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2013 Fourth Estate Award Gala Honoring Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell, veteran NBC Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and host of MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports, was honored as the 2013 recipient of the Fourth Estate Award, the National Press Club's most-honored prize at a gala dinner Friday, October 4. She is the 41st recipient of the Fourth Estate Award, which recognizes a journalist who has made significant contributions to the field through a lifetime of excellence.
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2013 National Press Club Centennial Spelling Bee
Beltway politicians and reporters clashed onstage at The National Press Club's Centennial Spelling Bee on September 18, 2013. Marvel at the epiglottal dexterity of the contestants! Watch the press team take a circuitous path to victory! See Sen. Tim Kaine's nonpareil triumph over Politico's Rebecca Sinderbrand to win the trophy!
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NPC Spelling Bee: Pols vs. Press - Sept. 18, 2013
Lawmakers and journalists are getting ready to take the stage for that most American of showdowns: a spelling bee. And the public may not get another chance to see such a spectacle for a century. One hundred years ago, the National Press Club organized a similar spelling bee, pitting members of Congress against Beltway reporters. In 1913, President Wilson attended, a member of his Cabinet moderated and an Ohio congressman won. Now the lawmakers have a chance to solidify their supreme spelling skills; the journalists have a shot at redemption. On Sept. 18, 2013, the Press Club is reprising the…
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NPC Panel - Government Public Affairs Offices: More Hindrance Than Help?
The National Press Club hosted a panel on August 12, 2013 to debate whether federal public-affairs offices hinder more than help the cause of open government. The panel included a number of experts from the fields of journalism, public relations and academia who can give voice to multiple perspectives.
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2013 NPC Journalism Awards Dinner
Full video from the 2013 National Press Club Journalism Awards Dinner. Among the honorees: SCOTUSblog wins the Breaking News Award for its coverage of the Supreme Court's health care ruling, and Time Magazine's Michael Scherer wins a top award for political analysis.
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The New International Media: Filling A Vacuum or Pushing An Agenda?
The National Press Club’s Press Freedom Committee held a panel discussion on May 2, the night before World Press Freedom Day, about the growing role of media organizations that are at least partly government-funded. As the press in most western democracies has had to retrench in recent years, cutting staffs and abandoning foreign (and domestic) bureaus, there is one bright spot for foreign coverage: Al Jazeera, CCTV and Voice of Russia Radio have vibrant bureaus in Washington and elsewhere. However, their growth has also caused considerable heartburn, because all are at least partially funded…
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NPC Special Event: the Inauguration of Angela Greiling Keane
Angela Greiling Keane, a reporter for Bloomberg News, was inaugurated as the 106th president of the National Press Club was on Saturday, January 26. Former NPC president Donna Leiwand Leger served as the Mistress of Ceremonies for the formal dinner and celebration in the crowded ball room. The evening was marked with a proclamation from DC Mayor Vincent Gray, congratulations from Ambassadors, and a keynote address from Tim Franklin, managing editor for Bloomberg News. With her daughter holding the oversize plastic wedge of Wisconsin cheese the incoming president took her oath of office as…
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A Celebration of Suffrage at The National Press Club
A gala National Press Club reception commemorating the 1913 march in Washington that led to voting rights for women. Featuring speeches by National Women’s History Museum president Joan Wages, ABC-7 anchor Maureen Bunyan and NPC president Angela Greiling Keane. Also includes a panel discussion moderated by Newsweek contributing editor and “McLaughlin Group” panelist Eleanor Clift, including Wages, radio personality Erika Falk, J.D. Zahniser, co-author of a book on suffragist Alice Paul, and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, historian and author of "African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote:…
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South Africa Night at The National Press Club
South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, former U.S. Ambassador Edward Perkins and the Taratibu Youth Association dance troupe headline a Nov 26, 2012 National Press Club event in celebration of the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela. Special thanks and credit to DC Hotspots and Adam Ishaeik and Asrate Asfaw Teferra for this video.
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Journalists' Digital Security - National Press Club Special Event
The National Press Club’s Press Freedom Committee held a panel discussion on Oct. 24, 2012 featuring Matthew Cole, Joseph Hall and Jonathan Hutcheson to discuss how digital technology, while an enormous boon to journalists, also comes with significant security pitfalls and far too few reporters are aware of these dangers. More so than the general public, journalists are particularly at risk of being targeted as a result of the unique role they play in accumulating and disseminating highly sensitive information.
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