Search
Displaying results 3511 - 3520 of 4534
This week in National Press Club history: For first time, broadcaster gets Fourth Estate Award
This Week In National Press Club History: Oct. 15, 2010: Bob Schieffer, longtime host of CBS’s “Face The Nation,” receives the National Press Club’s 38th Fourth Estate Award. In April 1948, the Club’s constitution had been amended to admit broadcast journalists to membership, and Schieffer is one of 11 broadcast journalists to receive the Club’s highest honor, beginning in 1973 with Walter Cronkite of CBS News. Later recipients were, Brian Lamb, founder of C-Span, Christiane Amanpour of CNN, Eric Sevareid of CBS News and David Brinkley of ABC News. Andrea Mitchell, NBC’s chief foreign…
Type: News
Panel to discuss the right to photograph and record in public Oct. 23
In support of Free Speech Week, the National Press Club's Photography Committee will sponsor a panel discussion on the "Right to Photograph and Record in Public," on Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 6 p.m. to 8 .m. in the Club's Conference Rooms. The panel will be moderated by Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel to the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). The expert panel includes: - Robert Corn-Revere, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, an expert in First Amendment Law.- Gwendolyn Crump, director, Office of Communications, D.C, Metropolitan Police Department.- J. David Ake,…
Type: News
CNN's Piers Morgan to discuss, sign copies of his new book at afternoon Book Rap Oct. 18
Piers Morgan, host of CNN’s "Piers Morgan Live," will discuss and sign copies of his new book "Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney" on Friday, Oct. 18, at 2 p.m. in the Holeman Lounge. This is a ticketed event, and registration is required by clicking here. Tickets are $5 for Club members, $10 for the public. The member admission fee is waived if a book is ordered in advance, an option that appears on the ticket form. Each Club member can buy only one ticket at the member price. This event is a fundraiser for the NPC Journalism Institute. No outside books or memorabilia…
Type: News
Justice Breyer joins Oct. 17 "Saturday Night Massacre" event
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will make opening remarks at the National Press Club’s retrospective Thursday, Oct. 17, on the 40th anniversary of the “Saturday Night Massacre” when President Nixon fired Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, setting in motion the events that led to the president’s resignation. The event will be held in the Holeman Lounge beginning at 6:30 p.m. Breyer, who served on Cox’s staff, will talk about the character of the man who led the investigation into the Watergate scandal. After Breyer’s remarks, Bill Ruckelshaus, the assistant attorney general who resigned…
Type: News
Screening of PBS "JFK" film clips, panel discussion slated for Oct. 30
On Wednesday,Oct. 30. at 6:30 p.m., a prestigious panel will discuss John F. Kennedy's life and presidency by showing clips from the upcoming "American Experience" film "JFK," premiering in November on PBS in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the president's death. The panel will examine the relationship between JFK and the press, and explore how the media's treatment of the personal and political life of presidents has evolved through the years. To purchase tickets, click here. Panelists will include: - Susan Bellows. producer and director of "JFK." She is an award-winning producer…
Type: News
Expert to answer questions on debt-ceiling law at Newsmaker Oct. 14
As the possibility of a first-ever federal default looms closer, a respected authority will answer questions about the nation's controversial debt-ceiling law at a National Club Newsmaker event at 2 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 14. Neil Buchanan, a professor at George Washington University Law School, will address questions about the law’s constitutionality and options available to President Obama and Congress in resolving the current debt-ceiling crisis. Among the issues he will discuss: What will happen if the government defaults on its obligations? Does President Obama have options under the…
Type: News
Bob Schieffer, Jim Lehrer, Marianne Means to reminisce on JFK shooting at Nov. 4 event
Where were you when Kennedy was shot? Anyone over the age of 60 can tell you exactly what he or she was doing at the moment the news broke. It was the seminal breaking news story between the attack on Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It's an event that has captured the imagination of Americans of all ages. To mark the assassination's 50th anniversary, the National Press Club is bringing together on Monday, Nov. 4, three journalists who were in Dallas that memorable day a half-century earlier. Jim Lehrer, who went on to become the anchor of the PBS "NewsHour," was a reporter for…
Type: News
Show me the money! Schwab CEO Walt Bettinger to tackle the '401K' at Nov. 11 luncheon
Walter W. Bettinger, CEO of The Charles Schwab Corporation, one of the world’s largest investment companies, will tackle issues facing future retirees in a speech entitled "401(k) Plans: When will we put hard-working Americans first?" at a National Press Club luncheon on Nov. 11. Bettinger, 52, presides over more than $2 trillion in client assets and 1.6 million retirement plan participants. As CEO since October 2008, Bettinger leads a workforce of 14,000 full-time employees in 300 offices in United States, London and Hong Kong, and sets strategies that guide the investment and savings of…
Type: News
Michigan attorney general to preview affirmative action case at Newsmaker Oct. 14
Michigan attorney general Bill Schuette, who is defending Michigan’s constitutional amendment requiring equal treatment in public college and university admissions before the U.S. Supreme Court, will preview the case at a National Press Club Newsmaker Monday, Oct. 14, at 10 a.m. in the Zenger Room. Schuette will be joined by Jennifer Gratz, the original plaintiff in the precedent-setting Michigan affirmative action case Gratz v. Bollinger regarding the University of Michigan undergraduate affirmative action admissions policy. She is the founder of the XIV Foundation, named for the 14th…
Type: News
Former Brady Campaign head to discuss gun control impasse at Newsmaker Oct. 18
Paul Helmke, former president and CEO of the Brady Campaign/Center to Prevent Gun Violence, will address the political impasse over national efforts to reduce gun violence at a National Press Newsmaker event Friday, Oct. 18, at 2 p.m. in the Bloomberg Room. Helmke - also former president & CEO of the Brady Campaign/Center to Prevent Gun Violence, former Republican Mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., former GOP nominee for U.S. Senate and currently a professor at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs -- will discuss specific proposals intended to break the impasse on the…
Type: News