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How to pitch and perform on Network News July 25
Calling all lawyers, doctors, former athletes, professors and more! Are you an ‘expert’ in your field? Do you think you’re good enough to be a panelist on TV? Stop dreaming and find out how to make it happen! In one day at the National Press Club Broadcast Center on the 4th Floor of the National Press Building, you’ll network with a panel of industry influencers, network bookers, producers, agents and high-powered publicists. They’re booking panels and experts daily on CNN, Fox News, CBS, NBC, ABC, Food Network, Cooking Channel and more. Then, get TV savvy with on-camera media training with…
Type: News
Lithuanian Independence
Senator Moynihan addressed the situation in Lithuania, calling it the "first post-cold war crisis." On the morning of this appearance, Lithuania had declared its independence from the Soviet Union. Moynihan discussed the role of international law in resolving the situation.
Type: Media
NPC Members Receive $50 Discount off tickets to ICFJ Awards Dinner Tues. Nov. 10
Join 600 media leaders and overseas reporters at the International Center for Journalists’ annual Awards Dinner, D.C.’s premier international journalism event on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Jorge Ramos, anchor and reporter for Univision, will receive ICFJ’s Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism for three decades of covering issues vital to the Latino community. Lynsey Addario, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who has covered conflicts from Afghanistan to South Sudan, will receive an award for Excellence in International Reporting…
Type: News
This Week in National Press Club History
June 28, 1961: David Sarnoff, chairman of the board and president of RCA, discusses the future of space communications, and demonstrates his prowess with a telegraph key, a skill he learned as a telegrapher with the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. He taps out “Greetings from the National Press Club to all the people of the world … and anyone who may be tuned in from outer space.” June 29, 1964: National Press Club members vote 128 to 50 to readmit women journalists to the ballroom floor to cover luncheons. On May 11, they had been told they could sit down with the men,…
Type: News
Summer BBQ/Jazz Event a Success
National Press Club members and their guests enjoyed cool jazz, great food and good drinks Thursday night at the Reliable Source Summer BBQ and Jazz event. Attendees commented favorably about the food and the music, especially Louis Priebe, Chairman of the House Committee who with his wife was celebrating his 49 years of marriage. They said "the food was delicious and the jazz with the Greater U Street Collective Jazz band was fantastic". Seventy-five people enjoyed the buffet and another 25 came just to listen.
Type: News
National Press Club Comments On Death of Nineteen Year-old Cameraman in Syria
The following statement was issued today by John Hughes, President of the National Press Club: "We have today received very sad news out of Syria that Mohammed al-Asfar, an Al-Jazeera cameraman working in the Syrian province of Daraa was killed by shelling while covering the battle between government forces and rebels. Sadly, Mr. al-Asfar was 19 years old. He had worked for Al-Jazeera Arabic since early Spring 2015. This incident, along with the death of another Al-Jazeera cameraman in Syria within the year, underscores for all of us just how dangerous coverage of conflict is and the…
Type: News
Former Texas Governor to lay out economic plan at Luncheon July 2
Rick Perry, the former three-term governor of Texas and a 2016 presidential candidate, will lay out an economic plan at a National Press Club luncheon on Thursday, July 2. The former U.S. Air Force pilot, who left office in January, will discuss how to fight "the cycle of hopelessness and lost opportunity that so many Americans feel trapped in." The son of tenant farmers in Paint Creek, Texas, Perry is one of several governors and former governors in the large Republican presidential field. His state has the 12th largest economy in the world by GDP and since 2000 has created almost one-third…
Type: News
Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times win awards in National Press Club journalism contest
The Wall Street Journal won first-place awards for consumer journalism and humor writing in the 2015 National Press Club Journalism Contest and The Seattle Times won a breaking news award for its comprehensive coverage of a deadly mudslide. Allan Sloan of Fortune Magazine won the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis for his groundbreaking investigation of a financial ploy known as inversion that is costing the U.S. Treasury millions of dollars. This year’s winner of the Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award was a project done by three organizations: InsideClimate News, The Weather…
Type: News
Experts advocate apprentice programs, citing Swiss experience
Nancy Hoffman, education reform spokesperson, Swiss Ambassador Martin Dahinden and Deputy Assistant Labor Secretary Eric Seleznow described apprenticeships that youths can use in place of -- or at the same time as -- regular academic programs at a National Press Club Newsmaker June 25 "These are much better than complaining about their boredom in high school," Hoffman said. She told of a 15-year-old whose room was a mess and whose parents had trouble getting her out of bed to go to school. Then the teenager learned of an apprenticeship program that changed her life. "Young people learn to…
Type: News
Advocate for LGBT community seeks culture in which it can live
Sara Kate Ellis, president and CEO of the nation's LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) media advocacy group, GLAAD, said the organization seeks to create a culture in which that community can live. She spoke at a Press Club Newsmaker event June 22. Ellis discussed the pending U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, a same-sex marriage case regarding state recognition of legal out-of-state marriages. The high court could rule in one of three ways, Ellis said: It can legalize same-sex marriages in the entire country, it can require states that currently don’t recognize…
Type: News