Search
Displaying results 3141 - 3150 of 4534
Tom Toles to draw and play at May 1 Spring Hoot
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Tom Toles will demonstrate his drawing skills and then play with his journalist-laden band, Suspicious Package, at the Silver Owls' Spring Hoot on Friday, May 1. As a musician, Toles plays drums and sings lead and harmony. As a cartoonist for the Washington Post, Toles has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer in 1990, and the Herblock award in 2011, named for the legendary Washington Post cartoonist Herb Block. Toles has had seven collections of his cartoons published. In addition, he authored and illustrated a children's book, "My School is Worse Than…
Type: News
16th annual NPC Photo Exhibit is coming soon
The 16th Annual National Press Club Members’ Photography Exhibition is slated to run the month of September in the 13th floor lobby. Sponsored by the Club’s Photo Committee, the exhibit is open to all Club members, who may submit up to four of their finest images. Each photo may not exceed 11x14 and prints must be securely mounted and matted. Photographs are due in the Club’s Membership Office between Monday, Aug. 3, and Friday, Aug. 14. Complete exhibition rules will be published in coming weeks, but please, start shooting or prepping those exhibition images.
Type: News
Magic show tonight at the Club
Tonight's the night. Five magicians from the Society of American Magicians Assembly 23 will perform family-friendly magic in the conference rooms starting at 7 p.m.. Another magician will do walk around magic in the Reliable Source for dinners who want to get a bite before the show. The show is free, but please let us know if you are coming (so we can set up enough chairs) by calling 202-662-7501. To reserve a table at the Reliable Source, call 202-662-7443 or go to the club’s website.
Type: News
NPC Journalism Institute to offer classes on turning numbers into stories
The NPC Journalism Institute is offering two classes in May on how spreadsheets and databases can turn numbers into stories and stories into prizewinners. The sessions will be taught by David Donald, data journalist in residence at American University. Previously, he was training director for Investigative Reports and Editors and data editor at The Center for Public Integrity. Spreadsheets can be much more than programs for doing your expense reports. Data skills can enhance your coverage of campaign money and help you document how tax dollars are spent. Data tools like pivot tables can…
Type: News
North Korean defectors to tell their stories at April 27 Newsmaker
A delegation of North Korean defectors will begin the 12th Annual North Korea Freedom Week with a Newsmaker event on Monday, April 27, at 9 a.m. in the Murrow Room. Before testifying on Capitol Hill, meeting with State Department officials and visiting the U.N., the group of defectors – which includes former military and eyewitnesses to slave labor operations, political prison camps and similar activities – will share information, release photographs and discuss their ideas for bringing about change in North Korea. Like all Newsmaker events, this news conference is open to credentialed press…
Type: News
Imprisoned former Maldives president to be subject of April 30 Newsmaker
Laila Ali, wife of imprisoned former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, will speak at a Newsmaker event on Thursday, April 30, at 10 a.m. in the Murrow Room, publicly releasing a filing with the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urging it to find that Nasheed is being held in violation of international law. Examining the case with Ali will be her international lawyers, Amal Clooney and Jared Genser. After many years as a dissident journalist, prisoner of conscience, and democracy activist, Nasheed became the first democratically elected president of the Maldives in 2008. His…
Type: News
This week in National Press Club history
April 20, 1948: The Club’s constitution is amended to admit broadcast journalists as active members. Just a few years before, the Club had voted against such a move, but when Ted Koop, a member of the Board of Governors, joins CBS News and has to resign, the Club changes its position, finally recognizing the broadcast age. In 1953, Koop became the first broadcast journalist to be elected Club president. April 20, 1959: Fidel Castro, prime minister of Cuba, addresses a Club luncheon less than four months after he and his guerilla army oust dictator Fulgencio Batista. He says he has no…
Type: News
World War II's "Ghost Army" to be subject of April 29 Book Rap
Historian Rick Beyer, an NPC member, and co-author Elizabeth Sayles will discuss and sign copies of their latest book, “The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery,” at a Book Rap on Wednesday, April 29, from 6:30-8:30 p.m.in the Club's conference rooms. Tickets are $5 for Club members and $10 for the public. Register here. This event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit NPC Journalism Institute. “The Ghost Army of World War II” is the first publication to tell the full story of how a traveling road…
Type: News
GMOs and pesticide use to be subject of April 28 Newsmaker event
Dolores Huerta, a Presidential Medal of Freedom Award recipient and co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, will discuss Genetically Modified Foods, health effects of pesticide and herbicide use on farmworkers and the current debate in Congress at a Newsmaker news conference on Tuesday, April 28, at 4 p.m. in the Bloomberg Room. Joining Huerta will be Environmental Working Group expert Scott Faber. Environmental groups recently filed suit to force EPA to review its decision approving herbicides used in GMOs in nine states. This is a step in a long effort to develop mandatory food…
Type: News
Travel to India and Bhutan Nov. 8-22
Join the NPC Travel Committee for a small-group tour of India and Bhutan. Highlights of the India portion include the historic cities of Old and New Dehli; Agra, home of the Taj Mahal; Japur, the pink city; and Varanasi, India's holiest city. Bhutan, sequestered from the world for centuries, enjoys remarkable natural beauty; a pristine, intact environment; and a friendly, tradition bound population. This trip is all inclusive and includes 13 nights of deluxe accommodations; breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily; experienced guides; and many extras. Check the intinerary at www.press.org/travel…
Type: News