to address luncheon prior to final shuttle launch, July 1
NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. will address a National Press Club luncheon on July 1, one week before the final scheduled space shuttle launch. He will discuss America's continued commitment to leadership in human spaceflight and NASA's plans to extend human presence beyond low-Earth orbit. Bolden has flown aboard the space shuttle four times between 1986 and 1994, twice as commander. His flights included deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope and the first joint U.S.-Russian shuttle mission, which featured a cosmonaut as a member of his crew. Bolden also had a long career with…
Type: News
Journalist, author to discuss jailing, Mideast turmoil, democracy in Iran, 10 am June 16
Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and former Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari will recount his 118 days in a six-by-12-foot prison cell in Tehran's Evin prison at a Newsmaker at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 16. Bahari, author of "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival," was falsely accused of espionage by the Iranian government. He also will discuss today's Middle East turmoil and the possibility of a democratic Iran.
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Author, documentary producer Rick Beyer introduces new book, 6:30 pm June 14
Rick Beyer will introduce his new book, "The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales From Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy" at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 14, in the conference rooms. Learn how the FBI spent years trying to decode the lyrics of one rock song. Discover how Watergate provided the inspiration for A Chorus Line. Find out how one megahit was born in a history class, while another was dashed off in a fit of anger at actor Robert De Niro. Meet the monk behind solfège, the aviation pioneer who created Muzak, and the prisoner who literally sang himself out of jail.…
Type: News
Former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft to analyze security challenges facing Obama administration, June 14
Brent Scowcroft, national security advisor to two presidents, will review the security challenges facing the Obama administration at a National Press Club luncheon Tuesday, June 14, during the 24th annual Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Journalism Awards program. Scowcroft, who was national security advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, has been involved in military and security issues at the White House level since the Nixon administration. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m., with the speech beginning at 1 p.m. and ending at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $18 for Club members…
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Get an extra mile out of your old running shoes
Bring out your old running shoes to the Beat the Deadline 5K on Saturday, June 11, and donate them to Perpetual Prosperity Pumps Foundation. The group will be collecting used athletic shoes for clean-up and shipment to Africa, where they are sold for $1-$2. Proceeds from your shoes help impoverished farmers to build and expand their operations and poor villagers to construct clean-water pumps. For more information about Perpetual Prosperity Pumps Foundation visit www.pppafrica.org.
Type: News
It's not too late to join media, celebrities in 5K, June 11
Last-minute entries are still available to join race marshals Tony Horton, creator of P90X, CNN Newsroom anchor Suzanne Malveaux and celebrities and journalists from major media outlets in the National Press Club’s 14th Annual Beat the Deadline 5K Race on Saturday, June 11. Packet pick-up and registration is Friday, June 10, from 12 noon until 7 p.m. at the Club, 13th floor, 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, DC. Race day registration is from 6:15 a.m. until 7:15 a.m. at the corner of 14th and F Streets, N.W. Horton will lead a pre-race warm up at 7:15 a.m. The race begins at 7:30 a.m. from…
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Club hosts international cartoonists, 5:30 pm June 20
The National Press Club and the State Department will host a welcoming reception for international cartoonists at 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 20, in the Holeman Lounge. The group of 20 political cartoonists, who hail from North Africa, the Middle East, and South and Central Asia, are in the country to meet with U.S. cartoonists and to get a taste of American culture. This event is free to members of the National Press Club and $10 fornon members. Click here to register and for more information:http://press.org/events/daring-draw-evening-political-cartoonists-aroun… A brief program will begin at 6…
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P90X's Tony Horton on search for "community inventors" at June 9 Newsmaker
P90X Trainer Tony Horton, honorary race marshal for the NPC Beat the Deadline, is partnering with the GO Campaign, a non-profit that supporting youth in the developing world, to launch a global search for community inventors and entrepreneurs at a Newsmakers press conference at 10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 9. Panelists will include Tony Horton, P90X creator/GO Board Member, Scott Fifer, GO Campaign Exec. Director, Joshua Schuler, Lemelson-MIT Executive Director, and Bernard Kiwia, Inventor/2011 Go Innovation Award Recipient. Lily Munanka, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of the United Republic…
Type: News