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World Affairs Council Honors NPC Member Clift
Club member Eleanor Clift received the international communicator award from the World Affairs Council of Washington on Thursday. Clift, contributing editor of Newsweek and a regular panelist on the syndicated talk show, “The McLaughlin Group,” was honored for her lifetime work in journalism and her volunteer work, including with the NPC.
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Top Student with Global Outlook Wins NPC Scholarship
The National Press Club Board of Governors congratulates Viviana Benjumea of Elmhurst, New York, the 2009 winner of the Club's Ellen Masin Persina Scholarship for Diversity in Journalism. "We are so pleased to award the National Press Club's diversity scholarship to a young woman who has already shown great talent and drive as an aspiring journalist," Club President Donna Leinwand said. "We see tremendous potential for great contributions to journalism." Benjumea, who hopes to become a foreign correspondent for a major newspaper or TV network, is awarded $5,000 a year for four years toward…
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MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Scarborough Bashes Rs and Ds at Book Event
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Scarborough, joined by show co-host Mika Bzezinski, told a packed ballroom at the National Press Club that conservatives need to "rebrand" the conservative movement. More than 300 NPC members and guests attended last night’s Book and Author event featuring Scarborough's new book, The Last Best Hope, Restoring Conservatism and America’s Promise. In its first week of publication, the book has risen to #7 on The New York Times Best Seller List. Scarborough criticized Republican leaders in Washington for getting the federal goverment into record deficits and for a "…
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Iranian-born Oscar Nominee Pushes Envelope for Women in Iran
Oscar-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo says protests in Iran are unprecedented in the country's post-revolutionary history and are linked to the decades-long repression of women’s rights by a fundamentalist Islamic regime. “I want to cry, and at the same time I am happy -- happy that the Iranian people have at last after 10 years decided to take their destiny in their own hands and now are pouring on the streets -- happy because 40 percent of them are Iranian women -- happy because they are calling this movement a ‘women's movement’ in Iran," Aghdashloo said Wednesday at a National Press…
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Consumer Electronics Chief Suggests Innovations
Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, announced a campaign to ensure innovative technology has priority in future government policies. He discussed global free trade, national debt and how tech can lead the U.S. out of recession at Newsmaker June 16. Shapiro also declared the HDTV transition this week an unmitigated success "by any measure." He has been working on High Definition TV as a US standard for almost 20 years, leading electronics industry efforts to convert American households. The Innovation Movement has 14,000 high tech "members" advocating…
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Lugar Rates Obama's Foreign Policy Approach an "A," Says Tone Isn't Panacea
President Obama merits an “A” so far in his approach to American foreign policy, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., told the International Correspondents Committee Monday. But he cautioned that tone alone doesn’t solve deep and complex world problems. Lugar, the senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee, briefed the committee for an hour. In response to a question about how he’d rate Obama’s performance in the international arena, Lugar said he’d give the new president a top grade. He said the Obama administration’s policies are not much different from the Bush administration’s, but his…
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Iran's Pahlavi Predicts Ballot Box Will Defeat Supreme Leader
Reza Pahlavi, son of the former shan of Iran, told a June 22 Newsmaker that the continuing anti-government demonstrations in his home country mark the "birth of a movement" that is not Islamic or anti-Islamic, capitalistic or socialistic, or part of any ideology. Rather, he said, they are is about "the sanctity, even more, the sovereignty of the ballot box." The former crown prince of Iran also said journalists should not underestimate the role they can play in the outcome of the situation. "International media are already the information artery connecting different parts of the freedom…
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Board Honors Aldrich, Miller for Service to "Record"
The Board of Governors honored Lorna Aldrich and Bill Miller on Monday night for their "extraordinary and dedicated services" to the National Press Club in writing, editing and laying out the Club's newsletter, the Record. President Donna Leinwand described the two editors as "absolute stalwarts who were always cheerful and dedicated" as she introduced a resolution that the Board unanimously adopted at its monthly meeting. The Board gave a champagne toast to Aldrich and Miller, who expressed their thanks for the support and assistance they had received from NPC presidents and Club members…
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Club Members Elected to Leadership Posts for Regional Reporters
The Regional Reporters Association has re-elected a slate of officers and board members, many of them National Press Club members. NPC member Thomas Burr of the Salt Lake Tribune was re-elected president. Other Club members elected RRA officers are Vice President Joe Morton of the Omaha World Herald and Secretary Lisa Mascaro of the Las Vegas Sun. Among the at-large directors elected were Club members Alex Daniels of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette;Todd Gillman of the Dallas Morning News; Michael Coleman of the Albuquerque Journal; Paul Merrion of Crain’s Chicago Business; Keith Chu of Western…
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Islamic Conference Head Wants to Help US-Muslim Relations
The Organization of the Islamic Conference wants to help "open channels" between the United States and the Muslim word, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told a June 23 Newsmaker. The Egyptian-born Turkish academic also said he hopes President Obama will follow President Bush's move in appointing a prominent Muslim as the U.S. representative in this area. The OIC is the second largest intergovernmental organization -- after the UN -- with 57 member countries and five observer in four continents. Established in Morocco in l969, its headquarters are in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Major…
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