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Deadline nears to seek CUNY business reporting grant
Thursday, March 31, is the deadline to apply for the McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism, an initiative of the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. The McGraw fellowship provides up to $15,000 and editorial support for experienced journalists to produce deeply-reported investigative or enterprise stories on critical economic, financial and business topics. Journalists of color and journalists from diverse backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply. Previous McGraw fellows have explored a wide variety of topics -- and you don't need to be a…
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Join Young Members at Taco Night Friday, April 1
The Club's Young Members team plans its first 2022 meeting and happy hour on Friday, April 1, during Taco Night. The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. in the Cosgrove Lounge. Club members will receive a free drink voucher while talking with other young members to plan upcoming activities. RSVP here. For questions and more information, please email Jess Mendoza at [email protected] or Brittany Shammas at [email protected].
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Mentors needed for college students this summer
The Fund for American Studies is seeking working professionals in the Washington area to volunteer as mentors to college students attending our academic internship programs during the months of June and July. Learn more about the mentor program, schedule, and requirements here. If interested, fill out our short Mentor Program Sign Up Survey by Friday, April 15. For questions, contact TFAS Alumni Engagement and Special Programs Manager Jen Stangland at [email protected]
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Press Club co-ed softball team holds first practice April 2
The National Press Club softball team is preparing for another season in the Metropolitan Media Softball League. Its first practice is scheduled for Saturday, April 2, at 10:30 a.m. at Aspen Hill Park. Any Club member who would like to join the team and play in the season that starts April 23 should contact coach Jim Rubin at [email protected] .
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How famed broadcaster Edward R. Murrow's World War II dispatches colored Ukraine reporting is subject of April 5 event
Broadcast legend Edward R. Murrow established the standards of modern broadcast journalism during World War II. Now his influence on the reporting from war-torn Ukraine will be subject of a Zoom gathering of the Broadcast/Podcast and History & Heritage Teams at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 5. Casey Murrow, Edward Murrow's son and an honorary lifetime member of the National Press Club, will be the special guest. Joining Casey Murrow in the one-hour conversation (with members’ questions) will be Marvin Kalb, the last correspondent personally hired by Edward R. Murrow at CBS News. Kalb, a…
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Hear from son of famed Cold War spy pilot at April 11 American Legion Post 20 meeting
Francis Gary Powers Jr. will be guest speaker at the National Press Club's American Legion Post 20 at noon Monday, April 11, in the McClendon Room. It will be the post's first in-person meeting since the start of the coronavirus pandemic two years ago. Powers is the son of Francis Gary Powers Sr., the CIA pilot whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, setting off a highly publicized international Cold War incident. He is the author of two books, Letters from a Soviet Prison (2017) and Spy Pilot (2019), which aim to dispel misinformation surrounding the U-2 incident.…
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Communicators team to discuss combating global disinformation with defense and diplomacy officials on April 14
The National Press Club's Communicators Team will host a virtual “Candid Conversation on Combating Global Disinformation” at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 14. Disinformation has infiltrated nearly every aspect of society. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shown that this problem reaches the highest geopolitical, military and diplomatic levels. Speakers from the Department of Defense, State Department and National Security Agency will discuss how they are navigating increasingly complex and muddied information environments. This program is free and only open to Club members. Members should …
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NPC co-ed softball team starts season 2-0
The National Press Club co-ed softball team won both games of its double-header Saturday, posting a solid start to the 2022 Metropolitan Media Softball League season. In the sweep, each game was a close one. The scores in the inter-divisional games were: NPC 9 NPR 8 NPC 13 CNN 12 The league said NPC has "the oldest active streak of making the playoffs," at 12. The team is .547 over the last five seasons. Visit the MMSL Facebook page for more information about the rest of the games played Saturday. NPC next plays on Saturday, April 30, at the Layhill fields. The 2021 league champ Alumni is…
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Scholarship Committee seeks judges for Zimmerman award
The Scholarship Committee needs your help! We will judge applications for the Zimmerman Award on Saturday, April 30, at 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. virtually via Zoom. Participants will have the chance to review application materials during the week before Saturday’s meeting. The Richard G. Zimmerman Scholarship is a $5,000 grant to help an incoming college freshman pursue journalism. These awards have been life-changing for past recipients, and you can be a part of that experience by helping review the terrific entries we have received. Please contact Alexis Garcia ([email protected]) for…
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Club member invites fellow NPC members to see her entry in Alexandria art show
National Press Club Member Carol Morgan invites fellow NPC members to a closing reception for an art show in which she has an entry, at the Art League Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, on Thursday, April 28, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. She will be there, and you can talk to her about her bas relief, "Dance of the Nurses' Aides," that is on exhibit with works by other artists. The theme of the show, "Screen Dream," is works inspired by movies and TV’s "stories, images, writers, actors, directors, and/or musical themes." Morgan said her artwork suggests the TV program "M*A*S*H." Incidentally, you…
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