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National Press Club Decries Embedding Censorship
The U.S. military’s decision to bar embedded reporters in Afghanistan from publishing photographs of U.S. military personnel injured or killed in action hampers journalists' ability to independently report the war and the public's right to know. \"The U.S. military should not determine what is and is not news," National Press Club President Donna Leinwand said. "Censoring journalists who cover war and permitting only government-approved news and photographs undermines our country's fundamental commitment to a free and independent press." The policy applies to Regional Command East,…
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Schieffer, Dowd, Tarde to Roast Friedman; Reserve Now for Nov. 13 Fourth Estate Award
Bob Schieffer of CBS's "Face the Nation," New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and Jerry Tarde, editor in chief of Golf Digest, will join the National Press Club in roasting and toasting Thomas Friedman at the National Press Club's 37th annual Fourth Estate Award dinner on Nov. 13. Each year the NPC honors a journalist for his or her lifelong contributions to the profession, and this year's award will be presented to Friedman, a New York Times columnist who has won three Pulitzer Prizes. Two-tier ticket pricing for NPC members is: $95 per person for the general reception and dinner. $150…
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Private Equity Exec Outlines Plan to Plug Lending Gap
A private equity executive outlined her plan to revive lending to small and middle market companies at an Oct. 15 Newsmaker. Lynn Tilton, CEO of Patriarch Partners, said that her public-private investment proposal would plug the lending gap while faltering banks recover. The plan would utilize unused TARP funding to encourage qualified private investors to provide rescue financing to companies shut out of bank loan or credit markets. Tilton said that the program would help the small and medium-sized businesses that employ a majority of Americans while protecting the country's…
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Military Rescinds Ban on Images of War Dead
In the wake of protests by the National Press Club and other news organizations, the U.S. military command in eastern Afghanistan rescinded a ban on the publication of photos depicting slain U.S. military personnel. NPC President Donna Leinwand, a reporter with USA Today, had criticized the move in an Oct. 16 statement. "The U.S. military should not determine what is and is not news," Leinwand said. "Censoring journalists who cover war and permitting only government-approved news and photographs undermines our country's fundamental commitment to a free and independent press." In a democracy,…
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Please Welcome 48 New Club Members
The Board of Governors approved 48 member applications Oct. 19, bringing the total so far this year to 345, compared to 368 for the same period last year.The new members are: ActiveGary Gentile – Platts, Sr. Writer; Carlos G. Hamann - Agence France-Presse, Editor/Reporter; Dana Milbank - Washington Post, Columnist; Michele Salcedo - The Associated Press, Newsperson; Andrea Shalal-Esa – Reuters, Correspondent; Kyung Song - The Seattle Times, Reporter; Cynthia A. Tucker - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Columnist Active Non-ResidentEmmanuel Earl Ankrah - Ghana Broadcasting Corporation,…
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Prof Outlines Sports Stats to Illuminate Players, Teams
When fans read an account of their favorite football team’s game in stories in the morning paper or on the Web, a three-yard plunge by the star fullback is recorded as three yards, whether the play gains a first down or falls far short of the marker. But those two results vary in their impact on the game, and that difference should be reflected in the statistics that journalists use to describe the contest, according to an academician who spoke at an Oct. 20 Newsmaker. Wayne Winston advocates a more rigorous approach to evaluating players and teams in football, basketball and baseball. He…
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Human Rights Advocates Call for Guantanamo Accountability
Human rights advocates, lawyers and Common Cause said the United States violated Geneva Conventions in treatment and interrogation of detainees in Iraq and at a military detention facility in Cuba and that former Vice President Richard Cheney should answer for the abuses at an Oct. 16 Newsmaker. Emmet Bondurant, the attorney representing Mohammed Al Ansi, Scott Horton, Columbia Law School lecturer, Ellen Massimino, CEO and executive director of Human Rights First, and former Rep. Bob Edgar, president and CEO of Common Cause, explored prisoner abuse, military commissions trying detainees,…
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Hip-hop Star Says Giving Back is Duty of Celebs
Celebrities have a duty to giveback to society and use philanthropy as a tool for change, hip-hop star and actor Chris “Ludacris” Bridges said Oct. 23. “I feel like every celebrity, even if they don’t realize it, they have great responsibility and great influence. With great power comes great responsibility,” the 32-year-old Grammy winner said. Bridges, who has sold 24 million records worldwide, put music aside to talk about leadership and charity at a National Press Club luncheon. “There are calls for everyday people to take leadership roles in philanthropy in order to help the communities…
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Chinese Shipping CEO Sees Expanded U.S.-China Trade, Economic Recovery
Even though trade between the United States and China already has grown 130 times since the two countries established diplomatic relations 30 years ago, “the golden age is ahead of us” said Capt. Wei Jiafu, president and CEO of the Chinese Ocean Shipping Co. (COSCO), at an NPC Luncheon Oct. 26. “Welcome to China,” said Wei in an appeal to U.S. companies to do business with his country. Visiting Washington as leader of a delegation of Chinese service-sector companies in his role as president of the Chinese Association of Trade in Service, he predicted that American firms “will have more…
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Renewable Experts Detail Need for Energy Storage
Grid and power experts said compressed air storage for renewable energy is essential as wind, solar and other renewable resources begin to play a more significant role in the US power generation mix. At an Oct. 27 Newsmaker, PJM CEO Terry Boston, Electric Power Research Institute researcher Robert Schainker and Energy Storage and Power CEO Stephen Byrd addressed the potential of energy technology to counteract the intermittency of renewables and called for additional incentives to prime the market. The event occurred after President Obama announced a $3.4 billion electricity grid improvement…
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