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5th James W. Foley Freedom Run set for Oct. 20
Join the National Press Club to participate in the fifth annual James W. Foley Freedom Run in Washington, an event to raise both awareness and funding for journalists' safety, including education and advocacy efforts. The 5K Run/Walk begins at 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, in Rock Creek Park Grove 1. Runners and walkers can sign up by going to the Club's race page and clicking "Register to Run Today" in the lower right hand corner of the page. Runners should sign up as fundraisers. Registration is $35, and the amount goes to the Club's goal of raising $5,000 for the James W. Foley Legacy…
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1995 NPC luncheon highlighted member service in WWII
Left to right: Don Larrabee, Joe Laitin, John Harllee, Edgar Alan Poe, Ed Prina, Gen. Paul Tibbets, Frank Holeman, John Cosgrove, Shirley Povich. Left to right: Don Larrabee, Joe Laitin, John Harllee, Edgar Alan Poe, Ed Prina, Gen. Paul Tibbets, Frank Holeman, John Cosgrove, Shirley Povich. Next month will mark Veteran's Day and the 100th anniversary of the founding of National Press Club American Legion Post 20. This is one in a series of pieces featuring Club veterans. As a member of the National Press Club's Speakers Committee from the 1990s into the 2000s, I'd put together many head…
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Fourth Estate dinner speakers Don Graham, Sandy Rowe to honor Amanda Bennett
Amanda Bennett, best known for her award-winning leadership in investigative reporting at The Wall Street Journal, The Oregonian and Bloomberg News, will receive the National Press Club's most esteemed prize, the Fourth Estate Award, at a Club gala in her honor on Oct. 17. Bennett is the 47th recipient of the award, which recognizes journalists who have made significant contributions to the field. She will be honored that night with tributes by Donald Graham, former publisher of The Washington Post, and Sandra Mims Rowe, former editor of The Oregonian, where Bennett was managing editor and…
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More sessions, instructors added for Journalism Institute writing workshop, Nov. 1
What to know how to make an investigative story go viral, what to do when you become part of the story, or how to write for magazines? Want to learn from the likes of Washington Post national correspondent Wesley Lowery, Washington Post Magazine editor Richard Just, and Yvonne Rolzhausen, research director at The Atlantic? Come to the National Press Club Journalism Institute’s half-day multi-session workshop on Friday, Nov. 1, and choose from among these offerings and many more to create your own four-course program. The workshop will be held from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and participants will…
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Acclaimed San Francisco chef Heena Patel to host multi-course dinner Oct. 23 at Fourth Estate restaurant
Chef Heena Patel, an alumna of San Francisco's acclaimed small-business incubator La Cocina, will share the intricacies of Gujarati food at a multi-course cookbook dinner at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23 at the Fourth Estate restaurant. Patel's recipes are included in the incubator kitchen's recently published book, "We Are La Cocina: Recipes in Pursuit of the American Dream," and on daily display at her successful Indian restaurant in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco, Besharam, which means "one who is shameless and who does not follow the rules." Patel specializes in the food of the…
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Today: Judges, lawyers to explore sweeping changes to immigration court system, 10 a.m.
Judy Perry Martinez, president of the American Bar Association Top leaders for immigration judges, the American Bar Association and immigration lawyers plan to discuss sweeping changes in court policy and operations at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 27, in the Bloomberg Room. The Newsmaker is open to credentialed media and Club members free of charge, with advance registration required. Please register online. A panel including Ashley Tabaddor, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ); Judy Perry Martinez, president of the…
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Start New Year's Eve with dinner at the Fourth Estate
The Fourth Estate Restaurant of the National Press Club will offer an a la carte menu on Tuesday, Dec. 31, at a 6 p.m. and an 8 p.m. sitting. Starters: $10, your choice of Savory winter green salad, pear, pomegranate seeds, Feta cheese, spiced pecans and pomegranate vinaigrette, Appetizer plate: Two jumbo shrimp, Smoked salmon avocado toast and Swiss chard fritter; cocktail sauce and dill crème fraiche Warm Lobster bisque, truffle Parmesan croutons and fresh herbs. Entrées: $35, your choice of Steamed cracked king crab leg, drawn butter, almond couscous (or Old Bay fries) and tropical…
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NPC in History - C-SPAN coverage of Club debuts with Volcker speech
Club President Art Wiese looks up at Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker shortly before Volcker made Club history on Jan. 3, 1980, by being the first speaker recorded by C-SPAN. Joe Slevin, who would be president in 1981, is in the middle. Photo: Stan Jennings The recent death of Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, brought obituary accolades of his role in bringing inflation under control in the early 1980s. But most of those obituaries missed the part Volcker played in a significant moment in National Press Club history, and he may not even have known that he did.…
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NPC in History – birth of the Kalb Report
During the first Kalb Report, September 1994. From left, Moderator Marvin Kalb, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson, and National Economic Council Director Robert Rubin. This past week, The Kalb Report produced its 100th program in the 26 years since it was launched in September, 1994. In addition, the program’s executive producer for all 100 programs, Mike Freedman, was elected 2020 National Press Club president on Friday. In honor of those two events, I want to recount how the program was launched. When I ran to be the 1994 president, I said I…
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Podcast covers vital role of non-profit news
Jason Alcorn, NewsMatch Project Director Jason Alcorn Non-profits newsrooms provides necessary services to communities across the country and they are the focus of this edition of Update-1. In this podcast NewsMatch Project Director Jason Alcorn talks to National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast Committee member Shannon Fisher about the role of non-profit news and the struggle independent news organizations have funding local watchdog journalism. NewsMatch is an annual gift matching campaign started by the Knight Foundation, an organization with a mission of informing communities to keep…
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