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Next Disaster Government Prevents With Openness May Be Its Own
Note: The following article was written by National Press Club President John Hughes and David Cuillier, chairman of the Society of Professional Journalists' Freedom of Information Committee, for Sunshine Week. Last year, federal officials made a startling discovery in a storage room overseen by the Food and Drug Administration at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Md. As reported by The Washington Post, the discovery included long-forgotten samples of smallpox along with boxes and vials of other pathogens, including the virus behind the tropical disease dengue. Close to…
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Attention NPC Members! Take a Moment To Help Free Jason
The National Press Club has long distinguished itself as the world's leading professional organization for journalists by speaking out for press freedom. We also hold programs and grant awards to defend the First Amendment. Now you must do something personally to further the cause. Sign a petition calling for the release of Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian from an Iranian jail here at http://chn.ge/1HOLUHz. Ask friends and colleagues to do the same by using your e-mail, Facebook page, Twitter feed, Instagram or word of mouth. Reach out to at least five people. Also, tell your friends to…
Type: News
This Truly Is The Place Where News Happens -- And I Mean Now
The National Press Club is the place where news happens. This year, so is the president's office at the Club. I am an editor at Bloomberg First Word, the breaking-news desk in Washington. Bloomberg has set up four large computer monitors at the president's office. These screens allow me to physically work at the Club during most of each work day. This has been tremendously valuable for juggling Club and First Word duties! As a result, the president's office has become a mini news bureau. The monitors allow me to be hard wired to hundreds of Bloomberg reporters and editors around the world.…
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MLK's Day at NPC -- and the Return Visit That Wasn't
The National Press Club is where titans have come to speak -- FDR, Kennedy, Mandela, Reagan, Gorbachev -- and of course Martin Luther King. It was July 19, 1962, when King walked into the Club's ballroom. This was eight days before he would be arrested a third time in Albany, Ga., at a prayer vigil, and spend two weeks in jail. It was a week after he was released from jail following his second Albany arrest, according to the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute. His ``I Have a Dream'' speech would occur more than a year later. At the time it felt like a typical Club…
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One Week on the Job: Observations of a Rookie NPC President
My first seven days as the National Press Club's 108th president were a whirlwind. What have I seen and learned? I see young people. I've known for years we have an active group of young members at the Club. But when I began working every day at the Club on Jan. 20, I realized the young members' presence was much larger than I thought. When I step out of the president's office, I frequently see young members taking advantage of the Club workspace. They talk on their phones and write on their laptops. Seeing them makes me feel like I'm in a newsroom, which of course I love. On Jan. 22, I met…
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Happy New Year!
Dear NPC Members: On behalf of the Board of Governors, I want to extend to all of you our best wishes for a very Happy New Year – with thanks for all your support in 2014 and with renewed optimism about our profession and our 107-year-old National Press Club. Our unparalleled professional, educational and social programs make the National Press Club so unique and so extra special. The NPC also is fortunate to have among its members professional communicators who develop their special programs that further enhance the Club. The National Press Club also is lucky to have many volunteer…
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Please Thank Our Staff for Making the National Press Club so Extra Special
Throughout year, we all enjoy the immense benefits of the National Press Club through its wide diversity of professional, social and cultural events. There is an untold story behind the success of those events, and it is the strong dedication by our staff of more than 100 who provide invaluable support in all aspects of the Club’s operations. Without this staff, the National Press Club could not be what it is today. Thus, I would like to urge all members to please contribute to the annual employee holiday fund – to demonstrate your own special thank-you to those who work so hard on the…
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Why the National Press Club is so special
I would like to share with you the full text of my remarks today to the General Membership Meeting. Welcome to the National Press Club. I am Myron Belkind, and I would like to begin my president’s report with a statement to you, the members of the Club, about a column published in yesterday’s Washington Post by Dana Milbank, one of our former members and a well known journalist who has written often about events that happen in rooms at the NPC just like this one. We respect Dana Milbank’s position as a columnist and we are pleased to see him when he is here visiting the Club and sometimes…
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Making A Difference for Press Freedom
Do statements by the National Press Club on freedom of the press make a difference? Yes, they do! So says Abdullah Elshamy, the Al Jazeera journalist who visited the NPC last Friday to talk about being held in an Egyptian prison for 10 months, half of them on a hunger strike, until his release last June on medical grounds. "Statements by the National Press Club and other news outlets here in the United States and across the globe really helped in my release," Elshamy said. He said the statements put pressure on the Egyptian government and contributed to his "walking free and being here today…
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Supporting Freedom of the Press
I would like to share with our members a statement I sent to the Foreign Editors' Circle of the International Press Institute, which met in Chicago on Sept. 17, detailing the Club's efforts in support of freedom of the press. The NPC was invited to send a statement to the forum, whose participants included international news editors or editors from the United States and Canada responsible for global coverage: The National Press Club applauds the efforts of the International Press Institute Foreign Editors Circle to have a very timely and important discussion on the common challenges in…
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