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Pub Quiz 7 pm Sept. 9
Pub Quiz is at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, in the Truman Lounge. As Congress returns to session and those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer come to a close, what better way to keep your spirits up that with an evening of merriment, trivia, food, drinks and prizes? Join fellow Club members for the team trivia evening that features prizes, including a $50 gift certificate to the Fourth Estate Restaurant and a bottle of Jack Daniel’s. Build a team of up to four (at least one NPC member per team). Players without a team can be matched with a team. -- Marc Wojno, [email protected]
Type: News
DCCC Chairman Predicts Dems Will Keep House Majority
Democrats will retain a majority in the House in the 2010 elections, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, predicted at an Aug. 27 Newsmaker press conference. He said Democrats will use a three-pronged strategy: a move-forward agenda, effective field operations and a reliance on voter anger at “extreme” GOP candidates. Van Hollen criticized House Republican Leader John Boehner’s promise to repeal the Wall Street reform bill. Van Hollen said that “would undermine confidence and move the nation backward.” In addition, he attacked Republicans for…
Type: News
Obama's Top Economic Adviser at Sept. 1 Luncheon
Christina Romer, chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisers, will discuss the economy at a National Press Club luncheon on Wednesday, Sept. 1. Romer will reflect on dealing with an economy on the brink of disaster when President Obama took office, the impact of the economic recovery efforts so far and what’s ahead. Romer will soon leave the White House to return to her academic career. The luncheon begins at 12:30 pm. Reserve at (202) 662-7501 or [email protected]. Cost of the luncheon is $17 for Club members, $28 for their guests and $35 for the public. To submit a question in…
Type: News
Win Big at Oct. 15 Silent Auction
Come to the Fourth Estate Award Dinner on Oct. 15 and bid on: A year of fabulous cupcakes A night in a fabulous hotel and A photo shoot with a fabulous photographer. Seriously! The National Press Club's annual Silent Auction will be held at the Fourth Estate Dinner this year. Among the items up for bid: A year-long membership in Georgetown Cupcake’s Cupcake of the Month Club. The winning bidder receives a dozen cupcakes each month for a year – pickup or delivery. A one-night stay and breakfast for two at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington. A photo shoot and consultation with Sky…
Type: News
Seminar: Integrating Social Media into Communications, 8:30 am Oct. 1
Integrating social media into a communications strategy will be the topic of a half-day seminar at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 1, in the First Amendment Lounge. The cost for seminar is $155 for National Press Club members and $185 for non-members. This event will feature two panels that explore the latest tools and techniques in digital and social public relations. The first will focus on how to use social media to expand the reach of an organization’s message and to engage stakeholders. The second panel will discuss how to be both proactive and reactive in monitoring and responding to…
Type: News
Journalist And Educator Frank Sesno Discusses The Importance Of Asking The Right Questions
Questions help all of us communicate and for journalists they are a way of getting the information needed to report the news. But how many of us know how to ask the right questions, whether on the job or in our daily lives? In this episode of Update-1, Bankrate.com Washington Bureau Chief and former National Press Club President Mark Hamrick (@Hamrickisms) interviews Emmy Award-winning journalist Frank Sesno about the value of questions. Sesno, the director of the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs, talks about his new book, "Ask More: The Power of Questions to…
Type: Media
Federal Judges Discuss Personal Threats, Security Concerns, 10 am Aug. 30
Federal judges will release new data on threats and attacks directed at federal administrative law judges and will discuss concerns by judges about the level of safety in federal courtrooms where Social Security and immigration cases are heard at a Newsmakers press conference at 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 30, in the Zenger Room. Randall Frye, president of the Association of Administrative Law Judges and a federal judge with the Social Security Administration based in Charlotte, N.C., and Dana Leigh Marks, president of the National Association of Immigration Judges and a federal immigration judge…
Type: News
National Press Club Board Selects Press-Freedom Honorees
The National Press Club Board of Governors voted on Aug. 23 to honor a University of Missouri journalism professor and an Iranian blogger with its 2010 John Aubuchon Freedom of the Press Award. The award, given each year to one domestic and one international recipient, honors people who have contributed to the cause of press freedom and open government. This year’s U.S. winner is Charles N. Davis, an associate professor at the Missouri School of Journalism who has done more than most to force light onto parts of national, state and local governments that many in power would like to keep…
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Club Welcomes 30 New Members
The National Press Club Board of Governors approved 30 new member applications at its meeting on Aug. 23. ActiveMatthew Algeo - freelance writer; Paul Jenks - CQ - Roll Call, co-editor, staff writer Active ReinstateMary Coffman - Medill News Service/Northwestern University, editor/associate professor Active Under 30Kristin Coyner - Congressional Quarterly, staff writer; Lakshmi Eassey - National Student Leadership Conference on Journalism & Mass Comm., program director; Valerie Insinna - Tokyo Chunichi Shimbun, staff reporter; Jacquelyn Kasuya - Mainichi Shimbun, reporter/researcher;…
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Club's Traditional Summer Financial "Curse" Subsides
The "summer curse" of unprofitable months at the National Press Club may be nearing an end. Against a historical backdrop of triple-digit losses in July, the start of the traditionally slow summer period, the Club this year had a loss of only $34,000, compared to a deficit of $124,000 for the same month last year, Treasurer Keith Hill reported to the Board of Governors at its monthly meeting on Aug. 23. The turnaround came by increasing revenues by about $37,000, to $880,000, and reducing costs by $50,000. The results meant that on a cash flow basis, there was no need to dip into cash…
Type: News