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U.S. special presidential envoy for hostage affairs to brief on Austin Tice case, Nov. 13
Robert O'Brien, the Trump Administration's point person for hostage affairs, will update reporters on the case of kidnapped journalist Austin Tice on Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at the National Press Club in the Murrow Room. The Club and the Free Austin Tice Coalition, which includes The Washington Post, McClatchy, Reporters Without Borders, and Georgetown University, will announce the details of a new project, "Night Out For Austin Tice." Tice, a freelance journalist, was kidnapped in August 2012 while covering the conflict in Syria. The U.S. government has said it believes Tice is being held by…
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National Press Club award-winning journalist to judge who denied him asylum: "I must implore you for my life"
After eight hours of waiting outside an immigration courtroom, journalist Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto on Monday had an opportunity to make a personal appeal to the judge who last year ordered him deported to the country where he has been threatened with death. The hearing was delayed when Gutiérrez's attorney discovered that the judge had not read or seen crucial evidence on the journalist's behalf. "I must implore you for my life," Gutiérrez told Judge Robert Hough, adding that he was also appealing for his son, Oscar, who fled to the United States as a teenager with his father after the veteran…
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National Press Club to hold moment of silence for Jamal Khashoggi Monday
The National Press Club will hold a moment of silence for Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi on Monday, Oct. 22, at about 1:15 p.m. Club members, staff and journalists will participate. People should gather near the main staircase in the lobby at 1 p.m. to organize and to hear some brief remarks. At about 1:15 p.m. on Oct. 2, Mr. Khashoggi was last seen alive walking into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where he was killed moments later by representatives of the Saudi government. The Club is located at 529 14th Street N.W. on the 13th floor. The National Press Club, founded in…
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Statement from National Press Club President Andrea Edney on Saudi confirmation of Jamal Khashoggi’s death
National Press Club President Andrea Edney issued the following statement Friday after the Saudi government acknowledged that Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at its consulate in Turkey: Along with journalists everywhere we mourn the death of our colleague Jamal Khashoggi. We hope that President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, will respond appropriately to the lies it is now clear they were told by Saudi leaders. We join the call for a United Nations investigation into this atrocity. The best memorial for a journalist is pursuit of the truth. Founded in…
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National Press Club wants answers on missing Saudi journalist
National Press Club leaders called on Saudi Arabian authorities to explain the whereabouts of a Saudi journalist who visited that country's consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 3 and never emerged. Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post and a former editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan, has been in self-imposed exile in the United States since 2017. He has been outspoken in his criticism of the Saudi government. Khashoggi fled Saudi Arabia citing Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's crackdown on even mildly critical journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists has…
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National Press Club outraged by reports on missing Saudi journalist
National Press Club leaders expressed profound concern Saturday about the continued disappearance of a Saudi journalist and especially about reports he may have been killed by Saudi government personnel. Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post and a former editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan, visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 3 and never emerged. On Saturday came reports that Turkish officials have concluded Saudi officials killed Khashoggi in the consulate. "If Khashoggi is alive and in detention, we call for his immediate release," said Club President…
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National Press Club to Congress: Don't let drone regulations interfere with media coverage
The National Press Club on Wednesday is warning that new counter-drone authorities Congress is set to enact in the FAA re-authorization could interfere with media coverage and public access to important information. The House on Wednesday is scheduled to vote on a Federal Aviation Administration authorization bill that provides law enforcement officials with sweeping authority to track and destroy drones near certain government operations. The Club shares the concerns of the National Press Photographers Association that the legislation does not include sufficient First Amendment protections…
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National Press Club condemns convictions of Reuters reporters in Myanmar
The National Press Club on Monday condemned the jail terms handed down to two journalists who exposed a genocide in Myanmar and committed to work to free them. The reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo of Reuters news service, are this year’s winners of the Club’s international John Aubuchon Press Freedom award. “When the Press Club extends the Aubuchon Press Freedom award to journalists it means we are committed to standing by those reporters until they are free and returned to their loved ones,” said Club President Andrea Edney. “We are making that commitment with this award to these two…
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National Press Club honors former Denver Post editor with Press Freedom Award
The National Press Club Board of Governors announced Aug. 23 that Chuck Plunkett, a former editor at the Denver Post, will receive a 2018 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. In April of this year, Plunkett was responsible for producing a special six-page editorial section of the Denver Post that took the extraordinary step of criticizing the paper’s owners, a private equity company called Alden Global Capital. The lead editorial in the special section -- titled, “As Vultures Circle, the Denver Post Must be Saved" -- decried the decimation of the newspaper’s staff in recent years even as Alden…
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National Press Club urges freedom for Shawkan in open letter to Egyptian ambassador
On the eve of a scheduled verdict in the long-pending case of the photojournalist Shawkan, the National Press Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute sent an open letter to Egypt’s top diplomat in the United States about the Club’s 2016 Press Freedom award winner: Ambassador Yasser RedaEmbassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt3521 International Court NWWashington, DC 20008 July 27, 2018 Dear Mr. Ambassador, On Saturday, a court in your country is scheduled to deliver a long-delayed verdict in the case of Mahmoud Abu Zeid, the photojournalist known as Shawkan. Prosecutors are seeking a death…
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