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CNN’s Clarissa Ward receives 2022 National Press Club Fourth Estate Award
Clarissa Ward, recipient of the 2022 Fourth Estate Award. Clarissa Ward, CNN's award-winning chief international correspondent, based in London, will receive the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award, at a Press Club gala in her honor on Wednesday, Dec. 7. Ward is the 50th recipient of the award, which recognizes journalists who have made significant contributions to the field. Ward has spent nearly two decades reporting from the front lines in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt and Ukraine for CNN, ABC, CBS and Fox News. “I am incredibly honored to receive this esteemed award from…
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Club to honor the best in journalism Aug. 31
The National Press Club will recognize the best in journalism at its 49th annual awards dinner, scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 31. This will be first in-person awards dinner since 2019 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tickets are available here. Categories include breaking news, Washington regional reporting to humor and online journalism. The winners can be found here. A new award will be presented, the Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism. The award is named for Club member Nell Minow, a longtime movie critic. The dinner and awards program begins at 7 p.m. following a reception at 6 p.m…
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Historic vote to admit women to Club is topic of Fall Hoot Sept. 16
The 50th anniversary of the National Press Club's vote to admit women will highlighted Friday, Sept. 16, at the Owls' Fall Hoot. The event begins at 6 p.m. in the Holeman Lounge and Ballroom. Tickets are $35 and can be reserved here for a three-course dinner, preceded by a reception with cash bar. Hoots are open to all members and their guests. The 50th anniversary milestone actually occurred last year, but couldn't be observed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The evening will celebrate the vote of the all-male membership in 1971 to approve the admission of women to the Club. Vivian Vahlberg…
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Washington Post reporters to discuss their new book on opioid industry on Sept. 22
Two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters for The Washington Post reporters will discuss their new book on the opioid industry on Thursday, Sept. 22. The in-person Headliners Book Event event featuring Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz will begin at 6:30 p.m. They are the authors of “American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry.”
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Photojournalist Linda Tirado talks about perils and responsibilities of covering conflict
Linda Tirado, winner of a National Press Club 2020 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, recently visited the Club to accept her award in person. Coinciding with that trip, she agreed to speak with NPC Broadcast/Podcast Co-vice-chair Adam Konowe for the latest edition of Update-1, the Club's podcast. You can listen here. The wide-ranging interview covered Tirado’s early days reporting on American civil unrest, why she chose to cover the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis, how she lost an eye due to a non-lethal round fired by police, her subsequent recovery and lawsuit, how police and…
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Press freedom in Afghanistan since fall of Kabul is subject of Aug. 26 discussion
American and Afghan journalists will discuss the current state of press freedom in the war-torn country at a virtual event at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 26. An archived livestream of the event is available online. After the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan one year ago this month, news organizations scrambled to help colleagues and their families out of the country. Panelists will discuss challenges facing independent journalists in Afghanistan at an Aug. 26 National Press Club event. Photo: "Burqua Interview" by knottleslie; Creative Commons. Reporting only became more…
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Club's 49th Annual Journalism Awards Dinner to honor best journalism, Wednesday
One of the National Press Club’s premier events, its 49th Annual Journalism Awards Dinner, will feature a special presentation of the President’s Award honoring the late Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Wednesday evening, Aug. 31. The event begins at 6 p.m. with a reception in the Holeman Lounge followed by dinner and program in the Ballroom. Tickets are $75 for the general public, $65 for members of the Club. They can be purchased online. Business attire is appropriate for attendees. The dinner celebrates the best in broadcast and print stories from breaking news and Washington…
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Fall Hoot to salute Club's 50th anniversary of admission of women members, Sept. 16
The National Press Club will mark the 50th anniversary of the admission of women as members at a celebratory dinner at the Club Friday, Sept. 16. The event is being organized and arranged by the Club's Silver Owls at its Fall Hoot. While the 50th anniversary was last year, the Press Club was unable to observe this historic event due to restrictions imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. The National Press Club’s first woman president, Vivian Vahlberg, was sworn in by President Ronald Reagan in 1982. Vivian will be returning to talk about that day. Photo: Stan Jennings "With this dinner, we…
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Podcast goes 'back to school' with school administrators' leader Dan Domenech
Dan Domenech Dan Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators, the school superintendents’ association, talks about the enormous challenges school leaders face as students head back to school in the current edition of the National Press Club's podcast, Update-1. Domenech says his 13,000 members are worried about a lot more than test scores. He spoke with Broadcast/Podcast Team member Debra Silimeo about school safety, the teacher and staff shortages, students’ mental health needs, COVID-19 and the culture wars that have found their way into classrooms…
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Major League Baseball Players Assn.'s Tony Clark, AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler to discuss growing role in the labor movement, tomorrow
Major League Baseball Players Association executive director Tony Clark and AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler will speak at a National Press Club-sponsored Headliner event on Wednesday, Sept. 7, at 10 a.m., in the Club’s Holeman Lounge. The two labor leaders will discuss recent initiatives and alliances that have thrust the MLBPA to the forefront of sports news this year. This week, the MLBPA, which represents the 1,200 players on the rosters of all 30 Major League Baseball teams, distributed union authorization cards that would allow the nation’s 5,000 minor league baseball players to vote on…
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