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Young Reviewer: 'Yum!' for Kids' Restaurant Week at Fourth Estate
Taylor Keane, daughter of NPC Membership Secretary Angela Greiling Keane, was the first kid to dine at the Fourth Estate this week for Kids' Restaurant Week, which goes through June 26. As the daughter of a reporter, Taylor was happy to answer a few questions about her experience. Q: Can you tell us what is yummy in your dinner today?A: Sweet potato fries and the chocolate mousse. All of it. Q: What do you think makes it so yummy?A: Because the people that made it practiced hard and worked hard. Q: What would you like the Press Club chef to put on the kids' menu nextyear?A: I would put on…
Type: News
NPC Praises Pardon of Sri Lankan Journalist
The National Press Club praised the pardoning of Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam, who had been convicted under the country's anti-terrorism laws for articles he had written. "We are grateful that J.S. Tissainayagam has been pardoned,' NPC President Alan Bjerga said. "No journalists should be imprisoned for doing their jobs. I hope this pardon is an example for countries around the world that continue to hold reporters in violation of basic journalistic freedoms." Press-freedom advocates have said Tissainayagam's conviction last year and sentence to 20 years of hard labor was…
Type: News
Feldman Fellowship Goes to Community-Newspaper Advocate
Bethany Chambers of Greentown, Ohio, is this year's winner of the $5,000 Feldman Fellowship, which she will use toward graduate studies at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in the fall. The 25-year-old is a graduate of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. She coordinated the school newspaper's coverage when five basketball players were shot on campus, and the special edition she put out as managing editor won a Pennsylvania Newspaper Association award. As a professional journalist, Chambers' reporting in Daytona Beach, Fla., for the Hometown News weekly led to a criminal…
Type: News
Johns Hopkins CEO: Surge of Medicaid Patients Offers Problems, Rewards
The expansion of Medicaid, which will bring health coverage to 16 million disadvantaged Americans by 2019, “could be the most important and problematic” aspect of the new health insurance law, Dr. Edward Miller, dean the medical faculty at Johns Hopkins University medical school and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, warned at a Club luncheon June 21. Yet, he said, the experience at Johns Hopkins shows that the surge in Medicaid patients – a majority of the 32 million Americans overall who will gain coverage -- could be “the most rewarding aspect of the entire law.” Miller, leader of the giant…
Type: News
YM Committee Meets at 7 pm June 22
The Young Members Committee will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 22, in the McClendon Room. On the agenda: Discussing up-coming events, including Cocktails with Champions and a speed networking event in August.
Type: News
Newly Found Scopes Trial Photos Shown at Photo Committee Meeting, Noon, June 30
Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette will show newly discovered photos from the famous 1925 Scopes trial at the Photography Committee luncheon meeting at noon on Wednesday, June 30, in the McClendon Room. LaFollette, a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, will describe how two Washington journalists took their cameras to Tennessee to cover the anti-evolution trial of John Scopes. Eighty years later, their unpublished photos were rediscovered at the Smithsonian. LaFollette will describe the images, the photographers and some other recent acquisitions related to the "trial of the…
Type: News
Run with ABC's Karl and Klein for Door Prizes at July 17 5K
Register for the NPC 5K and your chance to win a $100 dinner for two at D.C.'s The Capitol Grille restaurant. That's just one of many "Beat the Deadline" door prizes to be handed out at the awards ceremony after the July 17 race. Run or walk in the 5K, and you can join top national media personalities, including ABC News' Jonathan Karl, senior congressional correspondent, and ABC's Rick Klein, senior Washington editor of World News with Diane Sawyer. They join NBC correspondent Luke Russert in the race by journalists, for journalists and their news sources. Register now as an individual…
Type: News
This Week in National Press Club History
June 20, 1991: Boris Yeltsin, newly elected president of the Russian Republic, speaks at a sold-out luncheon and says 40 percent of his people live under the official poverty line. June 22, 2005: Actress Ashley Judd addresses a Club luncheon in her role as global ambassador for youth AIDS. June 25, 1999: CBS anchor Dan Rather, at a luncheon, advises young journalists to learn how to write. June 26, 1992: Sir Edmund Hillary, the first Euopean to climb Mount Everest, assesses the environmental state of the planet at a luncheon. This Week in National Press Club History is brought to you by…
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Watch World Cup in 3D, Sip South African Wines in the Reliable Source
South African wines have been added to the Reliable Source wine list: Herding Cats Cabernet Sauvignon/Shiraz and Fleur du Cap Pinotage. Both are $5.75 per glass or $20 per bottle. Through Club member Marc Raimondi and Harris Corp., a 3D screen and glasses are available in the Truman Lounge to watch the World Cup soccer games that are broadcast in 3D. World Cup games scheduled to be shown in 3D on the days the Reliable Source is open: June 21 - Spain vs. Honduras June 22 - Nigeria vs. South Korea June 23 - Ghana vs. Germany June 24 - Slovakia vs. Italy June 25 - Portugal vs. Brazil…
Type: News
Will Brexit Be a Drag on Aerospace?
Following the United Kingdom’s referendum result in favor of leaving the European Union, NPC Broadcast Committee member Adam Konowe speaks with aerospace analyst Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group about Brexit’s potential impact on one of the country’s most important industries. The interview, recorded in the press center during the biennial Farnborough International Airshow, covers Brexit in the context of commercial and military aviation, other news from the show, and insight into the evolution of aerospace journalism.
Type: Media