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Build Your Speaking Skills With Toastmasters at NPC, Jan. 11
Would you like to enhance your communication effectiveness and take your journalistic skills to greater heights? Get rid of those “uhms” and “ahs”? Tame your nerves when you speak in front of people? If so, consider joining the National Press Toastmasters Club. For less than the cost of three weekly cups of coffee, the Toastmasters program can help you enhance your public speaking presence and prepare you for any occasion you find yourself in front of an audience of any size. Toastmasters has been at the National Press Club for more than three decades. We meet on the 13th floor at 7 p.m. on…
Type: News
Taco Night Change in Pricing Effective Friday
Notice to Club members: National Press Club members and their fewer than five guests who purchase two drinks per person enjoy the Friday taco bar in the Reliable Source Pub for no additional charge. Effective this Friday, Jan. 15 the price of the taco bar will be $8 for members and guests who do not purchase two drinks per person. The $8 charge also applies for a group of more than five guests, no matter how many drinks each person orders in the McClendon Room, Games Room or Mezzanine. NPC Management
Type: News
Job Opening: Research Reports - Kiplinger
The Kiplinger Washington Editors, one of America’s most respected business and personal-finance publishers, is seeking a bright, motivated individual for an entry-level research reporter position on its Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine staff. The reporter will fact-check articles for the magazine and Kiplinger.com Web site, provide research and reporting assistance to writers, and contribute content to the magazine and Kiplinger.com Web site. Applicant must have a B.A. in Journalism or related field. Excellent fact-checking and research skills required, plus attention to grammar,…
Type: News
Did you Know?: Trivia Nights
Did you know that the National Press Club hosts a monthly trivia night? Test your knowledge at the next edition of Pub Quiz, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. in the NPC Reliable Source Truman Lounge. No need to reserve. Bring your own team or show up and join one. Pub Quiz is open only to Club members and their guests. For more information about your membership benefits, please send an email to [email protected].
Type: News
Future of the Environmental Protection Agency
Mr. Reilly spoke to the National Press Club on the effectiveness of the Enviromental Protection Agency and its policies, along with the new health risks caused by pollution.
Type: Media
Latest Club Podcast Starts Series on Social Media
Update-1, the Club's podcast, begins 2016 by focusing on social media. In the first of a five-part series, National Press Club Board of Governors member Molly McCluskey discusses the role of digital platforms in journalism with another NPC board member, Evan McMorris-Santoro, the White House reporter for BuzzFeed News. They talk about BuzzFeed's progression as a journalistic entity, the diversity of news coverage that BuzzFeed and other news organizations provide, and the need for quality journalism regardless which social media platform is used for distribution. All podcasts are on www.press…
Type: News
Celebrate Bartender Richard McClary's Retirement Wednesday Jan. 13 at 3:30 p.m.
All National Press Club members are invited to a cake cutting ceremony Wednesday, Jan. 13, to help celebrate (many will say mourn) the retirement of Richard McClary, the Club's long serving bartender. The event will take place at 3:30 p.m. in the First Amendment Lounge. Richard served drinks at the Press Club for 49 years, becoming the longest tenured employee in Club history. Richard, who officially retired at the end of last year, will be joined by his wife, Loraine, other family members, and many friends at his retirement party.
Type: News
Club bartender Richard McClary hangs up the bar towel
On Fridays when I log off from work, I often tell my editor I'm signing off to dig into some National Press Club tacos and get some much needed R&R -- Richard McClary and Raul Mansilla, the Club’s night bartenders. Unfortunately for me and many Club members, McClary has decided it's time to hang up the bar towel and get some R&R of his own. After 49 years at the Club, McClary, better known as “Rich” or “Richie” to Club members, retired on Dec. 31. The Club is hosting a reception to honor McClary at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, in the First Amendment Lounge. The event is open to Club…
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Burr Takes Gavel from Hughes at Friday, Jan. 15 Noon General Membership Meeting
Join us on Friday, Jan. 15 when National Press Club President John Hughes hands the gavel to President-elect Tommy Burr at a General Membership Meeting. The meeting will begin at noon with a buffet lunch in the conference rooms, along the hallway to the Fourth Estate restaurant. The business portion of the meeting will include reports by NPC officers. Members planning to attend are requested to RSVP to [email protected].
Type: News
Watch GOP Debate on Thursday, Jan. 14 starting at 7 p.m. in the Truman Lounge
The Reliable Source will host a GOP Debate Watch in the Truman Lounge with wide screen TV of the broadcast from the North Charleston, South Carolina, Coliseum on Thursday, Jan. 14 starting at 7:00 p.m. A special food and beverage menu will be available for this occasion. Carolina Shrimp and Grits $18 New York Bologna and Onions $15 Florida Mahi Mahi, Cuban rice and pineapple coleslaw $18 Specialty Drinks: Key Lime Martini $7 Sauvignon Blanc, Rutherford Ranch $7 Shiraz, Shoofly $7.25 For information please call (202) 662-7443 or e-mail [email protected]
Type: News