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Club holds member-only networking event each month
Did you know that the National Press Club features an exclusive, member-only networking event every other month? Please join us for the next edition of Meet the Press Club at 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 10, in the Reliable Source's McClendon room. Space is limited, so please reserve your spot by sending an email to Sarah Driggs at [email protected]. Meet the Press Club is specifically designed as a forum for Club members to network and establish business contacts among fellow members. For more about your membership benefits, please contact is at [email protected].
Type: News
Volunteers needed to judge Atlanta Press Club contest
The Atlanta Press Club needs help judging its Awards of Excellence journalism contest. Volunteers are needed to judge entries in print, broadcast, photography, commentary and the top award -- the Atlanta Press Club Impact Award. If interested, please contact Atlanta Press Club Assistant Director Courtney Overcash at (404)577-7377 or [email protected]. The deadline to volunteer is Friday. Judging will take place from Feb. 11 to March 8, 2013, and will be accomplished online. The Atlanta Press Club, one of the largest and most active press clubs in the country, has revamped its awards…
Type: News
Did you know the Club hosts a monthly movie night? "J. Edgar" on tap for Wednesday
Club members and guests are invited to Dinner and a Movie night at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the McClendon Room at the Reliable Source. This month’s feature is “J. Edgar” starring Leonardo DiCaprio as J.Edgar Hoover in a biopic story of the life and career of Hoover while he was employed at the FBI. Members and their guests may choose from the regular menu or a selection of dinner specials while enjoying the movie. Please contact us at [email protected] or 202-662-7443 for more details or to reserve your table. For more information about your membership benefits please email [email protected].
Type: News
Ted Koppel: Networks must invest in serious journalism to save democracy
Technological changes, viewer tastes and demands for profit have undercut the quality of television news, but the pendulum should begin to swing back, legendary ABC News anchor Ted Koppel told host Marvin Kalb at “The Kalb Report” on Nov. 19. “When Americans finally realize how bad things are and what political straits our system is in, they will turn back to good journalism,” Koppel predicted at the National Press Club forum. Information is spread so quickly that the system will collapse if reliable sources don't provide accurate information, he said. Yet many reporters have little time to…
Type: News
Senator Speech
Type: Media
NPR producer to speak on role of visual media Wednesday at Photo Committee lunch
Keith W. Jenkins, supervising senior producer for multimedia at National Public Radio, will speak on the role of photography and visual media in storytelling in a digital age at noon Wednesday at a luncheon meeting of the Club’s Photography Committee. The committee will meet in the McClendon Room. All Club members and their guests are welcome. No reservations are required. At NPR, along with the day-to-day photography and photo-editing, Jenkins and his team are responsible for the visual web-based components of several highly acclaimed NPR series, including “Along The Grand Trunk Road:…
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Wife, lawyer to brief reporters Friday on case of USAID subcontractor Alan Gross imprisoned in Cuba
A lawyer representing Alan Gross, a U.S. Agency for International Development subcontractor imprisoned in Cuba, will brief reporters Friday at 10 a.m. on the latest developments in his case and the prospects for improved U.S.-Cuba relations. A Cuban court sentenced Gross three years ago to a 15-year term for "actions against the independence or territorial integrity of the state" as he sought to connect Cuba's Jewish community to the Internet. Since then, Gross has lost more than 100 pounds, and he and his family say he has been denied appropriate diagnostic care and treatment for a growth…
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Defense industry CEOS to discuss sequestration, national security at Dec. 3 Newsmaker
A panel of defense industry CEOs will discuss impact of budget cuts and sequestration on national security at a National Press Club Newsmaker at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 3 in the Bloomberg Room. Panelists are Wes Bush, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Northrop Grumman Corp., David P. Hess, president, Pratt & Whitney, Dawne S. Hickton, vice chair, president and chief executive officer, RTI International Metals Inc., and David Langstaff, president and chief executive officer, TASC.
Type: News
Fourth Estate dinner special offered to "Honor Flight" screening ticket holders
The Fourth Estate restaurant at the National Press Club is offering a dinner special for attendees of the screening of "Honor Flight" on Tuesday. To take advantage of the special, attendees should show their ticket or reservation confirmation to restaurant manager Olivia Haver. The a la carte menu is also available. The three-course menu featuring a Caesar Salad, choice of chicken breast or flat iron steak with sides and a warm apple and walnut bread pudding costs $25 per person special, not including tax, gratuity and drinks. The restaurant will open early, at 5 p.m., on Tuesday evening to…
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Experts to discuss campaign money avalanche in 2012 and how to follow it in future
Never in the history of political campaigning has money played as big a role as it did in the 2012 election. And more of the same seems in store for the future. A panel of experts will take a look back at fundraising in this year's campaigning and offer advice on how journalists can cover the avalanche of money in the future at a National Press Club event on Tuesday, Dec. 4. Sponsored by the Club's Journalism Institute and the Professional Development Committee, the session is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room. Space is limited. This event is free, but registration is…
Type: News