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Did You Know? NPC members test trivia knowledge with Pub Quiz
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. on Thursday, April 25 in the NPC's Reliable Source's Truman Lounge. No need to reserve. Bring your own team or show up and join one. Round prizes include complimentary appetizers. The grand prize of the evening is $50 off your tab. Pub Quiz is open only to Club members and their guests. For more information about your membership benefits please email [email protected].
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National Press Club member McCarren wins regional Murrow award
National Press Club member Andrea McCarren, a reporter for WUSA-TV (Channel 9)Washington's CBS affiliate, recently won the Edward R. Murrow Award for hard news reporting for Region 12 - Large Market TV. McCarren's story, "Six Terrible Seconds: Desaleen James," was about James, the lone survivor of a fatal car crash involving underage drinking. Click here for more information about her story. Region 12 includes Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware. McCarren will now be one of a handful of reporters considered for the national Murrow Award in this category.
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Washington Mystics offer tickets to National Press Club members
The Washington Mystics are offering the following ticket deals to National Press Club members. To take advantage of these special deals please contact Vlady Entin at [email protected] or call him directly at 202-527-7979. Mystics Season Tickets -- Get the best deal in the house with our season ticket packages for as little as $99 per season ticket in the club (200s) level!-- Lower Level seats start at $140 per seat for the season-- Center Preferred seats start at $525 per seat for the season-- VIP Seats start at $875 per seat for the season Mystics Six Game Plan The flexibility to…
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National Press Club officers plan to report to members on May 3 at noon
National Press Club President Angela Greiling Keane and other officers plan report to the membership on the state of the Press Club at a General Membership Meeting Friday, May 3, at noon in the NPC's conference rooms. A buffet lunch will be served. Please RSVP to [email protected].
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National Press Club member publishes novel about NCIS cold case investigation
National Press Club member George Vercessi recently published his fifth novel. NCIS Agent Jerzy Shore centers on cold-case agent and feng-shui enthusiast Jerzy Shore and the decades-old death of Midshipman Jeff Resnick, whose body was found at the base of the Naval Academy clock tower days before the annual Army-Navy football game. Initially determined to be accidental, Resnick’s death is called into question by an anonymous letter that ultimately lands in Jerzy’s lap, quickly pulling him into a convoluted scheme that turns his once-quiescent life upside down. Yet, all might go well for the…
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Did You Know? National Press Club members test trivia knowledge with monthly Pub Quiz
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. on Thursday, April 25 in the NPC's Reliable Source's Truman Lounge. No need to reserve. Bring your own team or show up and join one. Round prizes include complimentary appetizers. The grand prize of the evening is $50 off your tab. Pub Quiz is open only to Club members and their guests. For more information about your membership benefits please email [email protected].
Type: News
NPC's Get It Online series features 'Legal implications of social media' on June 7 at noon
Join other communications professionals at June’s Get It Online Series: Legal Implications of Social Media for Communication & Government Relations Executives, on June 7 at noon. The "Get It Online" lunch series is open to National Press Club members free of charge with the promotional code, NPCMember. Lunch may be purchased in the NPC's Reliable Source. A limited number of guests may attend at a cost of $50 per ticket, which includes lunch. Introductions will begin at 12:15 p.m. and the speaker will conclude by 1:30 p.m. Ample time is allotted for audience questions. Register here.…
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National Press Club member publishes book about early-20th Century gang
Long-time National Press Club member, Jeffery King, has just published his third book, Kill-crazy Gang about the Lewis-Jones Gang of the 1910s. The Lewis-Jones Gang was one of the first gangs to use the automobile to rob banks, trains and for stealing cars. The gang members were responsible for killing and maiming a number of lawmen and others who got in their way. King is a member of the NPC's Book and Author Committee. His other two books are The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd and The Rise and Fall of the Dillinger Gang. All of the books are available on Amazon. King plans to have a…
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D.C. United offers soccer ticket deals for National Press Club members
National Press Club members may receive special ticket price deals for D.C. United soccer games in April, May and June. To take advantage of these specials contact William Ruppe at 202-587-5452 or e-mail [email protected]. Philadelphia Union: Sunday, April 21 at 5 p.m. -- Family Pack: four sideline tickets, four hot dogs and four sodas for $113.-- Me plus 3 promotion: Buy three tickets and get one free. -- Four midfield tickets for $140. -- Four sideline level tickets for $110. Houston Dynamo: Wednesday, May 8 at 7 p.m.-- "Have a beer on us": Two sideline tickets and two beer vouchers for $…
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This Week in National Press Club History: Baldwin appears subdued during 2012 Luncheon
This Week In National Press Club History April 16, 2012: Alec Baldwin, the outspoken stage and screen actor, and activist for Americans for the Arts, in an unexpectedly subdued appearance at a Press Club Luncheon, says that “the arts are beyond essential” and that the United States should look to Europe for examples of far greater government support of the arts. The Club's Ballroom has been the stage for many other like-minded advocates for the arts. Opera star Beverly Sills in 1996 declared that “the government will sooner bail out a savings and loan bank disaster than to think that art…
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