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John Hughes inauguration highlight reel
Highlights from the inauguration of 108th National Press Club president John Hughes.
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John Hughes inaugural address
108th NPC president John Hughes delivers his inaugural address on Jan. 24, 2015.
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Michael R. Bloomberg speaks at John Hughes inauguration
Michael R. Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg LP & Bloomberg Philanthropies and 108th Mayor of New York City, was the keynote speaker at the inauguration of 108th National Press Club president John Hughes on Jan. 24, 2015.
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NPC International Cultural Evening
The National Press Club hosted an International Cultural Evening on November 19, 2014. Cultural performances featured the time-honored Chinese Lion Dance, traditional Punjabi folk dances, energetic steel drummers from Trinidad and Tobago, a graceful Asian Dance, the lively South American Bachata Congress and spirited Ethiopian musicians and dancers. South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was given the NPC President’s Award to recognize his lifetime of achievements, focusing on how the National Press Club has worked closely with him, starting with the South African Night honoring Nelson…
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NPC Panel: Civil Liberties Dead Zone
"Civil Liberties Dead Zone: Do First and Fourth Amendment Rights Not Apply at the Border?" examines known cases of media workers and journalists who have been interrogated at the U.S. border by Homeland Security Department officials who have demanded access to their laptops, thumb drives and other digital devices. Defended as a tool in the fight against crime and terrorism, the DHS policy has aroused the concern of press freedom advocates who worry the practice could jeopardize reporters' sensitive information -- including the identities of anonymous sources -- particularly if journalists are…
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Ms. Quote: Why Are Women Missing From the News?
What are we missing when our reporting doesn’t adequately include women experts and women subjects? Why should we care and how can we increase women's voices in the news? A panel of experts explores the lack of female sources in news coverage. Panelists include Matt Winkler, editor-in-chief Bloomberg News, Sally Buzbee, AP Washington bureau chief, Ken Strickland, NBC Washington bureau chief, Ruth Marcus, Washington Post op-ed columnist, Anna Palmer, Politico senior Washington correspondent, and Jill Zuckman, managing director SKDKnickerbocker. Linda Kramer Jenning, Georgetown University…
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Where Were You When Kennedy Was Shot?
Four journalists who went on to prominent careers share their experiences in Dallas on Nov. 22 1963 when Lee Harvey Oswald's shots changed their lives -- and the life of the nation -- forever. CBS News Senior Correspondent Bob Schieffer was a cub reporter on the Fort Worth Star Telegram when he answered a phone call from Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, asking for a ride to Dallas to see her son. PBS NewsHour anchor Jim Lehrer covered the arrival of Air Force One for the Dallas Times Herald before being plunged into the day's events that took him to Parkland Hospital and the Dallas police…
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The Saturday Night Massacre - A 40-year Retrospective
The 'Saturday Night Massacre' that shook the national and started President Nixon's slide to resignation pitted power against rule of law, several of the key players said Oct. 17, 2013 at a National Press Club panel commemorating the 40th anniversary of the event. Panelists included: Bob Woodward William Ruckelshaus Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Philip Heymann Jill Wine-Banks Jim Doyle
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NPC Panel - Double Exposure
An October 10, 2013 National Press Club panel discusses how a mid-size city newspaper was able to unearth the extraordinary story of how an iconic photographer of the civil rights movement led a double life as an FBI informant. The panel brought to light how the Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis used a precedent-setting Freedom of Information Act lawsuit--and years of reporting--to piece together the facts about Ernest Withers. Withers was a photographer to whom Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders had given close access. But, it turned out, he was at the same time…
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Helen Thomas Memorial Service
Several hundred people attended the National Press Club on Oct. 5, 2013 to pay tribute to the late, groundbreaking journalist Helen Thomas. They were treated to humorous and poignant stories from a host of her prominent friends -- among them ABC News reporter Sam Donaldson, PBS "News Hour" anchor Judy Woodfuff, USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page, actress Diane Ladd and present "Dear Abby" columnist Jeanne Phillips.
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