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Good news for NPC members: Entry in Club's journalism contest is free for you
Members of the National Press Club should enter their best work from 2015 in the Club’s annual journalism contest. Remember that entering, which costs $50 for nonmembers, is free for members. To enter, just log in to the Club's website and go to the awards page. Then you can get the recognition your work deserves from the National Press Club, a national leader among journalism organizations. The contest will recognize winning entries for top news photo, feature photo, breaking news for print/online and for broadcast, best work in consumer journalism and many other categories. The deadline is…
Type: News
Watch 'Sweet 16,' rest of March Madness with $3 beer and wine, special menu at Reliable Source
March Madness continues at the National Press Club! The original 68 teams that began competing in the NCAA men's basketball tournament last week has been pared to the "Sweet Sixteen," and they begin playing in the tournament's quarterfinal round that starts today. Watch the action -- as well as the rest of the tournament's concluding rounds -- through April 4 in the exciting atmosphere of the Club's Reliable Source restaurant. The games will be shown in the restaurant's Truman Lounge on six large plasma screens. Members and their guests can root for their favorite teams while enjoying $3…
Type: News
Practice public speaking at next meeting of Club's Toastmasters group, March 28
Do you want to become a better speaker or feel more at-ease when speaking in front of a group? If your answer is yes, or even maybe or you're just curious, then join the National Press Club’s Toastmasters International group at its next meeting Monday, March 28, at 7 p.m. at the Club. The group offers a comfortable and friendly environment in which to develop your speaking and listening skills while having fun. The group also has contests. Grace Jiaying Li and Leslie Kingsley recently won the club’s international contest in the speech and speech evaluation categories respectively. They will…
Type: News
Club members go behind the scenes at NPR
Some 15 National Press Club members were treated March 22 to a private tour of the Washington, D.C., headquarters of NPR. Members were able to get an inside look at the organization's modern two-story newsroom, complete with cubicles upon cubicles of reporters, editors and others, including the Club’s very own Marilyn Geewax, Vice Chair of the NPC Board of Governors. She is NPR’s senior business editor. Knowing how hard the newsroom staff was working, Club members brought a platter of cookies to keep the staffers fueled. A tour highlight was an inside look at one of the studios NPR uses to…
Type: News
Group announces plan at Newsmaker to recruit millennials to run for office in November
Laquan Austion, CEO of a new political organization, Action for America outlined at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference March 22 a bipartisan effort to recruit 100 members of the millennial generation to seek state and local political office in the coming election. “America needs a vibrant political movement for the 21st Century,” said Austion. “Not one that tells people to wait in line.” The initiative seeks to unite candidates behind a 10-point program of new ideas for the United States, Austion said. Austion said that millennials have grown up watching “political dysfunction”…
Type: News
Situation in Nicaragua
Mr. Leal discussed current events in Nicaragua and the results of the meeting of the Partnership for Democracy in the Development of Central America.
Type: Media
Did You Know? You and a guest can sit up front at Club luncheons
Did you know that the Club reserves the two, front tables for members and their guests to each NPC speaker’s luncheon? We want to provide our members with the opportunity to be up close to all of our marquee speakers who visit the Club. The seats at these tables are on a first come, first serve basis so make sure you arrive early. The cost of each luncheon is $24 for National Press Club members. Each member is allowed one guest at the member price. Upcoming luncheons include the IRS Commissioner John Koskinen tomorrow -- Thursday, March 24. To reserve your ticket please click here. The member…
Type: News
Current, past AP correspondents to discuss changes in international reporting environment, March 29
In less than a week, the International Correspondents Committee will host an evening panel discussion on changes in the foreign reporting environment. The Tuesday, March 29, event will run from 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. in the Holeman Lounge. Tickets for the event are free for club members and $10 for the general public. For tickets, click here. Headlining the panel will be Giovanna Dell'Orto, a former AP newswoman and current associate professor of journalism at the University of Minnesota, who has written a new book, "AP Foreign Correspondents in Action." The book delves into what it takes to…
Type: News
Expert panel expects rising tension in the South China Sea
A panel of experts on Asian and maritime issues predicted to a March 21 National Press Club Newsmaker audience that tension in the South China Sea will increase after an international court ruling expected in the next few months. China has claimed large areas of the South Chinese Sea, including the Spratly Islands also claimed by the Philippines, which has sued under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Gregory Poling of the Center for Strategic and International Studies explained. Poling said he expects at least part of the anticipated ruling to go against China on…
Type: News
Members invited to symposium on spa industry at Club, tomorrow
Member Bernard Burt, co-founder of the Washington Spa Allaince, invites fellow National Press Club members to an all-day symposium on the future of the spa industry tomorrow, March 22,in the Holeman Lounge. Entitled “The New Language of Spa” and sponsored by the alliance, the event will run from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Keynoter will be Philippe Bourguignon, senior vice president at the Revolution Group, an investment firm founded by AOL founder Steve Case. Speakers will discuss topics such as how the Watergate Hotel plans to position its Argentta Spa; a report on the Global Wellness Summit; and…
Type: News