Search
Displaying results 111 - 120 of 707
National Press Club Joins Letter to FCC After Trump Threats
The National Press Club and the NPC Journalism Institute have joined with other news groups in urging the Federal Communications Commission to defend the First Amendment against presidential pressure. President Donald Trump last week suggested that the broadcast licenses of news organizations should be “challenged and, if appropriate, revoked” if they disseminate what he calls “fake news.” His comment came in the wake of a report by NBC News that he did not like. The Federal Communications Commission, chaired by Ajit Pai, licenses local stations, not networks such as NBC. Still, news…
Type: News
Who are the enemies of the press? Netflix documentary explores threats to press freedom from billionaires, Oct. 19
The First Amendment protects the press against government censorship, but could the biggest threat to press freedom come from private, monied interests? That's the question posed by "Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press," a provocative documentary by director Brian Knappenberger that Netflix is bringing to the National Press Club at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 19. The screening will be followed by a 30-minute panel discussion with some of the principals sponsored by the NPC Journalism Institute. Tickets are $5 for Club members and $10 for non-members and can be purchased online. The film…
Type: News
National Press Club, NPC Journalism Institute stand with Mexico’s journalists
The National Press Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute join our colleagues around the globe in mourning the death of Candido Rios Vazquez, a Mexican journalist who reported extensively on corruption in his country. The 57-year-old, who was in a government program to protect journalists because of threats on his life, was gunned down Aug. 22. The brutal murder of another Mexican reporter is the latest extreme example of a growing global problem: the targeting of journalists who challenge power, whether that power is wielded by thugs or politicians. It is to call attention to this clear…
Type: News
Press Freedom Award honors White House and Mexican reporters
The White House Correspondents’ Association and the press corps of Mexico are the winners of the National Press Club's 2017 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. Each year, the Club honors two recipients of the award, one domestic and one foreign, for demonstrating through their work the principles of press freedom and open government. In a year when journalists have been explicitly targeted by people and forces who see freedom of information as a threat to their power, the Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute are recognizing two groups that have been on the front lines of the struggle.…
Type: News
Club Institute and media lawyers launch tracker for denials of media access to governments
The National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Media Law Resource Center have launched an effort to monitor day-to-day impediments facing journalists covering federal, state and local government. The Institute has created a simple online form that anyone can fill out any time a public official is muzzled, government data is denied or other types of information that belong to the public are kept from the public. Worried about leaving digital fingerprints? Mail us: Press Freedom FellowNational Press Club Journalism Institute529 14th Street NWWashington, DC 20045 Through the work of the…
Type: News
National Press Club and its Journalism Institute recognize Reuters journalists with press freedom award
In a year when journalists have been targeted by governments and forces who see freedom of information as a threat to their power, the National Press Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute are recognizing Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Reuters journalists who have been on the front lines of the struggle, with its 2018 Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. The awards will be presented at the Club’s annual Fourth Estate Award gala in the fall. Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been detained in Myanmar since December 12, 2017, for allegedly being in possession of secret official documents…
Type: News
National Press Club condemns continued detention of reporters in Myanmar
The National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute condemned today the continued detention of two Reuters reporters in Myanmar and urged the government there to promptly release them. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been in custody since December 12th on accusations of breaching the government's Official Secrets Act. The two journalists had been covering the Rohinga human rights crisis in Rakhine state. The duo had a meeting at a restaurant with two Myanmarese police officers on Dec. 12, where they were handed rolled up documents and told they could open them at home,…
Type: News
Hearing for detained Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez set for Feb. 26
An asylum hearing for detained Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez has been set for Feb. 26, although it could be pushed back to March. Gutierrez and his son Oscar have been confined at an El Paso, Texas, detention facility since Dec. 7 after an attempt by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport them was halted by the Bureau of Immigration Appeals. In December, the bureau agreed to review the case. Gutierrez's lawyer, Eduardo Beckett, is seeking an extension of the Feb. 26 hearing until the end of March because of other cases he has pending. Emilio, the Club's 2017 John Aubuchon…
Type: News
Speakers protest detention of Mexican journalist on press freedom, moral, legal grounds
Speakers at a Jan. 19 press conference sponsored by the National Press Club and its non-profit affiliate, the National Press Club Journalism Institute, protested continued detention of Mexican journalist Emilio Guttierrez by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on press freedom, moral and legal grounds. Andrea Edney, who became Club president less than two hours before the press conference, introduced the program as her first official act and promised her commitment to the case. The first speaker, Club Executive Director Bill McCarren, reminded attendees that nothing had changed since…
Type: News
Club to update developments on jailed journalist at news conference, tomorrow 2 p.m.
The National Press Club and its non-profit affiliate arm, the National Press Club Journalism Institute, will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. tomorrow (Friday) to discuss developments in the asylum case of Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez. The event, to be held in the First Amendment Lounge, will feature remarks by Club officers and staff as well as attorney Eduardo Beckett, who is representing Gutierrez pro bono. Gutierrez, who last October accepted the Club’s John Aubuchon Award for Press Freedom on behalf of Mexico’s journalists, is confined to the El Paso Detention Center while his…
Type: News