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This Week In National Press Club History
July 17, 2003: Former President Gerald R. Ford makes his fifteenth and last appearance at the Club for his foundation’s annual journalism awards luncheon, given for coverage of the presidency and defense issues. Columnist Hugh Sidey describes Ford as the only president he knew who genuinely liked reporters. July 19, 1962: Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr become the first African-American to speak at a National Press Club luncheon. He discusses non-violent resistance and freedom, and receives the Nobel Peace Prize two years later. July 19, 1985: Mementos reflecting journalistic…
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Interpreting smoke signals from the marijuana skirmish line
The legalization of medical and recreational marijuana and the public and social policy quandary it poses will be explored at a Newsmakers news conference on Thursday, July 24 at 10 a.m. in the National Press Club's Murrow Room. The legalization of pot is a fast-moving social experiment – as well as a new economic driver – that has taken legislators by storm as they try to sort out the right response to the will of the people about a controversial medicine and recreational intoxicant. And they’re hardly the only ones thrown off balance. It has pitted members of the medical community against…
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July 23rd event to highlight drones and photojournalism
Chuck Tobin, a former journalist who now heads the national media practice team at the Washington law firm of Holland & Knight, will speak at a special event on drones and photojournalism at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 23 at the National Press Club. Tobin is leading an effort to enact regulations for this innovative and controversial type of aerial journalism and will explain the legal turbulence that surrounds it. He will be joined by Matt Waite, founder and director of the Drone Journalism Lab in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska. Waite will…
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Scientists to forecast California drought impacts through 2016 at July 15 Newsmaker
University of California scientists will update and expand their forecast of the California drought’s economic impacts on agriculture at a Newsmakers news conference at 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 15, in the club’s Zenger Room. California’s Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross will also speak at the event. The event will be webcast live at www.visualwebcaster.com/CAdrought. New data shows where the drought is hitting California growers hardest and how the state’s system of groundwater pumping threatens further losses in farm production, income and jobs in the nation’s richest agricultural…
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Wife of imprisoned Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López to speak, July 21
Lilian Tintori, wife of imprisoned Venezuelan political activist Leopoldo López, former mayor of the Chacao district of Caracas and the leader of the Popular Will opposition party, will speak at a Newsmakers news conference on Monday, July 21 at 10 a.m. in the First Amendment Lounge. Lopez is scheduled for trial in a Caracas court on July 23. Tintori and her attorneys will present a report examining the charges against her husband and placing them in the context of the domestic political situation in Venezuela. A popular political figure, López is seen by many as a potential future president…
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Club podcast features interview with SPJ ethics chair
The latest edition of Update-1, the Broadcast Committee's podcast, is now available on the Club's website featuring an interview with the Society of Professional Journalists' ethics committee chairman on revisions to the society's longstanding ethics code. SPJ's Code of Ethics has stood for years as a benchmark for newsrooms. Now, that Code is under revision to recognize the changes in news gathering brought on by the digital age, Kevin Smith, chairman of the SPJ Ethics Committee tells Broadcast Committee member Bill McCloskey, also a member of the organization's national board. McCloskey…
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NEH Chairman Bro Adams Jan. 15 Luncheon moved to ballroom in response to demand; Tickets now available
William 'Bro' Adams, the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will outline his plans for the endowment’s future, including its 50th anniversary activities this year, at a National Press Club Luncheon on Jan. 15th. Originally scheduled for the Holeman Lounge, the event quickly sold out. To accommodate demand, the Speakers Committee has moved the luncheon to the Ballroom. Tickets are now available. Reserve your ticket by clicking here. The tenth chairman of the NEH, Adams will use his talk to launch the agency’s new initiative “The Common Good: The Humanities in the…
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ICANN Event Scheduled for January 13 Postponed
The luncheon interview with ICANN CEO Fadi Chehade about the future of Internet governance on Jan. 13 has been postponed until further notice.
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Eisenhower, Frost, Davis, Cohen Speak on Partisan Divide; Shields Moderates, Jan. 13
The National Press Club Journalism Institute will hold a discussion on Congress and the partisan divide on Jan. 13 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. in the Conference Rooms. Registration is free, but please RSVP here. Democrat Martin Frost and Republican Tom Davis knew how to work together effectively as Congressional leaders. In The Partisan Divide: Congress in Crisis, they have joined forces, along with columnist Richard Cohen, to describe how the decline of bipartisanship has brought about a government that seems incapable to addressing the serious problems that affect our nation, and they suggest how…
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Top Energy Regulator to Discuss Reliability of the National Grid, Energy Prices at Jan. 27 Luncheon
Cheryl LaFleur, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, will speak about the challenges her agency faces to maintain the reliability of the nation's electricity grid and reasonable prices for consumers at a National Press Club luncheon on Tuesday, Jan. 27. LaFleur, chairman of the commission since July 2014, will also talk about the expansion of the nation's natural gas supply system as the result of unprecedented production from the use of hydraulic fracturing technologies. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m., with remarks beginning at 1 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer…
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