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Club leaders urge extradition for Daniel Pearl’s kidnappers after Pakistani court decision
National Press Club leaders expressed concern about the Pakistan Supreme Court’s exoneration on Thursday of four men accused of luring Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl to his beheading in 2002. Pearl’s murder, which was videotaped, shocked the world and was soon followed by Islamic State terrorists filming the gruesome killing of several captives. The National Press Club honored Pearl posthumously with its John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award in 2002. The four men were convicted in 2002 of kidnapping and murder. One of the men -- British national Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh -- was sentenced…
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Club leaders denounce assault on Agency for Global Media
National Press Club leaders on Thursday, Oct. 29, denounced an attempt by the Trump administration to take away the independence of news outlets such as the Voice of America. Michael Pack, the chief of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VoA, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other news organizations, rescinded on Monday a rule that established a firewall between the agency's journalists and its management—a separation that is standard practice in the media. “This move would explicitly jettison the reportorial independence that has differentiated U.S.-government funded news…
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Press Leaders Decry Assault on Global Media Agency
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2020--National Press Club leaders denounced an attempt by the Trump administration to take away the independence of news outlets such as the Voice of America. Michael Pack, the chief of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VoA, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other news organizations, rescinded on Monday a rule that established a firewall between the agency's journalists and its management—a separation that is standard practice in the media. “This move would explicitly jettison the reportorial independence that has differentiated U.S.-government…
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National Press Club To Unveil Freedom Clock For Austin Tice, August 14
WASHINGTON – July 31 – The National Press Club will mark the anniversary of the abduction and detention of Award-winning journalist and Marine veteran Austin Tice on Friday, August 14 by unveiling a Freedom Clock that will display a dynamic record of the time Austin has been unjustly detained in Syria. The event will take place in the lobby of the Club by the staircase at noon, Aug. 14. Reservations are required for contact tracing reasons. Please email Lindsay Underwood at [email protected] to reserve. The Clock will be in the lobby of the Club which typically hosts 250,000 visitors…
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National Press Club and Journalism Institute call for renewal of VOA journalists’ visas
WASHINGTON -- The National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute urge the United States Agency for Global Media and its new executive, Michael Pack, to renew expiring visas for foreign journalists working in the U.S. for Voice of America's international services. According to reports on NPR and in The Washington Post this week, Pack has paused the visa renewals, placing dozens of journalists under a cloud of uncertainty and threatening not only their job security but their personal safety as well. If USAGM decides not to renew these visas, many journalists would be…
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Maria Ressa to be honored with National Press Club's 2020 international Press Freedom Award
Maria Ressa, executive editor of Rappler, winner of the National Press Club's international 2020 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. Photo: LeAnne Jazul/Rappler The National Press Club has selected Maria Ressa, a fearless journalist convicted in the Philippines on trumped-up charges of cyber libel, to be honored with its international 2020 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. Ressa, executive editor of Rappler, an online news site in the Philippines, has been the target of repeated efforts by the government of President Rodrigo Duterte to silence her. Last year, Ressa was named among the "…
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National Press Club and NPC Journalism Institute Statement on U.S. Agency for Global Media
The following is a joint statement from National Press Club President Michael Freedman and National Press Club Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane on the decision by Michael Pack, the new chief executive of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, to dismiss the heads of the agency’s international news services. "We are deeply troubled by Michael Pack’s swift and wholesale firings of top United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) news executives. While Mr. Pack retains the right to shape his own team, his actions suggest more of a purge than selective and deliberative executive…
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Wife of Princeton grad student jailed in Iran to speak Thursday
Marking the third anniversary of Princeton University graduate student Xiyue Wang’s imprisonment in Iran, his wife, Hua Qu, will comment on his case and its status at a National Press Club Newsmaker event Thursday, Aug. 8, at 10 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room. In August 2016, Xiyue was conducting research for his doctoral thesis in Tehran when he was arrested, charged and convicted of espionage and sentenced to 10 years in prison by Iranian authorities. A naturalized American citizen, Wang has not seen his wife or six-year-old son in three years. He is being held amid the nearly 40-year-old…
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Club and Institute launch special campaign toward freedom for journalist held in Syria
Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of democracy, and the foundation of our work at the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute. This month we are launching a special press freedom campaign to support the only American journalist being held overseas: Austin Tice, the 2015 Aubuchon Award Honoree and an Honorary Member of the National Press Club. Austin was detained in Syria seven years ago on August 14, and we hope you will all send a message that his freedom matters. Support for the Night Out for Austin campaign generated huge publicity, significant funds and…
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National Press Club announces 2019 press freedom honorees
The National Press Club will give its annual John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award this year to a journalist in Kashmir jailed for nearly a year for his reporting and to a U.S. reporter who has doggedly produced important accountability journalism despite harassment from powerful people. Each year, the Club gives its Aubuchon award to one journalist from the United States and one from overseas who bravely pushes to disclose the truth in trying circumstances. The foreign award this year goes to Aasif Sultan, a journalist with the Kashmir Narrator monthly magazine. The domestic award goes to…
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