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Sponsors, donors sprint to Beat the Deadline 5K finish, June 11
Please join our Beat the Deadline 5K sponsors and race marshals Tony Horton of P90X and Suzanne Malveaux of CNN Newsroom for the 14th annual race for journalists and their sources at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 11. For more information or to register, go to www.press.org/5K. Packet pick-up and registration is Friday, June 10, from noon until 7 p.m. at the National Press Club, 13th floor, 529 14th Street, N.W. Race day registration is from 6:15 until 7:15 a.m. at the corner of 14th and F Streets NW. Horton will lead a pre-race warm up at 7:15 a.m., and the race begins at 7:30 a.m. from the…
Type: News
Go Campaign initiates $500,000 drive to help youth solve world problems
Leaders of the non-profit Go Campaign announced at a June 9 Newsmaker a $500,000 fund drive to help youth "solve real world problems and combat poverty in developing nations." The initiative will support a five-year grant program to find the innovators and entrepreneurs who will inspire youth to tackle challenges in their communities and around the world. Campaign board member and exercise guru Tony Horton, who will be a marshal at the June 11 Club 5K race, touted the drive. "We need something new in the fitness world...to help people to help their friends and neighbors" to be healthy, he…
Type: News
Club adds New Zealand wine to list at tasting, 5:30 pm June 10
The National Press Club will introduce a new wine to its lists at 5:30 p.m. Friday, June 10, in the Truman Lounge. Club Member Eleanor Stables will host a tasting of her label, Ten Sisters Sauvignon Blanc. The wine will be on sale by the glass. An editor, Stables has worked over the last two years to establish a wine business. Ten Sisters comes from her grandparents' vineyard in Marlborough, New Zealand. The wine was launched in the United States a year ago, with a focus on the Washington area. It is served at several local venues, including Bourbon Steak, Equinox, The Tabard Inn, Poste, Oya…
Type: News
Babbitt: Radicals in Congress waging shadow war on environment
Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt today accused “radicals” in Congress of waging a shadow war against the nation’s wilderness areas and called on President Barack Obama to gird for battle against increasing assaults on the environment at a June 8 Newsmaker. “It is clear to me that the House of Representatives will not only block progress but will continue to sustain an assault on our public lands and water,” he said, urging the president to act more forcefully to aid the cause of conservation. Babbitt, a popular former Arizona governor and unsuccessful 1988 Democratic Party presidential…
Type: News
NASA chief to address luncheon prior to final shuttle launch, July 1
NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. will address a National Press Club luncheon on July 1, one week before the final scheduled space shuttle launch. He will discuss America's continued commitment to leadership in human spaceflight and NASA's plans to extend human presence beyond low-Earth orbit. Bolden has flown aboard the space shuttle four times between 1986 and 1994, twice as commander. His flights included deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope and the first joint U.S.-Russian shuttle mission, which featured a cosmonaut as a member of his crew. Bolden also had a long career with…
Type: News
An Early Look At The 2020 Presidential Race
On this edition of Update One, veteran political journalist Larry Barrett, who covered campaigns, elections, and the White House, notably for Time Magazine and the New York Herald Tribune, looks at the early stages of the 2020 campaign, and the lessons learned--or the lessons that should have been learned--by the media. Interviewed by longtime Press Club member Irv Chapman, Barrett compares the Trump style and his policies with those of the dominant Republican personage of recent years, Ronald Reagan, and he talks about the experience of covering a campaign from the early stages to the White…
Type: Media
Bloomberg seeks transportation reporter
Bloomberg News is seeking a transportation reporter: http://careers.bloomberg.com/hire/jobs/job30292.html
Type: News
Journalist, author to discuss jailing, Mideast turmoil, democracy in Iran, 10 am June 16
Iranian-Canadian journalist, filmmaker and former Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari will recount his 118 days in a six-by-12-foot prison cell in Tehran's Evin prison at a Newsmaker at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 16. Bahari, author of "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival," was falsely accused of espionage by the Iranian government. He also will discuss today's Middle East turmoil and the possibility of a democratic Iran.
Type: News
Author, documentary producer Rick Beyer introduces new book, 6:30 pm June 14
Rick Beyer will introduce his new book, "The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales From Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy" at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 14, in the conference rooms. Learn how the FBI spent years trying to decode the lyrics of one rock song. Discover how Watergate provided the inspiration for A Chorus Line. Find out how one megahit was born in a history class, while another was dashed off in a fit of anger at actor Robert De Niro. Meet the monk behind solfège, the aviation pioneer who created Muzak, and the prisoner who literally sang himself out of jail.…
Type: News
Club members participated in D-Day 67 years ago
This Week in National Press Club History June 6, 1944: The D-Day invasion of Normandy begins. National Press Club members, both past and present, served during World War II in many capacities, as infantrymen, bomber and fighter pilots, war correspondents, in communications and Navy combat. This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the History and Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through displays, panel discussions, events, lectures and the oral history project. For more information on History and Heritage Committee-sponsored…
Type: News