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Giovanna Dell'Orto: The Challenges of Reporting on Immigration
The challenges of covering immigration from the southern borders of the U.S. and the EU are the focus of the latest edition of Update-1, the National Press Club's podcast. NPC member Giovanna Dell'Orto, a journalism professor and former Associated Press immigration reporter, talks with International Correspondents Committee chair Molly McCluskey about how media coverage of immigration challenges is often too narrowly focused, and fails to take into account the cultural, political, and ecomomic factors behind mass migration.
Type: Media
Ambassador Says Maldives is Now a 'Liberal Democracy'
The ambassador of the Republic of Maldives told a September 22 Newsmaker his nation—a collection of 1,192 islands and “islets” off the southwest coast of India--“ushered in a liberal democracy with strengthened human rights safeguards” with the August 7 ratification of a new constitution. Mohamed Hussain Maniku said the act marked the culmination of almost four years of work by the former British colony's Constitutional Assembly and is seen as “heralding a new era in the democratic history of the nation.” He said the Maldives government now is “working with political parties, NGOs, other…
Type: News
Investigative Reporters -- Here's How to be a Real Investigator (and Make More Money)
Journalists Turned Full-Time Investigators Oct. 6, 6 p.m. There is life after working for traditional journalism companies. Hear first-hand from investigators who make higher salaries in a field where opportunity looms. Among those participating in the panel will be former journalists who started their own companies, including a headhunter for the investigative industry. Panelists: Gary Cohen, Orpheus LLC and former US News investigative reporter John Mintz, Mintz Group and former Washington Post investigative reporter Ken Cummins, Capitol Inquiry, Inc and former CityPaper writer and…
Type: News
NPC Gives Honorary Membership to 85-year Journalism Veteran Mildred Heath
NPC President Sylvia Smith presented Mildred Heath of Nebraska an honorary Club membership on Wednesday before Health was recognized as America’s oldest worker for 2008. Heath has been in the newspaper biz for 85 years. She may be the longest-working Club member. When she began working at her hometown newspaper at age 15, she taught herself to operate a Linotype – a machine that turned hot lead into lines of type for the printing press. “I got really good at it,” she said , “but the lead was really hot.” She still carries burn marks from those early days.
Type: News
Freelancers Networking Happy Hour: Oct. 16
Freelancers Network 5:30 to 7 p.m. Oct. 16 NPC members who freelance or hire freelancers will meet for a networking happy hour from 5:30 to 7 pm Thursday, Oct. 16. Drop by the Reliable Source any time during that period to meet the Freelance Committee co-chairs and schmooze with other freelancers. This is for NPC members only.
Type: News
Ukraine President to Speak Monday, Sept. 29
National Press Club "Morning Newsmaker" News ConferenceMonday, September 29, 2008, 11 a.m. Holeman Lounge The President of Ukraine Victor Yuschenko will discuss: NEW SECURITY CHALLENGES FOR EUROPE AND THE UKRAINE-US STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP President Yuschenko will outline his country’s position oncontemporary challenges for European security and Ukraine’scontribution to regional and international peace and stability. He will give a brief sketch of Ukraine’s history as a background for itsdynamic present and future development. He also will highlight theprominent role of the media in educating…
Type: News
Ukraine President Touts Close U.S. Ties
President Victor Yuschenko of Ukraine would not tell a National Press Club audience on Monday, September 29, whether he prefers Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, or Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, as the next U.S. president. But he says he is pleased that both of them are talking about Ukraine. The most important thing is Ukraine took on a prominent place in American politics,” Yuschenko said at a packed morning Newsmaker event in the Holeman Lounge. One reason that Ukraine has a high profile on this side of the Atlantic is that it lives next door to an increasingly assertive Russia, which made a…
Type: News
DC Schools Chief says Much More Work Ahead
Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee told her Monday NPC Luncheon audience that she has learned a lot about leadership in her first 15 months of trying to fix D.C.’s dysfunctional school system, “and one of the things I have learned,” she said, to knowing laughter, at the outset of her speech, “was that cooperation and collaboration and consensus building and compromise are totally overrated.” Rhee was only half kidding. She is controversial for her inclination to rule by fiat at times, closing 23 schools, firing almost 50 underperforming teachers and administrators, proposing a…
Type: News
Kalb/O'Reilly Go 15 Rounds
Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly and Marvin Kalb, host of "The Kalb Report," sparred over the news value of O'Reilly's show Saturday afternoon at NPC. "It's a rough, tough industry, television news," O'Reilly said. "Now I'm expected to deliver enormous ratings. It makes it harder to do straight news." He said if he puts himself up as someone who is challenging authority, "They're going to come back at you ... It's a raging war ... a thousand times harsher with the Internet." O'Reilly said he now has to have bodyguards wherever he goes, and his Web site is often attacked. But in 13 years,…
Type: News
Press Freedom Committee reports: Shield Law likely dead for session
Wes Pippert , chairman of the Press Freedom Committee, offers this update on several issues the Club has been involved in or been following: The shield law legislation is probably dead for this session of Congress, according to several representatives of media organizations who track freedom of the press issues. Club member Kevin Goldberg , a media attorney, says that press freedom groups fear a Senate calendar stuffed with economic legislation will leave no room for the media law before recess. Goldberg who, as counsel to the American Society of Newspaper Editors and other groups, meets…
Type: News