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TV veteran McCarren to offer on-camera workshop Saturday, March 15
National Press Club member and veteran television reporter Andrea McCarren will teach on-camera skills in a two-hour workshop on Saturday, March 15 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. in the Club's Broadcast Center. This is a great opportunity for mid-career journalists to learn or improve their on-camera skills in an intensive two-hour hands-on workshop. Through “mock interviews,” you’ll learn: · How to craft and deliver meaningful sound bytes for taped and live interviews · How to be more comfortable and confident on camera · What to wear and what not to wear for your television…
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Learn basic Excel skills Monday, March 10
Learn basic Excel skills for reporters Monday, March 10, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room. Excel is packed with features to put you in control of your data, helping you to follow campaign money and holding accountable the officials who spend our tax dollars. Instructor JoElla Straley will orient reporters with basic and powerful features that make data analysis a snap, including importing, formatting and sorting. She will also introduce the fabulous PivotTable. Registration is required here and is $20 for Club members, $40 for others. All sales are final.
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Learn to handle large data sets in SQL Tuesday, March 11
Learn the fundamentals of Structured Query Language (SQL)Tuesday, March 11, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room. SQL allows users to deal with much larger data sets than a simple spreadsheet does, and it allows more complex operations like matching items from two lists (“joining”). Learn the fundamentals of finding and importing data, and learn to write queries on your own. Instructor JoElla Straley will show you how to find connections in data that tell a story. Registration is required here and is $20 for Club members, $40 for others. All sales are final.
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March 4 Newsmaker with former Senator George Mitchell postponed due to weather
The Newsmaker event scheduled for Tuesday, March 4 at 10 a.m. has been postponed due to weather.
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Honor violence Newsmaker scheduled for Monday, March 3, postponed due to weather
WASHINGTON, DC – Due to forecasts of extremely harsh winter weather, the Newsmakers news conference on Honor Violence scheduled for Monday, March 3 at 10 a.m. is being cancelled and will be rescheduled in the near future.
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Books & Brunch to discuss novel about World War I Saturday, March 15
The Club's Books & Brunch group will discuss ”The Sojourn” by Andrew Krivak at noon on Saturday, March 15, in the Fourth Estate Restaurant. The book is a novel of brotherhood, survival, and coming-of-age. It tells the story of Jozef Vinich who returns with his father from a 19th century Colorado mining town to an impoverished shepherd’s life in rural Austria-Hungary only to be uprooted again by WWI. Andrew Krivak is a faculty member in the Arts and Science Honors Program at Boston College He won the 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for “The Sojourn.” Books & Brunch meets in the Fourth…
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Ukrainian protest leader to speak at Newsmaker Wednesday, March 5
One of Ukraine’s most internationally recognizable and politically active citizens will discuss the situation there at a Newsmakers news conference on Wednesday, March 5 at 3 p.m. in the club’s Conference Rooms. The news conference featuring pop music star and former Ukrainian Parliament member Ruslana Lyzhychko – known simply as Ruslana – comes one day after she receives the U.S. Secretary of State’s international Women of Courage Award. Ruslana has been a key figure in the EuroMaidan mass protests since they began last November, appearing on Kyiv’s Independence Square almost every night…
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Jazz Night in the Fourth Estate to celebrate Mardi Gras Tuesday, March 4
On Tuesday, March 4 the Fourth Estate will host Jazz Night in a special Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras celebration. The restaurant, in conjunction with Georgetown’ home for jazz, Blues Alley, hosts musicians from the Blues Alley Youth Orchestra at the beginning of each month, but Fat Tuesday calls for special recognition. Jazz Night is usually the first Wednesday of every month, but the musicians and restaurant wanted to pass on the opportunity to hear a little jazz, eat food reminiscent of New Orleans and blow out the jams on the traditional last night of Mardi Gras. A trio will play from 6 p.m.…
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Club podcast on Affordable Care Act now available
As the end of the open enrollment period for health plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)approaches, the Broadcast Committee's podcast series, Update-1, takes a look at where the law goes from here. Is there any real chance ACA will be repealed? And what changes, if any, might eventually be made to the law? National Press Club member and Sirius Radio White House Correspondent Jared Rizzi speaks to Dr. Aaron Carroll, professor of Pediatrics and director of the Center for Health Policy and Professionalism Research at Indiana University. Update-1 provides a forum for listeners to…
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Club award contest seeks best online journalism
The National Press Club wants to recognize the best of cutting-edge online news coverage with the Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award. The Press Club’s journalism contest looks for original reporting and those who have taken advantage of online technology, such as interactive databases, primary-source interviews, and accompanying charts and graphs, in order to provide a thorough and graphically attractive report. This competition recognizes the best journalism that uses online technology to provide a more compelling report than a print or broadcast story alone. The award includes a $…
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