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Greater U Street Jazz Collective returning to Reliable Source Thursday, Oct. 29
The Greater U Street Jazz Collective will return to the Reliable Source by popular demand for a New Orleans Jazz Night and Dinner on Thursday, Oct. 29. Dinner starts at 5:30 p.m., and jazz at 6:30 p.m. The evening's dinner menu and specialty drinks are listed below. Domestic and imported beers and Club red and white wine will be available also to complement your dinner. MenuShrimp Gumbo over white rice:Shrimp, chicken, andouille sausage okra and sweet tomatoes $22 Pan fried Red Snapper with Shrimp Diane Sauce Red beans and rice with steamed green beans $22 Vegetarian yellow summer squash…
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Band White Ford Bronco to rock Spelling Bee after party Wednesday, Oct. 21
White Ford Bronco will rock the after party for the 2015 National Press Club "Politicians vs. Press" spelling bee. The event will see six members of Congress face off against six members of the news media in a hilarious spelling competition moderated by the Scripps National Spelling Bee Wednesday, Oct. 21. White Ford Bronco is Washington D.C.'s beloved all-90s cover band, known for playing hit tunes by *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Alanis Morissette and Britney Spears. The National Press Club held its first spelling bee in 1913. President Woodrow Wilson and members of his Cabinet were among the 1,…
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Press freedom panel to cover when and where photographers have right to shoot Tuesday, Oct. 20
The proliferation of cellphone cameras, a heightened sensitivity by law enforcement authorities to being photographed and several well-publicized incidents have brought the right to photograph in public into sharp focus. The National Press Club's Photography Committee, in collaboration with the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), will hold a panel discussion on "The Right to Photograph and Record on the Ground and in the Air" on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 6 p.m. The session will be held in the Broadcast Center, Studio A, on the fourth floor. The event is free for all attendees thanks…
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Club podcast features 40-year broadcast veteran Fuss
In the latest edition of Update-1, the Broadcast Committee's podcast series, Camille Bohannon talks with award-winning network radio news correspondent Bob Fuss, a retired 40-year radio veteran, who has written a book called “Kidnapped by Nuns." Born with birth defects and on crutches all his life, he nevertheless covered news stories for UPI, NBC and Mutual Radio and spent many years as CBS’s Capitol Hill correspondent. Fuss also climbed mountains, skied and ran rapids leading to humorous and dangerous adventures. He covered sensational trials and he interviewed celebrities. Fuss calls…
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State of the U.S. Economy
Mr. Rohatyn assessed the health of the international and national economies. He also discussed the imminent budget summits and negotiations. Mr. Rohatyn was one of the main architects of New York City's massive financial bailout in the mid-1970s. He is an expert on corporate mergers and acquisitions.
Type: Media
“Get it Online" speaker explains importance of native advertising
Jeffrey Turner, Huffington Post’s senior director, head of ad product and monetization, explained at a "Get It Online" event Oct. 13 why native advertising, which looks like the content of the media where it appear – a news article in a newspaper, for example - has become a critically important ingredient of more and more advertising investments. Turner, whose role has recently expanded to include TechCrunch and gadget, encouraged the “Get it Online” audience to rethink the role of native in their mix of advertising products The ad world is “becoming polarized” as technology makes it easier…
Type: News
International correspondents: Learn how to protect yourselves, Monday, Nov. 9
A panel of foreign correspondents and representatives from news organizations will discuss protection for freelance foreign correspondents Monday, Nov. 9, from 7 p.m.to 8:30 p.m. in the Conference Rooms. As more news organizations close down foreign bureaus, reporting from conflict zones is falling to freelance journalists more than ever before. What do you need to know to report effectively and also protect yourself? What are news organizations doing to protect their freelance correspondents? The panel will include: Delphine Halgand, director of the Washington, D.C., office of Reporters…
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Documentary and panel reveal decades-old government anti-gay actions
A federal effort to identify and bar gay Americans from working in the government still reverberates in today’s news, according to members of an Oct. 7 panel at recent National Press Club event. The Club's Events Committee held the discussion after a screening of the documentary “Uniquely Nasty: The U.S. Government’s War on Gays.” The documentary, reported by Yahoo’s Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff, detailed how the “sex deviates” program from the 1950s to early 1970s secretly collected hundreds of thousands of files on the sex lives of American citizens. The federal…
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National Press Club Statement On Jason Rezaian Trial
Following is a statement by John Hughes, president of the National Press Club, on the announced conviction by an Iranian court of Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian: Now it is time for the community of nations to step forward as one and demand the release of Jason Rezaian from prison in Iran. This has been a sham trial from the beginning. The process was closed to the press. There were no witnesses. There was no evidence. Jason is guilty of nothing. He was taken from his home without charges and held without charges for months. This is absurd. No nation should be allowed to behave in…
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Carson says he will continue to 'expose' the press
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told a National Press Club Luncheon Oct. 9 that "I will continue to expose the press" in an effort to prod it until it fulfills the spirit of the Constitution to be the ally of the people. "I don't particularly care whether the press likes me," the neurosurgeon said in a wide-ranging speech that frequently returned to critical comments about the media. Though his words were strong, Carson delivered them in his usual soft-spoken even gentle manner. In reply to President John Hughes' traditionally clever final question – in this case, whether he…
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