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National Press Club Honors Linda Tirado With Press Freedom Award
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2020--The National Press Club is honoring Linda Tirado, an author and freelance photographer, with a 2020 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, Club leaders announced Wednesday. Tirado was taking pictures of a street protest in Minneapolis on May 30 when a policeman’s foam bullet hit her left eye, costing Tirado most of her sight in that eye. Tirado is suing the Minneapolis police department, and she faces mounting medical bills for her injury but has no health insurance. "There's no way that they could have mistaken me — with a professional camera — for anything but working…
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Release Al Jazeera Journalist Jailed Years Without Trial, Say U.S. Press Leaders
WASHINGTON — Authorities in Egypt must promptly free Mahmoud Hussein, an Al Jazeera producer who has been detained without trial for more than three and a half years, leaders of the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute said. Hussein, an Egyptian who works for the Al Jazeera Arabic channel in Qatar, has been imprisoned since December 2016 — more than 1,300 days ago. He was detained during a trip to Egypt to visit his family and has been kept in solitary confinement and denied medical treatment for a broken bone he sustained early in his incarceration nearly…
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National Press Club, Journalism Institute Condemn Hong Kong Crackdown
WASHINGTON, August 11--Leaders of the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute condemn China’s crackdown on the press in Hong Kong. Hong Kong police arrested on Monday at least eight journalists, including media tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai, and raided his newsroom in the latest assault on press freedom under a new “national security law” that China is using to repress Hong Kong’s citizens. Even before this week’s raids, Hong Kong authorities had attacked journalists covering pro-democracy protests and denied a New York Times reporter a work permit, among other…
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National Press Club and Journalism Institute support VOA and its journalism
The National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute stand with Voice of America and its director, Amanda Bennett, against unsupported criticism by the White House of its coronavirus coverage. Bennett is a highly respected journalist who has been a staunch advocate of the independence guaranteed in The VOA Charter signed by President Gerald R. Ford in 1976. To claim, as the White House has done, that VOA has been reporting Chinese propaganda flies in the face of the facts. VOA has reported on the Chinese undercount of coronavirus deaths in the city of Wuhan, reported on …
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Press Club Leaders Urge Justice for Danny Pearl
WASHINGTON, April 3--The National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute urged Pakistani courts to reconsider a ruling that would lessen the sentence of a man convicted of masterminding the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Press reports indicate a Pakistani court ruled today to reduce charges against Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was sentenced to death in 2002 for being the ringleader of Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in that country. The ruling today overturned the murder charge against Sheikh and the court sentenced him to seven years for the…
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Trump 'working very hard' to win Austin Tice release
Freelance journalist Austin Tice has been missing in Syria for seven years. President Donald Trump offered new optimism for the fate of freelance journalist Austin Tice Thursday, saying he is “working very hard with Syria” to win Tice’s release seven years after he went missing. “We hope the Syrian government will do that,” Trump said. “We are counting on them to do that.” Tice, an award-winning journalist and Marine veteran, was taken hostage while reporting from Syria in 2012. He is the only U.S. journalist being held overseas. Trump appealed to the…
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National Press Club and Journalism Institute Optimistic Over POTUS Statements On Austin Tice
The Following is a statement by National Press Club President Michael Freedman on the President's mention of Austin Tice in today's briefing: President Trump began today's press conference by calling on the Syrian government to "work with us" to free journalist Austin Tice. The National Press Club and the Journalism Institute are grateful that work is being done with Syria to bring him home. May it be soon. We are pleased for his family which has worked so hard to make this possible and appreciative of the good work of Robert O'Brien and others. We will be monitoring the situation and are…
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NPC, NPCJI condemn China’s expulsion of U.S. journalists
The National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute condemn China’s decision to expel American journalists working for the United States’ biggest newspapers. “During this time of extraordinary international uncertainty and fear about the spread and ramifications of the coronavirus, slamming the door on independent journalism serves no good purpose for the people of the world,” said Club President Michael Freedman. “In fact, this action will likely backfire on Beijing, which badly needs to stabilize its economy from the effects of COVID-19," Freedman added. "That is far…
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Bring Austin Tice Home for Thanksgiving
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Press Freedom Leaders to Louisville Police: Release Daily Caller Reporters
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2020--The following is a joint statement by Angela Greiling Keane, president of the National Press Club Journalism Institute, and Michael Freedman, president of the National Press Club, on the arrest Wednesday night and continued detention of two reporters for The Daily Caller, Shelby Talcott and Jorge Ventura, who were covering the protests after the grand jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case in Louisville. “We call on the Louisville police to release immediately the two reporters they have in custody following the protests in Louisville Wednesday night. Shelby…
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