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LegiStorm seeks fall interns
LegiStorm (www.legistorm.com) seeks motivated fall interns to join our small team to help release new data about the U.S. Congress designed to facilitate further research into how Congress works. Our ideal Congressional Research Intern is a degree-seeking student who is motivated, organized, self-directed, fast, accurate, diligent, politically interested, always questioning, and has the beginnings of some hard-core research skills. Our ideal Communications/Public Relations intern is a degree-seeking student who is motivated, organized, self-directed, fast, accurate, diligent, politically…
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Club changes student intern, reinstatement policies
The National Press Club board of governors on Aug. 15 approved two important Club policy changes. The first creates term memberships for interns who want to join for a short period of time while in Washington. While we hope their intern member stints will be the beginning of a long relationship with the Club, it will be easier for the interns, their employers and Club staff to offer them term memberships. The second new policy sets a $100 reinstatement fee for members who are suspended due to nonpayment of dues. Those applicants would also have to pay any overdue house account charges. The…
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Fellowship Fund helps members with interest-free loans
The National Press Club Fellowship Committee has an unwritten history that dates back to the 1930s Depression-era, when members sought to help others in the Club with sudden financial problems. The Committee became an unofficial channel for members to offer temporary relief to other members who were between jobs or who were in desperate need. As time passed, a welfare fund was established, controlled by the committee. Checks are signed by the Club's financial officers. Outright gifts were made to financially strapped members. These funds were replenished, often with extra money returned in…
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Newt unveils Medicaid proposal at 2005 luncheon
This Week In National Press Club History August 19, 2005: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, addresses a Club luncheon about reforming Medicaid. He proposes a new model for the program “that maximizes Americans’ ability to live as long as possible, as healthily as possible, with the highest possible quality of life at the lowest possible cost.” This Week In Press Club History is brought to you by the History & Heritage Committee, which is dedicated to preserving and revitalizing the Club’s history through displays, panel discussions, events, lectures and the oral history project…
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Kujawski obit runs in Post; Arlington burial set for 10 a.m. Aug. 23
A funeral service for former National Press Club bartender Jack Kujawski will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, Aug. 23, at Arlington National Cemetery. An obituary for Kujawski ran in the Aug. 14 edition of the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/jack-kujawski-71-bartend… Cemetery staff asks that attendees arrive 30 minutes ahead of time at the administration building behind the Visitors Center. If you're driving, go to the main entrance, where you will be directed by security guards. The Arlington Cemetery Metro station is a couple blocks from the main entrance.…
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Nixon enjoyed Club activities before ignominious departure from Washington
This Week In National Press Club History August 8, 1974: President Richard M. Nixon resigns and leaves Washington the following day. Nixon had once said that “the press is the enemy,” but in earlier years, he was often a presence at the National Press Club. As a young senator from California, he sometimes sat in on poker games with reporters at the Club. Photos depict him enjoying himself at the Club as vice president, participating in softball games and playing the piano, with Jack Benny accompanying him on the violin. Just a year before his resignation, he thanked then-Club President Don…
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Photo exhibit deadline approaches, Aug. 19
Entries are due by Friday, Aug. 19, for the 12th Annual National Press Club Members' Photography Exhibition. Photos may be dropped off in the Club Membership Office beginning Monday, Aug. 8. Each member may submit up to four photos. The exhibit, sponsored by the Photography Committee, is open to all Club members and is not juried. Photos will be on display through September. For exhibit rules please see: http://www.press.org/news-multimedia/news/submit-photos-club-exhibit-au… A reception honoring the photographers will be held from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, in the Club lobby and Library…
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Club welcomes 62 new members
The Board of Governors has approved the following new members of the National Press Club: Journalist - Yali N’Diaye – Market News International, Reporter; Rob Doherty – Reuters News, General Manager/Editorial Operations; Carmen Russell – Voice of Russia Radio, Reporter; John T. Shaw – Market News International; Anna Davalas MacDonald – Energy Now!, Executive Producer Journalist Retired - James MCcaskill – Storyboard, Reporter Journalist Non-Resident - Martin S. Bernstein (Troy, MI) – Freelancer, Auto Review Columnist Journalist Young Member - Jennifer Ejim – The News Machine, Contributing…
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Lehrer on 'citizen journalism'; Fourth Estate dinner Oct. 28
Jim Lehrer, longtime host of the PBS NewsHour, will receive the 2011 Fourth Estate Award at a dinner at the National Press Club on Oct. 28. Tickets are $125 for Club members. Every member can buy one guest ticket at the member price. Reserve at [email protected] or (202) 662-7501. Tickets for non-members, at $195 each, will not be sold until later. Lehrer has set a standard for broadcast excellence for more than 35 years and is also well known for moderating 11 debates over the course of the past six presidential elections. In the weeks leading up to the Fourth Estate dinner, the Wire…
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Apply for fellowship in reporting on technology, science, arts
The Kyoto Prize Journalism Fellowship enables talented journalists to connect with some of the world's leading thinkers by attending the 27th annual Kyoto Prize presentation ceremony, laureate lectures and workshops. The fellowship covers transportation to Kyoto, Japan, accommodations, and perdiem expenses for Nov. 7 - 14. The fellowship is available to working journalists and freelance writers based in the United States seeking to further their knowledge and deepen their reporting on technology, science and the arts. The fellow will have the opportunity to interview the Kyoto Prize laureates…
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