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National Press Club calls for summit in wake of assault on reporter
The legal system has taken the appropriate action in the latest assault on a reporter, charging candidate Greg Gianforte with assault for the congressional candidate’s extraordinary attack that landed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs in the hospital (ironically, for asking a question about health care). But because this is one in a series of threats against journalists — including one against the chair of the National Press Club’s Press Freedom team — that seem to be escalating, the National Press Club and its Journalism Institute want to go further. “The National Press Club has long been a…
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US Government Browbeats Endangered Mexican Journalist Into Returning Home
In an unfortunate setback for press freedom that seems all too typical of the times, U.S. government foot-dragging in the case of Mexican journalist Martin Mendez Pineda has put him in grave danger. As we have already reported, Mendez sought asylum in the United States after receiving death threats in his home country for reporting he did on government corruption. He followed the letter of U.S. law in doing so, presenting himself at the port of El Paso with an attorney when he entered the country. Despite this and despite finding that he had "credible fear" of returning to his home country,…
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Press freedom advocates decry latest restraint on journalism
Our organizations, all of which advocate for journalists in the U.S. and across the globe, believe we must sound the alarm about what happened this week to veteran Washington reporter John M. Donnelly. While covering a meeting of the Federal Communications Commission for his employer, CQ Roll Call, Donnelly was pinned against a wall by security forces when he tried to ask a post-press conference question of departing commissioners. He later was forcibly evicted from the public building — despite clearly identifying himself as a member of the press and displaying the Capitol Hill press…
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Is there a Cold War on press freedom?
A little more than two weeks ago, the National Press Club, at it often does, hosted a group of foreign journalists. Around the table in the Sarah McClendon room sat this year’s class of Vaclav Havel fellows, young journalists from countries that once belonged to the Soviet Union. Their fellowship is cosponsored by the Czech and U.S. governments, in an effort to encourage democracy by bolstering free speech. Presiding at the head of the table was John Donnelly, the longtime chair of the club’s press freedom team. He drew the young reporters out, asking them questions and offering advice. As…
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Reporter manhandled by FCC guards because he asked question
Security guards at the Federal Communications Commission headquarters here manhandled a well-regarded reporter at a public hearing today and forced him to leave the premises after he had tried to politely ask questions of FCC commissioners. The reporter, John M. Donnelly of CQ Roll Call, is an award-winning journalist. He is also chairman of the National Press Club’s Press Freedom Team and president of the Military Reporters & Editors association. He has chaired the NPC Board of Governors and formerly served on the Standing Committee of Correspondents in the U.S. Congress, which…
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As Trump greets Erdogan, National Press Club and its Journalism Institute call on Turkey to free the press
As President Donald Trump welcomed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House Tuesday, we at the National Press Club are recalling another distinguished Turkish guest whom we hosted three weeks ago. Our luncheon guest was Erol Önderoğlu, the Turkish representative of the international organization, Reporters Without Borders. Those of us who were fortunate enough to spend an hour with him didn’t want to see him go, not only because Önderoğlu was urbane, passionate tough and witty -- a real reporter’s reporter - but because we fear for his safety. After years of defending other…
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Why did Trump block all but Russian state media from Oval Office?
The National Press Club on May 11 criticized a Trump administration decision to exclude reporters from a White House meeting between the president and top Russian officials. Dismissing a request from the White House Correspondents Association, the White House press office refused to allow reporters into the top of a May 10 meeting between the president and two top Russian officials, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The embarrassing result: News from inside the White House being made available to the world exclusively from Russian news sources. For its own…
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On World Press Freedom Day, media organizations call on U.S. government to free Mexican journalist
Our organizations -- the National Press Club Journalism Institute, Reporters without Borders, Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers, and the International Center for Journalists -- all working to advance press freedom in the United States and abroad, join in calling on the U.S. government to release Mexican journalist Martin Mendez from a detention facility in El Paso. Today — World Press Freedom Day — marks the 87th day of Martin's incarceration. This 26-year-old reporter's “crime?" Exposing official corruption in his hometown of Acapulco and then, after he was threatened with death…
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Press organizations pledge to strengthen journalism community in World Press Freedom Day statement
World Press Freedom Day 2017 arrives at a time when press institutions worldwide are under siege from forces that are both political and economic. Combined, these forces threaten democratic society as we know it. The same sweeping structural economic changes that have hollowed out so many newsrooms have produced widespread political anxiety.That anxiety in turn has given rise to scapegoating and kill-the-messenger-ism. Bearers of what are often bad tidings can’t expect to be popular, but journalists cannot take a neutral stand on attacks against themselves. The survival of democracy depends…
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Protecting the First Amendment: How U.S. press freedoms compare with other nations, Wednesday, May 3
A 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner will join reporters and editors from inside and outside the Beltway and representatives of international press freedom organizations on Wednesday, May 3, as the National Press Club and its Journalism Institute mark World Press Freedom Day. The press freedom workshop, Protecting the First Amendment, will be held in the Club's Murrow Room, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tickets are $5 for Club members; $10 for the general public. Registration is required. The morning-long discussion on the State of Press Freedom in the USA will feature panels that look at:·…
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