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Panel to discuss the future of Washington regional reporting on Aug. 1
In conjunction with its 30th anniversary, the Regional Reporters Association will team up with the National Press Club Journalism Institute to look at the future of Washington regional reporting, the journalists who cover the nation's capital from a local perspective for readers far outside the Beltway. The program will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, in the First Amendment Lounge. Doors will open at 5:45 p.m. The cost is $5 for Club members and $10 for nonmembers. Registration is required. The challenges are many:: Shrinking newsroom budgets have closed or decimated many D.C. bureaus,…
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Reporters to discuss covering gun violence at Tuesday program
A National Press Club program on Tuesday, July 23, will focus on covering gun violence with two reporters who cover the subject. The event will take place in the ballroom at 7:30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. Admission is free, but registration is required. John Woodrow Cox and Wesley Lowery, both of the Washington Post, will discuss issues such as the increase in mass shootings, violent domestic disputes, officer-involved shootings, accidents and suicides, and share their different approaches to reporting on this issue.
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Club's Podcast focuses on allowing news organizations to negotiate collectively with Facebook and Google
In the latest edition of Update-1, Rep. David Cicilline, D-Rhode Island, sits down with National Press Club member Bill Loveless to discuss legislation he introduced to allow local news outlets to negotiate collectively with large online platforms like Facebook and Google. From his office on Capitol Hill, Cicilline discusses how the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act would provide a lifeline to publishers facing increasingly difficult economic conditions. The bill is the opening salvo in a larger antitrust investigation of the online market by the House Judiciary Committee. Club…
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NPC in History: Nixon's the one
Richard Nixon unwittingly transformed the National Press Club. He had been a regular around the Club, especially when he was vice president, showing up for summer frolics and father-daughter dinners, Club inaugurals and playing the piano at entertainments. In the annual baseball game in the 1950s between the press and the government, Nixon was photographed at bat. In 1958, he boosted his stature in his bid for the presidency in a luncheon speech where he described his Latin American tour that ended with a vicious demonstration of anti-Americanism that threatened his life. He had kept his…
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Sample booze, boost press freedom, tomorrow, 6 p.m.
More than 100 craft distillers from around the country will share their bourbons, vodkas, gins and more tomorrow, Tuesday, July 23, to benefit the National Press Club’s Journalism Institute. The event, to be held in the First Amendment and Holeman Lounges, will begin at 6 p.m, and will be open to members of the Club, working journalists and the general public. Please register online. The tasting is sponsored by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States and the American Craft Spirits Association to raise funds for the Club's Journalism Institute, which campaigns for press freedom…
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Hear how journalists can maintain trust with victims and whistleblowers at Institute program, tomorrow
What makes a whistleblower or someone who’s been a victim of a crime or major misdeed willing to come forward to a particular journalist or outlet? Find out tomorrow, Thursday, July 25, at a National Press Club Journalism Institute program in the Conference Rooms from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., from the subject of the Washington Post story,"'The man who attacked me works in your kitchen’: Victim of serial groper took justice into her own hands," as well as her advocate and the Post journalists they trusted. Doors for the event will open at 6:15 p.m; the program will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m.…
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Current Club podcast examines how students determine what's true and what isn't
How America’s young people are learning to separate fact from fiction in today’s information avalanche is discussed by three leading experts in the current edition of Update-1, the National Press Club’s podcast. The podcast features interviews with Belinha de Abreu of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., chair of the annual conference; Jeff Share, who teaches new teachers at UCLA; and Natasha Casey, a teacher at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Ill. They helped lead the National Association for Media Literacy’s recent annual conference in Washington. On Update-1, they discuss helping…
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Sen. Sherrod Brown to unveil stock buyback legislation at Headliners Newsmaker, Wednesday
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker news conference at 10 a.m. this Wednesday, July 31, in the Holeman Lounge. Brown, ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, will unveil new legislation to curb stock buybacks and create a ‘worker dividend’ to ensure workers get a share of the profits that they help produce. This Headliners Newsmaker event is open to credentialed media and Club members free of charge, with advance registration required. Click here to register. Large, publicly traded corporations often buy back their own stock to boost…
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Venezuela's ambassador to assess his country's political situation at Headliners Newsmaker, tomorrow
Carlos Vecchio, ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the United States, will address his country's political situation at a National Press Club Newsmaker tomorrow, Tuesday, July 30, at 11 a.m. This Headliners Newsmaker event is open to credentialed media and Club members free of charge, with advance registration required. Click here to register. Vecchio's talk will focus on the role the United States and the international community can play to aid the Venezuelan people as they struggle amid political chaos, food and fuel shortages and economic uncertainty. Vecchio was…
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More tickets available for Aug. 7 luncheon featuring House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings
Additional tickets have become available for the Aug. 7 National Press Club Headliners luncheon featuring Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The event has been moved to the ballroom from the Holeman Lounge to accommodate demand. His remarks come in the wake of President Donald Trump’s recent Tweets about Cummings’ congressional district, in which he called Baltimore “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and the “worst in America.” Cummings also will address the Oversight Committee’s investigations into the Trump…
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