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Expert panel to weigh effect of federal public affairs practices on open government
The National Press Club will host a panel next week to debate whether federal public-affairs offices hinder more than help the cause of open government. The panel includes a number of experts from the fields of journalism, public relations and academia who can give voice to multiple perspectives. The event is sponsored by the National Press Club’s Press Freedom Committee and will convene Aug. 12 from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the Club’s Lisagor Room. Click here to register now. Although executive branch communications offices can be useful, at times indispensable, in helping the press cover…
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Government Public Affairs Offices: More Hindrance Than Help for Open Government?
A National Press Club panel will convene from 6:30 until 8:00 p.m. Aug. 12 in the Lisagor Room to debate federal public-affairs practices that some say can cut the public off from its government officials. Although executive branch communications offices can be useful, at times indispensable, in helping the press cover the government, reporters need to always be free to seek information in other ways. Yet doing so has become difficult to a degree that some say jeopardizes open government. Public affairs offices increasingly require that reporters conduct all interviews through the press…
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National Press Club urges Obama administration to press Jordan on censorship
The National Press Club joins other national and international news organizations in calling on the government of Jordan to reverse its decision to block more than 200 news websites and to revoke the law upon which it was based, which requires the licensing of journalists in the country. In addition, the Club calls upon the United States government to support freedom of the press in Jordan, exercising the influence it has as a major provider of foreign aid to the Hashemite Kingdom. This year, U.S. taxpayers are scheduled to send $670 million in aid to Jordan -- $25 million of which is…
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NPC joins other groups in pushing for more openness in Wikileaks Trial
The National Press Club this week signed on to a friend-of-the-court brief urging that the press be given prompt access to documents filed in the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, who provided a large number of U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks in 2010. The amicus brief was filed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a number of media organizations. It supports a Center for Constitutional Rights' suit seeking a preliminary injunction from the U.S. District Court in Baltimore that would require the U.S. military court trying Manning to release all filed documents as…
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In the wake of seizure of reporters’ communications records, First Amendment expert to visit Club June 11
The Justice Department has been monitoring reporters’ communications as it seeks to prosecute leaks of classified information. Journalists have cried foul, and they worry about a chilling effect on potential sources. Questions about the balance between national security and press freedom have rarely been more pressing. Nobody knows the ins and outs of these issues better than First Amendment attorney and press-freedom advocate Floyd Abrams. He’ll share his insights on the latest controversies and read from his new book on Tuesday, June 11 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the National Press Club’s…
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National Press Club to Host First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams
As U.S. prosecutors increasingly monitor reporters to get to the bottom of leaks, the National Press Club's Press Freedom Committee will host leading First Amendment attorney and press-freedom advocate Floyd Abrams, who will discuss these issues and his new book. Abrams, a senior partner in Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP, has been at the forefront of nearly every major press-freedom and free-speech case in the last 40 years—from the Pentagon papers in 1971 to the Citizens United case in 2010. His new book, "Friend of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment," culls in one…
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NPC Welcomes Review of Leak Probes but Still Worries About Judicial Overreach
The National Press Club on Friday welcomed President Obama's directive that the Justice Department reexamine its policies for investigating leaks to the press. But the Club's president, Angela Greiling Keane, said journalists are worried about what appears to be a pattern of judicial overreach by the Obama administration. "We are greatly concerned that the Justice Department's actions in these cases will have a chilling effect on would-be whistleblowers," Greiling Keane said. Obama's decision to order the review, announced in a speech on Thursday, comes on the heels of reports about unusually…
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Club Stands With Dozens of News Groups Protesting Associated Press Investigation
The National Press Club joined more than four dozen media organizations to call for the Justice Department to return phone records of Associated Press reporters obtained in what was described as "an overreaching dragnet for news gathering materials." The Club joined the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, The Washington Post, The New York Times, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Society of Professional Journalists, among others, in protesting the investigation, which they said calls into question the integrity the Obama administration's ability to balance police…
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NPC Lends its Voice to Coalition Decrying Sentencing of Ethiopian Blogger
The National Press Club joined with other human rights and journalism organizations in criticizing an Ethiopian court decision upholding an 18-year jail sentence for a blogger in that country. The groups say the man, Eskinder Nega, has been unfairly convicted on specious terrorism charges. The National Press Club spoke out last year about Nega’s case. "We are deeply disappointed that Nega has been sent to prison, when his only 'offense' appears to have been writing critically about the government," said NPC President Angela Greiling Keane, a Bloomberg News reporter. Nega received a press…
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National Press Club Announces Press Freedom Award Winners for 2013
On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the National Press Club announced the winners of its 2013 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Awards: Zeynep Kuray, a woman reporter from Turkey, which jails more journalists than any other nation; and, in the United States, "The Whistleblower." Each year, the NPC confers its Aubuchon award on people whose work and lives have advanced the cause of press freedom and transparency. The annual award goes to one domestic recipient and one international one. This year, for the first time, the Club is honoring a group of people—whistleblowers--rather than an…
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