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Tips To Be Successful As A Freelance Journalist
If you're a freelance journalist or thinking about becoming a freelancer, this edition of Update-1 is for you. Broadcast Committee member Stephanie Gailhard looks into the hidden job market for freelancers and how they can monetize social media. She first interviews Industry Dive editor Randy Lilleston about ways for freelancers to find opportunities, and then talks to freelance health reporter Joya Patel about creating a strategy for using social media. Lilleston and Patel were involved in panel discussions recently as part of the Press Club's latest installment of its Freelance Workshop…
Type: Media
Registration Open for 3-Session Video Storytelling Seminar, June 24-26
A three-part series June 24-26 for reporters or Web producers will focus on adding a video component to stories. Costs vary and must be paid in advance; 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, including ways to tell stories without narration,…
Type: News
Volunteers for July 17 5K Eat Free
Lend a hand at the National Press Club 5K Run/Walk on Saturday, July 17, and earn a free spot in the post-race continental breakfast and receive a race t-shirt. Volunteers are needed for the registration table, water station and out on the course. Email Michelle Licth at [email protected] , if you would like to volunteer.
Type: News
World Cup on View at Reliable Source June 11; S. African Beer
Televisions in the Reliable Source will be tuned to the World Cup soccer championship beginning Friday, June 11, during regular Club hours. The first games are South Africa vs. Mexico at 9:30 a.m. and Uruguay vs. France at 2 p.m. In a nod to the host country, a selection of South African beer will be served. A full schedule for the entire month is available at the bar and in designated areas throughout the Club.
Type: News
Tickets Available for Fourth Estate Dinner Honoring Schieffer; $125 for Members
Oct. 15 will be one of the Club's most exciting nights of the year, as it honors Bob Schieffer of CBS News with the Club's highest honor, the Fourth Estate Award. Member ticket prices are $125, and every member can buy one guest ticket at the member price. Non-member tickets are $175 each. Reserve at [email protected] or (202) 662-7501. The dinner will be a Texas-themed party honoring the Texas-born Schieffer, a longtime Club member and the host of "Face the Nation." The annual Fourth Estate Award Dinner honors a distinguished journalist for career achievement. Previous winners include…
Type: News
AID Administrator Calls Haiti Earthquake Source of Learning, Guide to Reform
Rajiv Shah, administrator of the Agency for International Development, cited the earthquake in Haiti as a source of learning and a guide to shaping reform in the agency during a June 18 Luncheon. The first example from Haiti that he listed was purchasing food locally so it was available immediately. He also said that vaccinating more than a million people prevented a major outbreak of disease. Because research has shown that chlorine tablets distributed with water were more likely to be used, truck drivers delivering water also distributed tablets, he said. As a result, he said, more Haitians…
Type: News
Andrew Young: 'Trying to Make Sense of the World'
“Mutual frustration led us to this book,” said Andrew Young. “I am trying to make sense of the world I live in.” The former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and mayor of Atlanta and his godson, Kabir Sehgal, were at the Club on June 16 to talk about and sign their new book, “Walk in My Shoes: Conversations Between a Civil Rights Legend and His Godson on the Journey Ahead.” Young and Sehgal have been talking regularly for over 20 years. Young said that his own children would not listen to him, but Sehgal would. Young then realized Sehgal's father knew as much as he did, but Sehgal would not…
Type: News
Please Welcome 34 New Members
Please Welcome 34 New Members The Board of Governors approved 34 member applications June 14: ActiveFrank Bass - Bloomberg News enterprise reporter; Sarah Cohen - Duke University, Knight Professor of Journalism & Public Policy; Jill Dougherty – CNN foreign affairs editor; Joyce Frieden - MedPage Today news editor; Nadar Gohar - Cairo News Co. chief editor Active ReinstateDee Ann Divis - Washington Examiner assistant managing editor Active Non-ResidentAnanda Mitra - Wake Forest University professor of communication; Heyecan N. Veziroglu – freelance journalist Active Under 35Sumanth K.…
Type: News
Latvia 'On Way Back' to Financial Recovery, Official Says
Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis of Latvia told a June 16 Newsmaker that his country is "well on its way back" to financial stability thanks to structural changes, internal devaluation and other economic reforms it has made. The Baltic countries were all among the hardest hit by the financial crisis. In Latvia, the number of unemployed has more than tripled since the crisis, giving it the highest rate of unemployment growth in the European Union. Dombrovskis, a former finance minister, said the measures taken by his country are "easy for the government to do, but they are not easy on…
Type: News
President Bjerga on Cover of Concordia College Alumni Magazine
NPC President Alan Bjerga is profiled in a cover story in the summer edition of Concordia Magazine, the alumni publication of Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. Bjerga graduated from Concordia, a private Lutheran college with an enrollment of about 3,000 studens, with degrees in history and English literature in 1995. The multi-page story takes readers through a day with Bjerga and discusses aspects of his educational experience and how it prepared him for the life of a reporter for Bloomberg News and NPC president. The full story can be found here: http://www.cord.edu/magazine/summer10/…
Type: News