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Space opens up; still time to join election night party at Club
Want to spend election night in a nonpartisan atmosphere? The National Press Club will host a gala election night party, and there's still time to join us! Space has opened up and tickets are available. The event will be open to Club members in the Truman Lounge and open to the public in the First Amendment Lounge. Admission is $10 for Club members and $15 for nonmembers. Hors d'oeuvres will be served. Guests are welcome to have dinner in the Club's Fourth Estate Restaurant before or during the election coverage. Nonmembers can purchase drinks at a cash bar in the First Amendment Lounge.…
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Biographers to be among authors appearing at Book Fair Nov. 13
If you're a fan of biographies, you're in for a treat at the National Press Club's 35th annual Book Fair & Authors' Night on Tuesday Nov. 13, from 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. You'll have a chance to meet the likes of Clint Hill, author of “Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir,” and Bob Spitz, author of “Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child.” Also appearing will be Stephen Shepard, editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek for more than 20 years, with his new book, “Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path from Print to Digital,” as well as Bay Buchanan, author of “Bay and Her Boys: Unexpected…
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Beasley, Clift to highlight history of women in Washington journalism Nov. 19
Join author Maurine Beasley and Newsweek columnist Eleanor Clift, both National Press Club members, over lunch Nov. 19 to discuss Beasley’s newest book, “Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice and Persistence,” at 12 noon in the Winner’s Room. Beasley’s book chronicles the resistance women journalists found from the 1830s to the present in cracking the Washington media establishment and recounts the determination and resourcefulness of these pioneers. Even today with the upheaval in the news business, the stakes and costs for women continue to be particularly high as they wrestle…
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Tweeting from space: Get social media tips from NASA at ‘Get-It-Online’ lunch Nov. 20
Jason Townsend, deputy social media manager for NASA, will present case studies of the agency’s pioneering efforts in use of social media at another of the Club’s members-only “Get It Online” luncheon discussions at 12 noon on Tuesday, Nov. 20, in the McClendon Room. Townsend will draw from recent news at NASDA to provide examples of how communicators and journalists can work with multiple platforms to present information tailored to platforms and audiences. Well-known for achieving major “firsts” such as landing the first man on the moon, NASA has attained similar milestones in capitalizing…
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Journalist and conservative activist Joseph F. Borda III dies
Joseph Francis Borda III, a retired former journalist and conservative political activist who had been a National Press Club member for 10 years, died September 17 at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Frederick, Md., after a brief illness. Borda, 69, lived in Brunswick, Md. Borda, who joined the Club in 2002, was senior editor for the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation from 2003 until 2009. He retired a few months after the death of the organization's founder, conservative strategist Paul M. Weyrich, who had hired him. In that job Borda produced Weyrich's weekly radio broadcast, "…
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Penn State to implement 119 reforms after Sandusky scandal, its president pledges
Speaking at a National Press Club luncheon Nov. 2, a day after his predecessor was charged with being part of a "conspiracy of silence" in the Jerry Sandusky child abuse case, Pennsylvania State University President Rodney Erickson vowed to implement 119 reform recommendations by the end of next year to insure that nothing like that scandal can happen again. Erickson, who will retire in June 2014 after 37 years at Penn State, said the university has already adopted more than a third of the 119 reforms recommended in July by former FBI director Louis Freeh after his independent university-…
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Navy's top officer to discuss Navy's status Friday, Nov. 16
President Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney debated the status of the U.S. Navy. Get the inside scoop from the nation’s top Navy officer: Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jonathan Greenert. He will address the state of the U.S. Navy and its role in expanding U.S. defense in the Asia-Pacific region at a Club Luncheon Friday, Nov. 16. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m., with remarks beginning at 1 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session ending at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $19 for Press Club members, $30 for guests of members, and $37 for general admission. To reserve tickets…
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Panel to assess election polls Thursday, Nov. 8
What did the polls get right ahead of the election, and where did they go wrong? Two days after the election, a panel of pollsters will sit down at the Club’s Journalism Institute and assess polling in the presidential race. Pollster.com’s Mark Blumenthal, George Washington University’s John Sides, Republican pollster Kelly Anne Conway and Democratic pollster Margie Omero will offer their insights on surveys in the White House contest and dig into the election results. This event is RSVP only. Go here to register.
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Club welcomes October's new members
The Club welcomed new members in October: Journalists - Robert Wheelock ( Al Jazeera English), Ashley Alderman (Fox News), Ferdous Al-Faruque (FDA News), Clay Webster (Platts), Tim Devaney (Washington Times), Derrick Perkins(Alexandria Times), Jessica Estepa (E&E Publishing), Deborah Wilson (University of Lincoln, UK), Susan Dickenson (Home Accents Today)and Daniele Moro (TV News Channel 5, Italy). Communicators - Kenneth Cummins (Capitol Group), Gregorio Laso (Embassy of Spain), Christopher Thorne (Beer Institute), Nels Ackerson (Ackerson, Kauffman, Fex Law Firm), John Price (Ambassador…
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Book Fair to showcase novelists and mystery writers Tuesday, Nov. 13
Mystery buffs and novel readers will find plenty of new releases at the NPC’s 35th annual Book Fair and Authors’ Night Tuesday Nov. 13, from 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. NPC member Tom Young, author of “The Renegades,” will join former AP writing coach Bruce DeSilva, with his second novel, “Cliff Walk,” which features an investigative reporter at a dying Rhode Island paper. “A Killing in the Hills,” a debut novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller, is included in the mystery section. Vaddey Ratner, author of the highly successful “In the Shadow of the Banyan,” will be among the…
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