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Canceled: David Guas wine dinner, May 3
The wine dinner featuring acclaimed chef David Guas of Bayou Bakery, author of "Dam Good Sweet," scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 3, at the Fourth Estate Restaurant has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to seeing you at a future Chef's Dinner.
Type: News
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo at Reliable Source
On Thursday, May 5, National Press Club members can celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Dinner and a Movie, Drinks and Conversation, or all of the above. The Events Committee asked members to vote on their choice of movie to be shown in the McClendon Room. The members overwhelmingly selected "The Tourist," starring Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. Whether members choose to watch the movie, beginning at 7 p.m., or to mingle in the Truman Lounge, the Reliable Source bar will offer Mexican fare and drink specials. The menu will include nachos, taco salad, burritos with beef, chicken or tofu, and…
Type: News
UN refugee official to explore humanitarian emergency in Libya, 9 am May 3
Antonio Guterres, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, will discuss the humanitarian emergency generated by the conflict in Libya at a Newsmaker at 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 3, in the Zenger Room. With more than 500,000 people displaced by the fighting, Libya is one of the most pressing displacement situations in the world, according to Guterres. He also will discuss the displacement caused by the recent fighting in Ivory Coast. Guterres became the 10th UN High Commissioner for Refugees in 2005. A former Portuguese prime minister (1995 to 2002), Guterres was reelected last year by the…
Type: News
Press Club Rewind features Turner, Pickens, new Haitian president
This week's edition of Press Club Rewind features the April 19 luncheon starring Ted Turner and T. Boone Pickens; the North American Libyan conference; the newly elected Haitian oresident; Afghanistan opposition figure Dr. Abdullah Abdullah; and a performance by the Society of American Magicians. Press Club Rewind is a weekly series about National Press Club events produced by the Club's Broadcast Committee. Click the "Related Video" link to the right to watch it now. Click Here to Visit the Rewind Archives
Type: News
FEMA Administrator Fugate to discuss planning for catastrophic disasters, hurricane season, 1 pm May 4
Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate will speak at a Newsmaker at 1 p.m. Wednesday, May 4. As the United States faces significant flooding, tornado and wildfire events and the upcoming hurricane season, Fugate will explain how FEMA and the federal government have been planning for catastrophic disasters. Fugate will also discuss the agency’s efforts to use social media to better engage and support the public and its work with the private sector.
Type: News
C-SPAN’s Steve Scully enters 5 K race, June 11
Steve Scully, C-SPAN senior executive producer, political editor, and host of “Washington Journal,” will run in the National Press Club’s 14th Annual Beat the Deadline 5K, Saturday, June 11. Scully has been recognized among Cable’s 100 Heavy Hitters and as one of the media’s most influential movers and shakers in political programming. He also hosts C-SPAN’s “In Depth” and “Road to the White House.” He is senior producer for C-SPAN’s White House coverage, former president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and one of its board members. To compete with Scully and your other…
Type: News
A Podcast About Newsletters With The Creator Of A Newsletter About Podcasts
In the latest episode of Update-1, National Press Club members Michael Yessis and Molly McCluskey discuss everything newsletters - which ones they read, what they’ve learned by starting their own, and advice for future newsletter creators. Michael is the founder and editor of This Week in Podcasts (@WeekinPodcasts), which offers a weekly roundup in all of the best and latest podcast episodes you might have missed, and Molly is the creator of Diplomatica (DiplomaticaDC), which is a multimedia exploration into the hidden histories of diplomatic properties in Washington, D.C. and around the…
Type: Media
National Press Club calls for halt to abuses of reporters
As World Press Freedom Day approaches next week, the National Press Club is drawing attention to the unacceptable frequency with which journalists in dozens of nations are imprisoned, abused, beaten or killed. "The National Press Club deplores in the strongest possible terms the mistreatment of reporters wherever it may occur and calls for the release of every journalist who has been detained for the 'crime' of doing his or her job," said National Press Club President Mark Hamrick. The National Press Club will be the principal site for the U.N.-sponsored World Press Freedom Day on May 3. The…
Type: News
Public media executive urges tripling of federal funds for non-profit broadcasting
Congress needs to triple rather than cut the $450 million non-profit media receive annually, Bill Kling, CEO of American Public Media, said at an April 26 National Press Club event on the future of broadcasting. Congress received "500,000 letters, e-mails and phone calls opposed to the cuts threatened by the House and supported by some members of the Senate," Kling said. The cuts were not made, but media leaders fear they still might be. Joyce Slocum, interim president and CEO of NPR, said the public radio network "gets little of its funding from the federal government." But she said federal…
Type: News
Mayors to call for metropolitan transportation investments, 9 am May 3
The U.S. Conference of Mayors will release a new survey of its membership focused on metropolitan transportation investments at a Newsmaker at 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 3. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed will present the findings and take questions. Two-thirds of U.S. residents live in metropolitan areas, home to the highest numbers of unemployed, the nation’s worst traffic jams, and its oldest roads, bridges and transit systems, according to the mayors group. But far less than two-thirds of federal transportation funds are allocated to cities and metropolitan areas, they will argue. Among the major…
Type: News