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National Press Club welcomes home Jason Rezaian, 7 pm March 14
The National Press Club will welcome home Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian at a reception at 7 p.m. March 14 in the ballroom. The private event for Club members, Rezaian's colleagues and invited guests also will be open to the media. RSVP online. Rezaian spent 545 days isolated in an Iranian prison, after being arrested by the government and unjustly convicted. He was prosecuted essentially for acting as a journalist in covering the country for the Post. Rezaian was released in January. The Club played a large part in the effort to free Rezaian. Under the leadership of then-President…
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Did you know? Club hosts monthly trivia night
Did you know that the National Press Club hosts a monthly trivia night? Test your knowledge at the next edition of Pub Quiz at 7 p.m. March 10 in the Reliable Source’s Truman Lounge. No need to reserve. Bring your own team or show up and join one. Pub Quiz is open only to Club members and their guests. For more information about your membership benefits, please send an email to [email protected].
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Personal finance reporting workshop offered free for Club members, Oct. 8
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) and the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) will host the 2015 Personal Finance Reporting Workshop in New York on Thursday, Oct. 8, ahead of SABEW’s Fall Conference. It’s an opportunity to get updates and exchange ideas with panelists and fellow reporters on personal finance topics including retirement, student debt and Millennials and money -- and take the pulse of the industry with panels on blogging and the state of personal finance reporting. The workshop will be held at the TKP New York Conference Center in…
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Did You Know? Club offers monthy trivia nights
Did you know that the National Press Club hosts a monthly trivia night? Test your knowledge at the next edition of Pub Quiz at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Reliable Source's Truman Lounge. No need to reserve. Bring your own team or show up and join one. Pub Quiz is open only to Club members and their guests. For more information about your membership benefits, please send an email to [email protected].
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Are you a trivia maven? Come to Pub Quiz, 7 pm Oct. 8
The next National Press Club Pub Quiz will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 8, in the Truman Lounge. Join veteran Pub Quiz emcee Marc Wojno for a fun-filled evening with friends and colleagues to win great prizes and enjoy delicious food and drink from the Reliable Source. Don’t have a team? No worries. We always have solo players, and we can team you up. The event is yet another great way to make new friends and connections at the Club. Space fills up quickly, so be sure to arrive early to grab a table for your group, or contact Mesfin Mekonen at 202-662-7521 or [email protected]…
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Club plans to commemorate historic C-SPAN telecast
Along the corridor on the National Press Club's 14th floor is a small room that was used as a makeshift studio for an historic C-SPAN telecast. At a recent Club Broadcast Committee Legends Dinner, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb recalled that the first thing that happened was the lights went out -- not good for television. After a quick fix, the C-SPAN's first call-in show continued. The 35th anniversary of that event is coming up next week, and the Club will mark the occasion by installing a plaque in the room. The exact wording is still being worked out, but it will read something like this: "In…
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Sign up for Club's new mentoring program
There are two weeks left for mentors and mentees to sign up for the National Press Club’s new mentoring program. Open to both journalists and communicators, the program is intended to create the kind of inter-generational connections that were always a benefit of belonging to the Club but are increasingly difficult to establish in the 24/7 news cycle of today. If you’re on the threshold of your career, or if you’re a seasoned Washington hand who’d welcome a chance to give back to the profession, learn more and sign up by Oct. 15 at the new Mentoring Program page on the Club website. A task…
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Club members get discount at Investigative Film Festival & Symposium, Sept. 30
"Double Exposure: The Investigative Film Festival" opens Sept. 30 in Washington, and National Press Club members can see the films, meet the filmmakers and attend an array of workshops, all at a discount. The festival and symposium celebrates the great migration of investigative reporting to film and other forms of visual storytelling and of filmmakers into territory traditionally seen as strictly journalistic. Think of projects like the recent New York Times epic on "The Lawless Seas" and films like "Cartel Land" and "Tales of the Grim Sleeper." The event, sponsored by 100Reporters,…
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Fall general membership rescheduled from lunch to breakfast, 9 am Oct. 2
The National Press Club will hold its next general membership meeting at 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 2, with a light breakfast. We have moved this year's fall meeting to the morning to make way for a luncheon at noon. The business portion of the meeting will include reports by Club officers. For those of you who cannot attend in person, there will be a webcast. The video will also remain posted for later viewing. Members planning to attend are requested to RSVP to [email protected].
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Club member offers study trip to Turkey in early November
National Press Club member Mehmet Saracoglu invites Club members -- journalists and communicators -- to Rumi Forum`s upcoming annual study trip to Turkey. The trip -- from Nov. 6 to Nov. 15 -- will focus on media and press freedom, democracy and human rights in Turkey and the wider region, as well as social, economic, cultural, security and political issues. The application form is due by Oct. 5. The Rumi Forum has been organizing trips to Turkey since 2005 as a way to inform Club members about the country and region. During the tour, Club members will have an opportunity to gain an insight…
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