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Turner, Pickens luncheon podcast now available
The "From the National Press Club" radio program featuring the April 19 luncheon on energy and climate change starring Ted Turner and T. Boone Pickens is now available at: http://www.press.org/news-multimedia/audio You also can find it iTunes for free download in the podcast section.
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Singh elected to board of Asian journalists association
National Press Club member Tejinder Singh was elected to the board of the Washington chapter of Asian American Journalists Association. Singh will serve as vice president for print for 2011-12. Former chair of the Club's Newsmakers Committee, Singh is currently a member of the Newsmakers Committee and International Correspondents Committee. Singh, a veteran multimedia political and business journalist, moved to Washington from Brussels, Belgium, two years ago to become White House correspondent for AHN Media Corp. and U.S. correspondent (multimedia) for India Today Group. Singh has lived in…
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Karzai opponent says corruption a bigger threat to Afghanistan than Taliban
Former Afghan foreign minister and 2009 presidential candidate Dr. Abdullah Abdullah told an April 21 Newsmaker audience that military success against the Taliban will mean little if Afghanistan's corrupt government cannot win over its own people. Abdullah, chairman of the Afghan Coalition for Hope and Change, also met with Department of State officials and members of Congress during his visit. The opthamologist-turned-politician said that even though he could not get meetings with higher-ranking officials, he "deemed it necessary to come to Washington to express my views." He said the…
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Former NPC President Art Wiese honored for lifetime achievement
Arthur Wiese, who served as National Press Club president in 1979, is being honored April 30 with a lifetime achievement award from the communications school at one of his alma maters, Sam Houston State University in Texas. Wiese, a retired former journalist and public relations executive, earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in journalism, history and political science from the school in 1967. He received a similar award two years ago from Southern Illinois University, where hegraduated in 1958 with a Master's of Science degree in journalism and history.
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Memorial service for Richard Lawrence, 2 pm May 7
A memorial service will be held for longtime National Press Club member Richard Lawrence at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 7, at Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Md. A much admired international trade reporter for The Journal of Commerce, Lawrence died in December. The church is located at 6601 Bradley Blvd. in Bethesda. The church office number is 301-365-2850.
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Hari Sreenivasan, PBS Newshour correspondent, joins 5K race
Hari Sreenivasan, on-air and online correspondent PBS NewsHour, will compete in the National Press Club’s 14th Annual Beat the Deadline 5K race on Saturday, June 11. The race time has been changed to 7:30 a.m. Sreenivasan joins the 5K Media Challenge to compete against other national news figures, including CNN's Suzanne Malveaux (race marshal) and Jill Dougherty, Fox News anchor Kelly Wright, Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, C-SPAN's Steve Scully, and Washington Post's Vicky Hallett. Sreenivasan is responsible for regular news updates on the NewsHour’s Web site in addition to appearing nightly on…
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Club members win GWU business plan competition
Two National Press Club members, Anthony Shop and Thomas Sanchez, co-owners of thedigital strategy firm Social Driver, took home first place and $25,000 in seed funding from the prestigious George Washington University Business Plan Competition (www.gwbizplan.com). The two Kansas City natives, along with their teammates Danny Zaslavsky and Dave Raffel who still reside there, developed a software application that helps auto dealers enhance the customer experience and accelerate the car-buying process. The Business Plan Competition is a real-life “Shark Tank.” The team survived three rounds of…
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Airline workers announce global alliance to protect rights
Airline union leaders from five continents announced the birth of One World of Labor Coalition as a response to the globalization of airline operations at an April 20 Newsmaker. John M. Conley, international administrative vice president of the Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO, was designated the organization's coordinator. With airlines forming global alliances, unions are increasing their worldwide leverage. "We should not suffer in collective bargaining agreements," Conley said. Conley and his global colleagues, who hail from countries ranging from the United Kingdom to…
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The Rise Of Fake Videos
Fake videos are a new form of digital media manipulation, and the former president and chief executive of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is warning about their dangers. In this edition of Update-1, Thomas Kent talks to Broadcast/Podcast team member Tom Young about technology being used to create video of events that never happened, or video of people making statements they never made. Kent describes video as the "ultimate verifier" for news consumers, but now he says they may no longer be able to believe what they see.
Type: Media
5K runway: Top model BiancaChardei joins race
A participant in the hit television show "America’s Next Top Model," BiancaChardei, will join marshals Tony Horton, creator of P90X, and Suzanne Malveaux, anchor of CNN Newsroom, in the 14th Annual Beat the Deadline 5K on Saturday, June 11. Other celebrities scheduled to run include Mary Schmidt Amons, a cast member of “The Real Housewives of DC,” Eleanor Clift, a contributing editor for Newsweek, Jill Dougherty, CNN foreign affairs correspondent, super model Kim Alexis and Kelly Wright, co-anchor of Fox News Channel’s “America’s News Headquarters.” Chardei has been featured in various Wal-…
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