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National Press Club calls on India to investigate attacks on reporters
The National Press Club called on Nov. 28 for the Indian government to investigate charges that reporters were beaten in Indian-controlled Kashmir and to prevent such attacks from happening again. The Associated Press reported that four journalists were beaten while covering a protest in that region on Nov. 25. One of them, Umar Meraj, an AP cameraman, said he was attacked with rifle butts, batons, fists and kicks. The AP said local journalists and non-governmental organizations have repeatedly reported harassment and assaults by police in the territory. “Reporters and concerned people…
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Club event spotlights dangerous assignments
Among the many perilous countries where journalists work, Mexico and Pakistan stand out as particularly daunting, a panel of experts said Thursday at the National Press Club. Although different in many ways, the two countries both struggle to assert the rule of law and to foster democracy, including a free press. But in both countries, progress toward those ends has been fitful at best, as reporters have been intimidated, injured and killed in great numbers, two journalists and a State Department representative said a "The Danger of Knowing," a forum co-sponsored by the Club's Press…
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Reporting from journalism danger zones Mexico, Pakistan, panel Nov. 17
Two of the most dangerous countries in the world for working journalists, Mexico and Pakistan, will be scrutinized in a panel discussion at the National Press Club at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 17 in the First Amendment Lounge. "The Danger of Knowing" panel, co-sponsored by NPC, Reporters Without Borders and Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, will explore how Mexico and Pakistan,though different in location and circumstances, share the dubious distinction of being harrowing places for journalists to work, while events in both places demand coverage more than in most nations. The panelists are…
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National Press Club urges administration to reconsider Freedom of Information Act revision
The National Press Club expressed concern on Oct. 24 about a proposed new Freedom of Information Act rule that appears to require the government to deny the existence of certain documents even when that is not true. Federal agencies have long been able to withhold from public disclosure under the law certain categories of information, including data that pertains to ongoing criminal investigations or that is classified. Under the new Department of Justice proposal, in replying to a request for information under the freedom-of-information law, if the information is allowed to be withheld under…
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Obama Administration not delivering on its promise of open government, journalists say
President Barack Obama’s administration has failed to deliver on its promise of ``an unprecedented level of openness in government,’’ when it comes to information about science, a panel of journalists said Monday. At a forum titled ``Access Denied: Science News and Government Transparency,’’ the journalists urged the administration to provide better access to experts, respond faster to information requests and be more transparent about the reasons for failing to answer questions. Agencies ``are hurting themselves’’ when they block information, Joseph Davis, director of the Society of…
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Press Club Urges Mexico to Bring Killers of Journalists to Justice
The National Press Club on Monday called on authorities in Mexico to vigorously prosecute the murders and disappearances of journalists there. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, at least 30 reporters have been killed or gone missing since 2006 in a nation plagued by drug-related violence that affects all its citizens. CPJ documented on Sept. 30 what it called the first instance of a reporter in Mexico killed for writing on social networks. Maria Elizabeth Macias Castro was found decapitated in Nuevo Laredo on Sept. 24 with earphones in her ears, a keyboard nearby and a poster…
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Access Denied: Science news and government transparency panel, 3 p.m. Monday
Has the Obama administration lived up to its promise to make science more transparent and accessible to the public? An investigation in the current issue of Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) finds that despite President Obama's early promise to create an open government, the nation's science reporters feel there has been little to no progress since the Bush administration. On Monday, Oct. 3, from 3 to 5 p.m., the National Press Club hosts a panel of journalists and invited administration officials to critique what journalists and the government are (or aren't) doing to change that. The…
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Logan, Parvaz accept John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award
Each year, the National Press Club confers its John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award on two people whose actions contribute to the cause of press freedom and open government. The late Aubuchon was a former Club president and an ardent advocate of press freedom. This year's honorees both covered the uprisings in the Mideast and both faced horrific repression. The international winner of the Aubuchon prize was Dorothy Parvaz of al Jazeera, who was detained in brutal prisons filled with political detainees in Syria and Iran. The domestic winner was Lara Logan of CBS News and 60 Minutes, who was…
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Club outraged at jailing of Iranian blogger and his mother
National Press Club President Mark Hamrick expressed outrage on Aug. 10 at reports that Kouhyar Goudarzi, an Iranian blogger, and his mother have been imprisoned in Iran. The Club honored Goudarzi last year as the international winner of the 2010 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award after he had been incarcerated for months for the “crime” of speaking his mind. The Club hailed Goudarzi in November at a special ceremony and said his plight represented the abuses of journalists and others in Iran and beyond. At the ceremony, an eloquent statement from Goudarzi’s mother, Parvin Mohktare, was read…
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CBS News' Lara Logan, Al Jazeera's Dorothy Parvaz named John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award winners
The National Press Club has selected CBS News correspondent Lara Logan and Al Jazeera’s Dorothy Parvaz as winners of the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award for 2011. The Aubuchon Press Freedom Award honors people whose actions embody the struggle to advance press freedom and open government. Each year, the Club selects one domestic and one international figure to receive the award. “Among the things both this year's winners have in common is an outstanding determination to be where the news of the day is happening, often amid perilous conflict,” said Club President Mark Hamrick, an AP…
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