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Video Storytelling Classes July 30-31; $60 for Members or $100 for Both
A two-part series for reporters or Web producers will focus on adding a video component to stories. The classes are July 30 and 31. Costs vary and must be paid in advance. Cameras will be provided; see details below. The sessions will offer practical tips for producing video, whether you're using a Flip camera, an iPhone or more sophisticated video equipment. The primary instructor is media trainer/coach Mary Coffman, associate professor of broadcast and video storytelling at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She will evaluate different kinds of video storytelling,…
Type: News
Renovations Begin July 30 for Reliable Source, 13th Floor Restrooms
Renovations of the Reliable Source kitchen and the bathrooms on the 13th floor will begin in both areas after the close of business on Friday, July 30, and are scheduled to be completed by Labor Day. What will change in the Reliable Source? The Reliable Source kitchen project will involve the demolition and rebuilding of the cooking and dishwashing space. It will modernize the kitchen, which has not been renovated since 1984, and will allow the addition of pizza and panini, for example, to the menu. The work will include new flooring in the cafeteria area. While most of the change is behind…
Type: News
Panel to Discuss Pentagon Policy for Coverage of Detainee Trials at Gitmo
A panel discussion, "Banned at Guantanamo," on the Pentagon's banning and subsequent reinstatement of four reporters from covering future military trials of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 20, in the conference rooms. In May, the U.S. Defense Department barred four reporters from covering future military trials of suspected terrorists at the military's Guantanamo Bay detention facility for including the already publicly disclosed name of a witness in news stories over Pentagon objections. The Pentagon lifted the suspensions early this month after…
Type: News
Part Two With General Michael Hayden On Journalists and Intelligence Secrets
This edition of Update-1 features part 2 of a two-episode podcast with General Michael Hayden. Press Club Board member Molly McCluskey talks with the former NSA and CIA director about how journalists can effectively work with the intelligence community and the future of intelligence in the United States. General Hayden is the author of Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.
Type: Media
Author Says Vietnam Still Influences Media Coverage of War
Although the U.S. military has largely worked through the lessons of the Vietnam war, the "ghosts of Vietnam" still hang over the media and influence war reporting, USA Today senior military reporter Jim Michaels said July 12 Michaels, author of "A Chance in Hell; The Men Who Triumphed Over Iraq's Deadliest City and Turned the Tide of War," described a time lag of about six months between some important developments in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and their emergence and recognition in the media. He noted that over 100 years ago the story of Custer at the Little Big Horn got to the…
Type: News
State Dept. Spokesman Talks Shop with Young Members
State Department Spokesman P.J. Crowley met with Young Members July 13 for a discussion on geopolitics and the inner-workings of the Obama administration’s foreign policy shop. Crowley walked YMs through an average day at the State Department, describing how the public affairs office develops press guidance and discusses the issues of the day, as well as how he prepares to meet the press. He then fielded YMs’ questions on the department's efforts to promote U.S. foreign policy abroad as well as at home, where Crowley said he is working to increase the agency’s responsiveness to regional news…
Type: News
White Supremacist Documentary and Panel, 6:30 pm July 14
"Revealing Hate" will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 14, in the Holeman Lounge. A panel discussion with Mariah Wilson, the documentary’s producer/director, and Gary Weaver, professor at American University, follows the screening. Over four years, Wilson shot interviews with people whose lives have been affected by the white supremacist movement to produce the documentary. Weaver is a fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research and is on the board of the Center for Asian Organized Crime. "Revealing Hate" continuous the 2010 NPC summer documentary series. It is open to…
Type: News
State Dept. Spokesman Meets with Young Members, 6:30 pm July 13; RSVP Required
State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley will join the Club’s Young Members Committee for cocktails and conversation at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 13. The event is limited to young members of the Club. As the assistant secretary of public affairs, Crowley oversees the State Department’s press and public relations strategy and conducts the daily briefing. During the Clinton administration, Crowley was on the staff of the National Security Council. Space is limited. To reserve, e-mail name and member number to Ben Dooley at [email protected].
Type: News
Tony Horton Discusses Obesity, Leads Exercise Class 1 pm July 16
Tony Horton, fitness trainer and creator of the P90X Extreme Home Fitness system, will speak at a "boot camp" luncheon at 1 p.m. Friday, July 16. He will discuss his call for the Department of Defense to modify its physical training doctrine to include a "functional fitness" approach, the impact of obesity within the U.S. military, and the trend of potential military recruits considered too fat to fight. As part of the program, the audience will be invited to join in a P90X demonstration workout. A sit-down luncheon will not be served. Boxed take-home llunches and bottled water will be…
Type: News
This Week in National Press Club History
July 14, 2006: XM Satellite Radio begins broadcasting National Press Club luncheons. July 17, 2003: Former President Gerald R. Ford makes his 15th and last appearance at the Club, a record number of appearances. July 17, 2009: Walter Cronkite, winner of the Club’s first Fourth Estate Award, dies at the age of 92. This Week in National Press Club History is brought to you by the History and Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through displays, panel discussions, lectures and the oral history project. For more information on History and Heritage Committee-…
Type: News