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Interview Like Bob Edwards, 6:30 pm Sept. 29; Free for Members
Legendary radio journalist and NPC member Bob Edwards will discuss how to elicit interview gems from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29. Edwards has interviewed tens of thousands of people in his more than 40 years on-air -- politicians to celebrities and everyone in between. Just how does he get them to open up? Currently the host of Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's The Bob Edwards Show, Edwards will offer tips on improving interviews no matter what the medium. Edwards will discuss how to prepare for big interviews and how to make your subjects comfortable and forthcoming as well as play some…
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Eight places remain for the third annual NPC fall wine trip Saturday, Oct. 3.
Sample award-winning wines at three vineyards in Loudoun County, Va. Bring a picnic lunch to eat at one of the vineyards and $20 cash for tastings and driver tip (if you would like). The trip is $28 per person and is open to Club members and one guest each. This trip is non-refundable from the moment you email an RSVP. Your payment will more than likely not be collected immediately. Meet the chartered bus outside the National Press Club building at the F Street entrance at 9:30 a.m. (not the main entrance on 14th Street.) Space is limited to 24 people. RSVP to the Events Committee's Christine…
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Ocean Threats Seen in Overfishing, Pollution, Climate Change
The day after two University of Rhode Island scientists announced that climate change will harm jumbo squid, a panel of top U.S. marine scientists discussed the crisis that verfishing, pollution, and climate change is causing to the oceans that feed the world. At a Dec. 16 Newsmaker, Michael Hirshfield, chief scientist of North America Oceana, said: “We’ve been borrowing against the future for far too long, and the oceans can’t lend us any more. We must act responsibly and live within our means.” Just as the economic bubble depended on lax oversight and wishful thinking, the United States…
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Applewhite Donates Pulitzer-winning Clinton Photo
AP senior photographer J. Scott Applewhite presented one of his two Pulitzer Prize-winning photos to the Club on Dec. 17 at an NPC Photography Committee meeting. The photo, which Applewhite described as from “the cave-painting stage of digital photography,” shows President Clinton walking in the Rose Garden on Dec. 11, 1998, to make a short statement on his impeachment inquiry. Applewhite’s gift is the fourth Pulitzer Prize-winning photo presented to the Club, all arranged by member Marshall Cohen. Applewhite’s photo was the first digital image to win a Pulitzer Prize. Applewhite's primary…
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SPJ's Code of Ethics Adapts to the Digital Age
The Society of Professional Journalists, the nation’s most broad-based journalism organization, is dedicated to stimulating high standards of ethical behavior by journalists. Its Code of Ethics has stood for years as a benchmark for newsrooms. Now, that Code is under revision to recognize the changes in news gathering brought on by the digital age. The revision process is under the leadership of Kevin Smith, chairman of the SPJ Ethics Committee. In this edition of Update-1 Smith is interviewed by Broadcast Committee member Bill McCloskey, who is also on the national board of SPJ. In the…
Type: Media
Episcopal Leader Urges Focus on Issues of Hunger, Disease, Poverty
“Help us tell the world that fear is not the answer,” the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori told a room filled with the faithful and skeptical who came to hear her speak at a Club luncheon Tuesday. Jefferts Schori is the 26th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, and the first woman to lead a national church in the 520-year history of Anglicanism/ “When one part of this nation or world suffers, we all do,” she said. “We no longer live in a hermetically sealed nation or economic system — if we ever did. Protectionist and isolationist policies are not going to heal us. We are all going to…
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Nobelist Krugman Favors Massive Stimulus, Forecasts Higher Joblessness
Paul Krugman, 2008 economics Nobel laureate, Princeton professor and New York Times columnist, intertwined economic and history lessons with prediction and analysis at a Dec. 18 Club Luncheon. He said the Federal Reserve’s tools to contain the current economic crisis had reached their limit without stemming the economy’s downward slide and that massive federal spending was the remaining policy tool to check that slide. He foresaw unemployment rates in the 9 to 10 percent range by the end of this year because spending projects won’t start immediately. The economist noted that the Fed’s…
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Market Storm Fails to Shake Faith in 401(k) Plans, Survey Says
A collapsing stock market has not shaken investor confidence in their retirement plans, according to a survey released at a Newsmaker on Friday, Dec. 19. The Investment Company Institute analyzed data from more than 22 million 401(k) retirement savings accounts sponsored by its members and other large financial administrators. The study found that 3 percent of investors stopped contributing to their plans in 2008 and that 3.7 percent took some kind of withdrawal. “In sum, 401(k) investors are not racing for the exits,” saidPaul Schott Stevens, president and CEO of the institute, which is the…
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Interview Like Bob Edwards, 6:30 pm Sept. 29; Free for Members
Legendary radio journalist and NPC member Bob Edwards will discuss how to elicit interview gems from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29. Edwards has interviewed tens of thousands of people in his more than 40 years on-air -- politicians to celebrities and everyone in between. Just how does he get them to open up? Currently the host of Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's The Bob Edwards Show, Edwards will offer tips on improving interviews no matter what the medium. Edwards will discuss how to prepare for big interviews and how to make your subjects comfortable and forthcoming as well as play some…
Type: News
NPC applauds Senate bill to strengthen FOIA
The National Press Club lauded on Wednesday a bill soon to be introduced in the Senate that aims to speed up the processing of public requests for documents under the Freedom of Information Act. Two senators who have long championed press freedom and open government legislation, Democrat Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont and Republican John Cornyn of Texas, unveiled the Faster FOIA Act. The measure would set up an advisory commission that would make recommendations to Congress on ways to expedite the process of obtaining information from U.S. agencies. "Freedom of information isn't free if it costs…
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