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Journalism Institute plans to offer three-day cybersecurity training course for journalists
Reporters will get the chance to learn how to protect themselves and their sources from cyberhacking at a three-day training course at the National Press Club. The hands-on cybersecurity-training series will take place on three Saturdays: June 20, June 27 and July 11. Classes will take place from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day. Tickets can be purchased for individual sessions or for all three sessions. The cost of a single daily session is $30 for club members and $40 for nonmembers. Lunch will be provided. Click here to register and for more information. Participants will need to bring their…
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NPC workshop: Making the Freedom of Information Act work for you
The National Press Club will offer workshops this fall to help reporters learn how to submit effective government Freedom of Information Act requests that quickly get results. The two-part class will be held Nov. 18 and Dec. 2 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Club's Zenger Room. The instruction is cosponsored by the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Club’s Press Freedom Committee. The instructor is veteran journalist and attorney Lisette Garcia. Click below to register.Session ISession II Participants will review case studies and learn how to overcome standard objections raised…
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National Press Club backs reporter under pressure to divulge confidential Source
The National Press Club expressed Thursday its support for a New York Times reporter who continues to fight a government attempt to force him to reveal in court the identity of a confidential source. The National Press Club honored the reporter, James Risen, with a John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award last year. The award recognized Risen for his reporting work and for resisting for years efforts by two successive administrations to compel him to testify in their case against Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA officer who's accused of leaking classified information about an unsuccessful CIA…
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National Press Club decries crackdowns on press freedom in Azerbaijan
As elections drew to a close this week in the Republic of Azerbaijan, the National Press Club closely monitored deteriorating press freedoms in that country and the government's imprisonment of political opponents there. The Club joined 22 international organizations, including Reporters Without Borders, Article 19, Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety of Azerbaijan, Index on Censorship and PEN International in condemning the arrest of journalists, bloggers and human rights activists. "Recent developments in Azerbaijan suggest a government that's not committed to democracy, which…
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National Press Club Criticizes Illinois Court for Coercing Patch.com Reporter
The National Press Club criticized Thursday the decision by an Illinois county judge last week to hold a Patch.com reporter in contempt of court and to impose hundreds of dollars in daily fines after the reporter refused to reveal the source of leaked police reports. Joseph Hosey, who edits the Shorewood, Ill. Patch website, used police reports provided to him by an anonymous source to report certain lurid details surrounding two high-profile area killings that occurred in January. The defense attorneys for one of the accused suspects called on Will County Circuit Court Judge Gerald Kinney to…
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National Press Club Questions Prosecution of Official Who Disclosed Bomb Plot
The National Press Club raised questions Tuesday about the Justice Department's prosecution of an ex-FBI agent who reportedly told the Associated Press last year about a foiled terrorist plot to bomb an airliner. Law enforcement officials told news organizations on Monday that they confirmed only by reviewing AP reporters' phone records earlier this year that the suspect, Donald Sachtleben, had contacted an AP reporter in 2012 about the Yemen-based plot. The collection of the reporters records, under a secret subpoena, had triggered outrage among news organizations. It led to a rewriting of…
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Press Club to Explore How Newspaper Unearthed Photographer's Double Life as FBI Informant
Ernest Withers was an iconic photographer of the civil rights movement who was granted close access to Martin Luther King Jr. and other movement leaders in order to capture their images for posterity. At the same time, it turns out, Withers was spying on King and his colleagues for the FBI. The NPC's Freedom of the Press and Young Members Committees are planning a panel discussion exploring how a mid-size city newspaper was able to dig up this extraordinary story. The event, called "Double Exposure," is designed to bring to life how the Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis used a precedent-…
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National Press Club condemns Turkish police attacks on journalists
The National Press Club criticized police aggression against at least 12 journalists in Turkey who had been covering public protests in Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir. Journalists working for a range of Turkish and foreign news organizations over the course of two days during the week of Sept. 9 sustained injuries from rubber bullets and, in at least one instance, from a stun grenade, according to Reporters Without Borders. Some of the injured journalists said it appeared police launched the attacks because they knew their targets were media workers. Police did not begin their assault until after…
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National Press Club lauds Senate panel approval of media shield bill
The National Press Club Sept. 12 praised the Senate Judiciary Committee for advancing legislation that would institute a federal shield to protect reporters from having to disclose confidential sources in many instances. The Press Club views the legislation as better than other recent attempts to establish a shield and an improvement on the current situation, where reporters cannot guarantee anonymous sources confidentiality as long as courts can seek to compel journalists to disclose the sources’ names. The Club has expressed concern about the increasing number of prosecutions of government…
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Press Club continues fight for government transparency, First Amendment protections
The National Press Club, along with dozens of other nonprofit journalism organizations and media companies, has urged courts and federal agencies in the last few weeks to safeguard maximum transparency for government operations and strong First Amendment protections for journalists. The Club has joined a series of "friend of the court" briefs and letters: Urging the United States Supreme Court, in Johnson v. New York, to review a case challenging the routine closure of courtrooms in New York when undercover officers testify in "buy-and-bust" cases. Asking the Supreme Court to overturn a…
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