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Dig deep with Google, Reputation.com at NPC Institute Boot Camp, July 14
Experts from Google and Reputation.com will show you how to did deep on the Internet to find information and will outline the perils of our interconnected, Internet world July 14 at the National Press Club Journalism Institute's Boot Camp. The Institute's Boot Camp, sponsored by the Professional Development Committee, is an intense, one-day immersion in all one need's to know about finding your next job or do the one you have better. Improve your search, enhance your networking skills and navigate the increasingly complex world of social media. You can also polish your resume and pick up tips…
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Interventions can halt spread of violence, CeaseFire director says
Societal violence behaves like a contagious disease, but can be prevented and curbed with intervention, panelists from CeaseFire and the American Islamic Congress said at at a National Press Club Newsmaker June 28. CeaseFire executive director Dr. Gary Slutkin, a former World Health Organization epidemiologist and a professor at University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, said violence, whether gang-related, tribal or anti-government, spreads as a neurological and emotional disease. Prevention or intervention involves detection, creating conflict interrupters and reasons to alter…
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National Press Club offers condolences on death of NPC scholarship winner Armando Montano, 22
The National Press Club is saddened to learn of the untimely death of Armando Montano, the recipient of the club's Ellen Masin Persina scholarship in 2008. He was 22. ``We remember Armando as a vibrant young man with so much promise,'' said National Press Club President Theresa Werner. ``We would like to extend our sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.'' Armando used his scholarship to study at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. While on an internship in Washington last summer, Armando visited the Club regularly and participated in the Club's annual 5K run, where he…
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Panelists See Need for New Products, Models in Journalism
DES MOINES, Iowa – New thinking in how to attract advertisers will be essential to regenerating the income necessary to keep quality journalism alive, leading news executives said at a National Press Club forum at Drake University Wednesday. “The business model is clearly broken,” said Laura Hollingsworth, publisher of the Des Moines Register, part of the Gannett Co. that announced this week another 10 percent cut in personnel. Supporting quality reporting and investigative projects is the essential piece of what the company is doing, she said, but it is only one piece. The vision for the…
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In a Changing Market, News Organizations Need Freedom to Innovate, Journalists Tell NPC Forum
MILWAUKEE – The editor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says he is able to succeed because the paper's local ownership gives him the ability to make changes quickly and to concentrate on what he thinks will work. Marty Kaiser, the paper’s editor in chief, said he could make the decisions to keep an emphasis on investigative reporting and to make quick changes to take advantage of the Internet because he did not have to wait for approval from a corporate headquarters. “It gives us great freedom in our newsroom to do the kinds of things that we want to do and also to…
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DNC, RNC Chairmen Review Presidential Campaign at Luncheon
The Democratic and Republican national committee chairman paid homage to their candidates, voters, and the political process, and fielded pointed questions from the audience today at a sold-out National Press Club luncheon. We accepted this invitation long before we knew how the election would turn out, and that was a bit of a risk, joked DNC Chairman Howard Dean who shared the stage today with RNC Chairman Robert M. (Mike) Duncan. My heart goes out to Mike, because I know he is in a tough spot. Nonetheless, a proud and admittedly sleep-deprived Dean announced that America chose hope over…
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Election Provided "Wake-up Call" for Traditional Media, Panel Says
SALT LAKE CITY - The way the presidential election was covered - and the public's reaction to it - was a wake-up call to traditional media that it must maintain its credibility if it is going to stayalive, leading journalists here told a National Press Club forum Thursday. "On Tuesday night, for the first time in the history of the craft, there were so many voices that it was very difficult to separate the voice of what we would call traditional media and the voice of all the others," said Con Psarras, news director at KSL-TV, the Salt Lake City NBC affiliate. "That confuses people." As the…
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Print Journalists Still Print -- and Shoot Video, and Take Photos, and Provide Live Commentary, Panel Says
"Newspapering" is no longer the strict job definition of USA Today correspondent Donna Leinwand, she told students at six universities in five Western states Monday. As she covered the aftermath of Hurricane Ike in Houston and Galveston, Leinwand traveled with a videographer through the devastated area. “I’m a print journalist, the type with a notepad,” she said, waving her notepad at the TV cameras in the Club's broadcast studio that was Webcasting the forum. “But we had a camera mounted to the front of the car, and I had a microphone as the photographer was driving down to Galveston,” she…
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Political Reporters Defend Election Coverage from Charges of Bias
CLEVELAND – Barack Obama may have gotten more favorable media coverage during the presidential campaign, but it was not because news reporters are biased, leading Cleveland political reporters told an NPC forum Wednesday. Tom Beres, senior political reporter for WKYC-TV3, said Obama ran such a different and such an effective campaign that describing it objectively made it sound like the reporter was biased toward the Democratic candidate. “It was hard to do a story that someone watching it wouldn’t say that the reporter must be leaning pretty heavily toward Obama,” Beres said. “Very often,…
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National Press Club Deplores Killing of Journalists
WASHINGTON – National Press Club President Sylvia Smith issued a statement on Friday on the news that three journalists have died violent deaths in recent days. “The National Press Club deplores the slaying of journalists killed in the pursuit of a story,” she said. "We must stand firmly against violence that would seek to inhibit a free press.” Armando Rodriguez, a crime reporter for the Mexican newspaper El Diario de Juarez, was shot Nov. 11 as he prepared to take his daughter to school. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists said the killing was "part of the growing wave of…
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