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Welcome Back to the Reliable Source! Special menu, new drinks, free parking await you
National Press Club members and their guests are invited to bring their appetites and taste buds to the Club's Reliable Source restaurant, where an array of new cocktails and special lunch and dinner menus are now being offered. We are open! Among the featured items are entrees, such as steak, salmon, halibut, shrimp with vegetables and potatoes/rice, and fish, chips and oysters. Daily sandwiches include crab cake, barbecue shredded beef and a burger with all trimmings. Other choices include salmon on Greek salad and certified angus beef steak served with salad. The kitchen prepares…
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Press Club members receive 40% discount for MAC Summit
The National Press Club's Communicators Team has been organizing a summit each year to discuss topics of importance to professional communicators -- with speakers, panels and networking. This year, however, because of the pandemic, the team is collaborating with several industry conferences to create the most comprehensive communications event the Mid-Atlantic region to produce the virtual MAC Summit on Oct. 22-23. Club members can register online. Be sure to use the code NPC to get your discount. NOTE: The conference organizers are offering special early-bird pricing until Oct. 10. While…
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Former FBI agent Peter Strzok examines Russian election interference, Sept. 30
Del Wilber, a National Press Club board member, will host a Zoom discussion at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 30, with former FBI agent Peter Strzok about his new book, "Compromised," which examines his long career fighting Russian spies and his controversial firing. To join this Zoom discussion email del wilber at [email protected]. A zoom link will be sent to those who register. Strzok was the lead agent in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and later spearheaded the FBI probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. He was fired in 2018 from the…
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Back again! Virtual Pub Quiz set for Thursday, June 18, 7 p.m.
You know the expression “third time’s a charm?” Well, the National Press Club’s third Virtual Pub Quiz – set for June 18 at 7 p.m. is sure to be one heck of an appealing shindig of online trivia and social levity, all from the comfort (or confines) of your home. Although the world is still social distancing, Virtual Pub Quiz is still a great opportunity for Club members and friends to connect with each other and to make new friends, too. And, through Zoom, it’s easy to play: Form a team with at least three members and then have each member register here Don’t have a team? Don’t worry. Just…
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Space program broadcaster calls Dragon spacecraft 'natural follow on to Apollo'
Retired space program broadcast coverage veteran Jim Slade called the new Dragon spacecraft launch of American astronauts "a natural follow on to Apollo." Slade told the National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast Team members Thursday that the SpaceX manned launch to the International Space Station, the first one ever by a private company, was "an achievement, a new tool in an ongoing program." "The spacecraft is designed to carry up to seven astronauts to the space station," he said. "A version of it can be used as a cargo craft. In both cases, it can -- and has been -- used automatically to get…
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Nonfiction Authors Association CEO to address Club's indie authors June 11
The club's informal group of independent authors will get an insider's view of the publishing world on Thursday, June 11, when it hears from Stephanie Chandler, CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association. The meeting takes place via Zoom beginning at 9:30 a.m. Chandler is the author of several books including The Nonfiction Book Publishing Plan: The Professional Guide to Profitable Self-Publishing and The Nonfiction Book Marketing Plan: Online and Offline Promotion Strategies to Build Your Audience and Sell More Books. A frequent speaker at business events and on the radio, she has been…
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Foreign correspondents event on Reporting During a Pandemic postponed
Due to the ongoing protests, the International Correspondents Team needs to postpone the panel on reporting during a pandemic originally scheduled for Wednesday, June 3. The panelists are covering the demonstrations. A new date for the panel will be announced when scheduled.
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Chat with Barton Gellman online about his book 'Dark Mirror' on Wednesday
Barton Gellman will discuss his book, "Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State" online at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 3. In 2013, Gellman helped break the news of Edward Snowden's disclosures of the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance network that sucked up the electronic communications of unsuspecting Americans. He won a Pulitzer Prize for public service for his work. The former Washington Post reporter's publisher describes "Dark Mirror" as a "narrative of investigative reporting as it happened and a deep dive into the machinery of the…
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A war correspondent and his Press Club card
In the 1945 war movie “Objective Burma!,” a war correspondent named Mark Williams is stuck in the jungle with a platoon of GIs. As they talk about where they most want to be, Williams says, “At the National Press Club bar sipping a bourbon and water." But the Club is a touchstone for more than just make-believe movie war correspondents. Many members have taken their Club membership cards around the world as they report from conflict zones. New York Times correspondent Rod Nordland is one of them. He has reported from more than 150 countries and has been posted in Bangkok, Beirut, Baghdad,…
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Books & Brunch to discuss "The Friend" via Zoom on June 20
Books & Brunch will meet via Zoom on at noon Saturday, June 20, to discuss "The Friend" by Sigrid Nunez. The novel, described in The New York Times as "an acerbic but often poignant exploration of love, friendship, death, grief, art and literature," won the National Book Award for fiction and rave reviews. All Club members are welcome to join in the discussion. Please RSVP to Fay Iudicello at [email protected]. You will receive a Zoom invitation shortly before the meeting begins. And obviously, brunch is of your own making. Can't make the June 20 meeting? Plan ahead. The group…
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