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Reliable Source is open with special menu, new drinks, free parking
The National Press Club's Reliable Source is open and is featuring entrees, such as Filet mignon, salmon, halibut, or shrimp with vegetables and potatoes/rice. Daily sandwiches include crab cake, apple-wood-smoked turkey wrap, Sloppy Joe, roast beef and/or a burger with all of the trimmings. Parking is free after 5 p.m. at 1325 G Street N.W., a former PMI parking garage now run by ONE Parking. Remember to have your ticket stamped in the Reliable Source or at the front desk. You must spend $25 to be eligible for free parking. Other choices include salmon on Greek salad and certified angus…
Type: News
Wilber plans to chat with Len Downie, Jr. about new memoir on Tuesday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m.
Del Wilber, a member of the National Press Club board, continues his virtual author chats with Len Downie, Jr., a former executive editor of the Washington Post who has just published a memoir detailing his time leading one of the nation's most-respected newspapers. The talk will be held over Zoom on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at 7 p.m. To join, please email Del at [email protected]. He will add you to a list of participants and send you instructions closer to the talk. Downie, 78, has been getting non-stop praise for All about the Story: News, Power, Politics, and the Washington Post. Kirkus…
Type: News
Books & Brunch will discuss 'The Shadow King' at Dec. 19 virtual meeting at noon
Books & Brunch will meet via Zoom at noon on Saturday, Dec. 19, to discuss The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste. This novel, short-listed for the 2020 Booker Prize, is set during Mussolini's 1935 invasion of Ethiopia, taking the reader back to the first conflict of WWII. To RSVP and receive a Zoom link, please email Fay Iudicello at [email protected]. Those people who RSVP should expect to receive the Zoom invitation at 9 a.m. Saturday. For those who wish to get a head start on their reading, the group will read Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin at the meeting…
Type: News
NPC Communicators Lunch and Learn how to select a PR agency on Thursday, Dec. 3 at noon
One element of the public relations/communications process that is often not given enough emphasis is how organizations go about finding and hiring agencies to support them, as well as how agencies “sell” their business to potential clients. During a Lunch and Learn session on Thursday, Dec. 3, at noon, Steve Drake (l) and Robert Udowitz, the founders of RFP Associates, plan to describe how the “request for proposal”, or RFP, is traditionally used in the agency-selection process. The National Press Club Communicators Team is hosting the online event, which will be conducted via Zoom and free…
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Online voting for Press Club 2020 election continues
Online voting continues today and ends tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. All members eligible to vote should have received an email from e-Ballot with a link taking them to the voting portal. If you’re eligible to vote and didn’t receive an email please contact Laura Coker at [email protected]. General information about the election can be found here.
Type: News
Club members receive discount for Moment Magazine's Virtual Gala this Sunday
National Press Club members are invited to attend Moment Magazine’s virtual gala at 7 p.m. on Nov. 22 celebrating top journalists and newsmakers at a Club members' only price. The event honors Michel Martin, host of NPR’s Weekend Edition, with the Robert S. Greenberger Journalism Award, Max Brooks, author of World War Z with the Creativity Award, and journalist and poet Calvin Trillin with the Literary Journalism Award. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, interviewed by Robert Siegel, will receive Moment’s 2020 Women and Power Award. Other speakers and honorees include Andrea…
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Book & Author Group invites Press Club member-authors to promote published works at Book Raps
During this time of virtual gatherings, the Book & Author Group would like to offer National Press Club authors a chance to promote their published books at a Book Rap. Authors must be Club members and their books need to be recently published, usually within the last year. The group also considers Club members with plans to publish books in the near future. All topics are welcomed and run the gamut from fiction to non-fiction, poetry to dramatic readings, short stories to graphic novels. Events are usually held in the evenings. Please contact Joe Motheral at [email protected] to be put on…
Type: News
Member Dan Morrison and his son, Sam, publish a travel book for kids
National Press Club member Angus "Dan" Morrison has published a children's travel book with his son, Sam, 13, entitled "Backpacks & Baguettes." The book is part narrative, part graffiti/street art that Sam has encountered on his travels around the world -- graffiti (brought to life by Italian illustrator, Marco Primo) because it's better than any postcard to truly understand a place. The book attempts to see travel through a child's eyes, where everything is new and everyone is a possible friend. Sam, who is British and American and has grown up in Paris and Washington, puts us in his…
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NPC Communicators "Lunch and Learn" on how to publish a book, Nov. 19
Two National Press Club Communicator members who are also successful authors will provide advice to aspiring writers about how to publish a book during a "Lunch and Learn" hosted by the Communicators Team on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 12 p.m. Registration to the online professional development session is free for Club members. Participants will receive a link to access the Zoom call before the event. Click here to register. The session will feature Ed Barks and Edward Segal, longtime Club members and veteran communications and business management experts. They each have recently written books for…
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Communicators to host healthcare media panel, May 20
During an upcoming online conversation hosted by the National Press Club Communicators Team, a panel of healthcare reporters will describe how their jobs have evolved, especially while facing the challenges of covering a global pandemic. The “Meet the Healthcare Media” Lunch and Learn session will be held on Zoom on Thursday, May 20, at noon. Admission is free for Club members. Guests are welcome to attend for a $15 registration fee, which will be used to support the NPC Staff Support Fund to assist Club staff who have been furloughed due to COVID-19. Register online. Panel participants are…
Type: News