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Sponsors Donate $48,500 to the Beat the Deadline 5K
To date 32 sponsors have donated $48,500, one of the largest amounts in years, to NPC’s Beat the Deadline 5K race. Through the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library, these donations fund research and training for working journalists and scholarships for future journalists who contribute to diversity in their profession and communities. Newsmaker sponsors who have each donated $5,000 or more to the race include CQ Roll Call, P90X, Washington Examiner, T-Mobile, Sysco, Bloomberg and Coke. Anchor sponsors who have each donated $2,500 or more include the American League of Lobbyists,…
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Job Posting: AJC needs a Washington reporter
Cox Media Group is looking for an accomplished print reporter who is intrigued by the possibilities of using video, audio and digital media to tell his/her stories in a competitive media environment. While the focus of this reporter’s work is print, we’re looking for someone who is comfortable with being on air – broadcast and radio – and is attuned to social media and blogging. The primary audience for this reporter is metro Atlanta and Georgia, but the capacity to occasionally produce enterprise that could serve other Cox Media Group properties would be a plus. This reporter will report to…
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NPC Condemns Subpoena for Reporter in Leak Case
The National Press Club criticized Thursday a decision by the Justice Department to subpoena a New York Times reporter to testify in a criminal trial about who leaked him information for a book he wrote. Federal prosecutors issued the subpoena May 23 with the support of Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. The subpoena orders the reporter, James Risen, to testify in the case of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA employee accused of leaking to Risen material for a book he wrote about the CIA. "Reporters should not be forced to reveal confidential sources or be compelled to testify in cases…
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First "Meet the Press Club" event a "smashing success"
About 50 National Press Club members gathered Wednesday evening for the debut "Meet the Press Club" event at the Reliable Source. The informal mixer brought together Journalist and Communicator members, some from as far away as Japan and South Korea. Additionally, a visiting officer from New Zealand's National Press Club attended. The idea for the gathering was suggested at a recent "Dinner with the President", which was a discussion among members providing feedback and suggestions. NPC member Suzanne Struglinski Broadfield said members wanted a way to meet one another more effectively, for…
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NFL Players Association luncheon postponed
This Friday's luncheon with DeMaurice Smith, head of the NFL Players Association, has been postponed to accomodate NFL players who wish to participate in the luncheon but have scheduling conflicts due to the Memorial Day Holiday. As soon as a new date for the luncheon is scheduled, updates will be provided via The Wire and the Press Club website.
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Scowcroft to assess global security threats at NPC Luncheon June 14
Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Adviser to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, will address a National Press Club luncheon on Tuesday, June 14. Scowcroft, who is president of The Scrowcroft Group, and international consulting firm specializing in threat analysis, will discuss global security issues during the 24th annual Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Journalism Awards presentation made in conjunction with the National Press Club. Scowcroft also served as military assistant President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security…
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Ag Secretary Vilsack to speak on global food security, June 13 luncheon
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack will address a National Press Club luncheon on Monday, June 13. He will speak about global food security, in advance of the June 23 meeting of the ministers of agriculture from the G20 countries. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization wants developed countries to shift their assistance from providing emergency food to helping develop agriculture. Vilsack, 60, became the 30th secretary of agriculture in 2009. Previously he was a two-term governor of Iowa, where his 1998 election made him its first governor from the Democratic Party in…
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Environmental questions fuel natural gas drilling debate
Uncertainty over the environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling for shale natural gas, dominated a debate on regulating such drilling at a May 24 NPC Newsmaker. Adrian Kuzminski, an anti-drilling activist from Sustainable Otsego, an upstate New York "grass roots" organization of 600 people, opposed fracturing. "Natural gas is not a substitute for oil, but an extension," he said. Gas is at least as dirty as coal or oil because it releases methane that could migrant into water supplies, he said. He proposes substituting conservation and clean energy sources for further…
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Reserve now for director's screening of CSI actor Gary Sinise film "Lt. Dan Band"
A few tickets remain for the June 29 Director’s Screening of the film Lt. Dan Band: For the Common Good, featuring Gary Sinise, the Oscar-nominated actor who stars in the hit CBS series CSI: New York. The film chronicles Gary and his Lt. Dan Band as they travel around the world performing for the nation’s military. The screening will begin in the ballroom at 6:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A with film director Jonathan Flora and producer Debora Flora. To RSVP, email [email protected]. The documentary will be shown the evening before Sinise’s NPC luncheon address where he will announce…
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State Department, Lithuanian officials to preview democracy meeting
The Deputy Foreign Minister of Lithuania Egidijus Meilunas and Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Tomicah Tillemann will preview a high level democracy meeting to be held next month in Vilnius, Lithuania at a Newsmaker Thursday, March 26 at 3 p.m. The Vilnius meeting comes at the end of Lithuania's presidency of the Community of Democracies CD) and will have a special focus on supporting democratic transition and consolidation worldwide--but especially in North Africa and the Middle East--and on helping bridge the gap between the principles of democracy and universal human…
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