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Books & Brunch plans virtual discussion of 'Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service' on Saturday, Nov. 20
The Press Club's Books & Brunch Team plans to discuss Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service by Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig at its next virtual meeting at noon on Saturday, Nov. 20. To RSVP and receive a link, please email Fay Iudicello at [email protected] by Thursday, Nov. 18. Those who RSVP should expect to receive the invitation at 9 a.m. on Nov. 20. Leonnig, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and co-author of the New York Times bestseller A Very Stable Genius, interviewed dozens of former and current agents, government offices and whistleblowers to…
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Club preparing for changes related to D.C. mayor’s new indoor mask policy
The National Press Club released the following statement from President Lisa Nicole Matthews related to the D.C. policy on mask mandates: "We are aware of the mayor’s announcement that D.C. will end the indoor mask mandate effective Monday, Nov. 22. The Press Club is currently planning to keep our mask policy in place (masks on except when actively eating or drinking) until early December at which time we will likely implement changes if all is going well. We are aware that the D.C. City Council is currently objecting to the mayor’s proposed policy change and is challenging the rule. Between…
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Update-1: Veteran correspondent discusses Afghanistan, Poland, VOA
David Ensor spent three decades as a news correspondent for NPR, ABC and CNN then turned to public service with a year at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan and then four years as director of the Voice of America. David Ensor was a reporter for NPR, ABC and CNN and was director of the Voice of America. Among his overseas posts was that of ABC News Bureau Chief in Warsaw when a Polish cleric became pope and helped his native land turn away from Communism. On the latest edition of Update-1, the National Press Club podcast, Ensor explores the intersection of history with his beat and analyzes…
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Ireland’s Sinn Féin party leader Mary Lou McDonald to speak at Newsmaker, Dec. 2
Ireland’s Sinn Féin party leader Mary Lou McDonald will speak will speak at a National Press Club’s in-person Headliners newsmaker on Thursday, Dec. 2. McDonald will discuss Brexit’s effect on the island nation’s economic and political stability, the rise of Sinn Féin and the prospects for reunification of Ireland. To submit a question in advance for the speaker, put MCDONALD on the subject line and email to [email protected]. Register online. McDonald has said she believes Sinn Féin is on the cusp of winning enough voter support to help make her taoiseach, essentially prime minister of…
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Club postpones event highlighting Rezaian's podcast
A special National Press Club event highlighting Club Member Jason Rezaian's podcast about his detention in Iran, 544 Days, has been postponed. The panel discussion, originally to be held Dec 3, has not been rescheduled. The Club will notify registered attendees when a new date has been set. 544 Days is a 9-part limited podcast series from Crooked Media about a newspaper trying to get one of its own out of prison; government officials torn between one citizen’s life and a whole region’s security; and a family dragged into the bizarre and sometimes hilarious world of high-stakes…
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Houston's chief executive Lina Hidalgo to speak about her county's fight for election reform, Dec. 7
Lina Hidalgo, the chief executive of the most populous county in Texas, will speak at a National Press Club in-person Headliners newsmaker on Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 10 a.m. Hidalgo, a progressive Democrat, has recently battled a Republican legislature to preserve her county's voting reforms, including 24-hour voting and drive-through voting. On Nov. 16, Republican commissioners and a group of voters sued the county, which includes Houston, to reverse the approval of new precinct maps they say will ensure a Democratic supermajority on the county commission. She has also clashed with Gov. Greg…
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Former Sen. Bob Dole, 1923-2021, spoke virtually to Club on Veterans Day 2020
Longtime Republican senator from Kansas and one-time presidential candidate Bob Dole died in his sleep Sunday morning, Dec. 5, at the age of 98, his family reported. Two past National Press Club presidents who were involved with Dole's final appearance at a Club event -- a virtual interview that was pre-recorded and streamed on Veterans Day 2020 -- reflected on that experience Sunday. Mike Freedman, NPC president in 2020, sent a note to Myron Belkind, NPC president in 2014, saying he thought of him upon hearing the news, as Belkind, a neighbor of the Doles who lived at Watergate South, had…
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Voice of America, ProPublica among National Press Club Journalism Awards winners
Voice of America won a National Press Club Journalism Award for coverage of the Trump administration’s attempts to redirect and censor VOA coverage. ProPublica won awards for consumer news and political news. Those news outlets were just two among a host of winners for outstanding coverage of events in 2020. The Club's awards announcement event will be held online on Jan. 6 at 6:30 p.m. The program will be streamed on press.org and our YouTube channel, and will be free of charge to anyone who wants to watch. ProPublica won the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis for its coverage of Trump…
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Appreciation: Sen. Bob Dole, a free press defender, spoke often at the Club
As congressional leaders begin to arrive on Capitol Hill to pay respects to the late Sen. Bob Dole, whose casket will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda Thursday, Dec. 9, some Press Club members are recalling their time covering his Senate years and his relationship with reporters and the media in general. Dole died Sunday, Dec. 5, in Washington at the age of 98. Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., was a friend of the press in general and the National Press Club in particular. Like his GOP and World War II contemporary, Gerald Ford, Dole believed a free press was essential to a free country. He…
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Reopening live theater amid pandemic, diversity in the arts topics at in-person Newsmaker, Dec. 14
Actors' Equity Association president and actor Kate Shindle and Broadway Advocacy Coalition president and actor Britton Smith will discuss the challenges of reopening live theater amid the COVID-19 pandemic and progress toward making American theater more diverse and inclusive at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on Tuesday, Dec. 14, at 10 a.m. Actors’ Equity will also release a new report on how state and local grant policies and weaknesses in the National Endowment for the Arts guidelines affect efforts to increase diversity at arts organizations. This Headliners in-person event…
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