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A Push To Free Washington Post Correspondent Jason Rezaian
Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian has now been held in an Iranian prison for one year, and that's the focus of this edition of Update-1. It was July 22 of last year when Iranian security forces swarmed Rezaian's home without warning and arrested him. Recently Ali Rezaian, Jason’s brother, and Post Executive Editor Marty Baron spoke at the club about the life Jason has lived since that day. Broadcast Committee member Ufuoma Otu is the host.
Type: Media
See, Be Seen at Fourth Estate Restaurant
Word is spreading fast in Washington media circles that the Fourth Estate Restaurant is the place to see and be seen at lunch and dinner. This week WJLA anchor Leon Harris stopped by for lunch with two colleagues. Make sure you're seen. Make reservations today at www.press.org/fourthestate or 202-662-7638.
Type: News
Speakers Urge More Action for Kids Caught in Disasters
America's disaster preparedness posture for children is inadequate and makes them the most vulnerable victims in crises like the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the chairman of the National Commission on Children and Disasters, Mark K. Shriver, told a National Press Club audience Oct. 5. "One defining quality that all Americans will remember about the last 10 years is the relentless onslaught of natural and manmade disasters and the constant threat of new ones that can strike at any moment," Shriver said. "For too many of us, this has been remembered as the disaster decade." Making a…
Type: News
Newspapers Far From Dead But Looking to Shift Burden of Revenue, Panelists Say
Newspapers are still looking to “unlock the funding streams” that will keep vibrant journalism alive, but most of them still make money today, if not the profits they had once enjoyed, panelists told host Marvin Kalb on the latest edition of “The Kalb Report” Oct. 5. “The Post will be here for a long time to come,” said Marcus Brauchli, executive editor of the Washington Post. “We serve readers over every platform that comes along. Our circulation has been stable over the last year or so.” Even with all of the personnel cuts in the newsroom and the reduction in the news hole during the past…
Type: News
ACORN Leader Concedes Scandal, Vows Reform, New Successes
The CEO of the embattled community organizing group ACORN vowed to reform its management in the wake of scandal and funding cutbacks at an Oct. 6 Speakers Committee news conference. “Nothing will be able to wipe away these 40 years of work, and nothing will be able to stop us from 40 more,” Bertha Lewis said. ACORN, founded in Little Rock in 1970, claims nearly 500,000 dues-paying members as it advocates for raising the minimum wage, improving banking practices for low-income customers and expanding voter registration. Lewis, director of the New York office before she succeeded founding CEO…
Type: News
Semiconductor Exec Stresses Importance of Educated Workforce
GlobalFoundries, a new semiconductor company, is swimming against the economic tide. In the midst of a deep recession, it broke ground over the summer on a $4.2 billion manufacturing facility in upstate New York that will employ 1,500. The firm chose a domestic location for its operation rather than China, Brazil or Russia because of the “ecosystem” created by the collaboration between government, educational institutions and the private sector, GlobalFoundries chairman Hector Ruiz said at an Oct. 5 Newsmaker. Over the last 15 years, the state has been developing the region that includes…
Type: News
U.S. Postal Service in acute financial crisis, Postmaster General says
The 234-year-old U.S. Postal Service is in acute financial crisis, John Potter, the 72nd Postmaster General said Thursday during a National Press Club luncheon. After losing a projected $7 billion in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, Potter said he is working to help the USPS reinvent itself. It won’t be an easy task, as 28 billion fewer pieces of mail were sent last year compared to fiscal year 2008, he said. Potter said that holiday mail, one of the traditionally highest volume periods of the year, was flat last year — and he expects it to be flat this December, as well. In addition to more…
Type: News
Thomas Friedman to Receive NPC Fourth Estate Award
Thomas Friedman, the ground-breaking New York Times foreign affairs columnist and author, will receive the 2009 Fourth Estate Award, the National Press Club's highest honor. The award is bestowed annually to an individual who has achieved distinction for a lifetime of contributions to American journalism. And that’s just what Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of best-selling books such as “Flat, Hot and Crowded,” has done, said Donna Leinwand, NPC president. “Tom Friedman has a passion for journalism that shows in his reporting and writing,” Leinwand said. “He has…
Type: News
Sheehan Describes Start of Cold War
“Without Bernard Schriever we might not be here this evening. We might be irradiated dust,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Neil Sheehan told a Club audience Oct. 7. Sheeham's new book, "A Fiery Peace in a Cold War," tells the story of the Cold war from its beginning. After World War II, as the United States and the Soviet Union developed nuclear weapons, both sides had to decide on a delivery system for the bombs. Sheehan’s book recounts the arguments over a delivery system for the United States. Sheehan said that Gen. Curtis Lemay, who favored the B-52 bombers, and Gen.l Bernard Schriever,…
Type: News
Ventriloquist Dunham, "Little People in Boxes" Trade Barbs
How does a stand-up comedian react to having his act viewed 90 million times on YouTube in the past two years? Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham, appearing at the Club with his “little people in boxes” Oct. 12, said he was surprised by three things: developing an international following, performing in arenas when his previous highest aspiration had been to play theaters and finding that “I have three daughters, and I’m actually cool.” He expressed amazement that people in Helsinki could shout lines from his DVDs. Before the 2007 YouTube clip, Dunham said, he had been “top of the game at the comedy…
Type: News