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Learn Google Fusion Tables with WNYC senior producer, noon May 1
Join Webbmedia Group for an intensive, hands-on introduction to Google Fusion Tables, one of the hottest new technologies available, from noon to 1:30 p.m. on May 1. Fusion Tables is a free tool that most newsrooms and others working with data use to create maps and real-time data visualizations. Click here to register. A discounted price is available for National Press Club members. The class is limited to 24 seats. This session is being taught by John Keefe, an award-winning journalist and the senior editor for data news & journalism technology at WNYC, New York Public Radio. Keefe…
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Enhance your reporting with data, mapping, noon April 25
Are you fascinated by amazing data and mapping projects you see from the New York Times and WNYC? Learn how to better use data and create mapping projects at the next Webbmedia Group meeting at noon Wednesday, April 25. This session, taught by John Keefe, an award-winning journalist and senior editor for data news & journalism technology at WNYC, New York Public Radio, will include a primer on free mapping tools and platforms that enable content producers to create incredibly detailed, interactive maps. Click here to register. A discounted price is available for National Press Club…
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Best-selling author, journalist panel assess state of investigative journalism, 6:30 pm April 25
Best-selling author and American University professor Charles Lewis will introduce his multimedia project, "Investigating Power," at 6:30 p.m. April 25 in the Holeman Lounge. Reservations are required at [email protected]. The event will include a panel discussion of independent journalism featuring an investigative reporter and leaders of journalism advocacy organizations. Lewis is executive producer of the project, founding executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop and professor of journalism at American University. He will moderate a panel featuring: Bill…
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Last call! Deadline looms for Silver Owls dinner reservations, 6:30 April 26
Less than a week is left for making reservations for the next Silver Owl Hoot on Thursday, April 26, when the National Press Club's most senior members gather for fellowship and fun, music and memories. The event will begin with a 6:30 p.m. reception, followed by dinner and a program featuring John Eaton, the great jazz pianist and one of the legendary interpreters of American popular music. The event will salute the the "long, gray line" -- the 32 surviving ex-presidents of the National Press Club and 10 surviving ex-presidents of the old Washington Press Club, which merged with the NPC in…
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Members receive discount at W Hotel
Did you know all members receive 20 percent off the best available rate at The W Hotel in Washington? The W Hotel is located just a few steps from the National Press Club. It is the ideal place to spend an evening in the city whether you're visiting Washington, staying late for work or making a night of it at the theater or catching a game. The member discount extends to your guests as well. Reserve your online discount here or call (202) 661-2400. For more information about your membership benefits please email [email protected]., or call (202) 661-2400.
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Hardball's Chris Matthews headlines NPC/Ford Foundation Awards luncheon, June 4
Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews and the weekly Chris Matthews Show, will be the featured speaker at the 25th annual Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation journalism awards luncheon, hosted by the National Press Club on Monday, June 4. The Ford Presidential Foundation will honor the winners of its annual awards for coverage of the presidency and for coverage of national defense issues. Winners have yet to be named. President Ford, who had a long association with the National Press Club, established the journalism awards through his Foundation. Matthews served as…
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Investigative fund director tells freelancers how to finance projects
Sandy Bergo, director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism, told members of the National Press Club Freelance Committee that the key to obtaining an investigative journalism grant is to break news and tell a compelling story. The bottom line for the investigative story? "Uncovering wrong-doing" Bergo, herself a former investigative journalist, said at an April 16 meeting at the Club. She discussed what makes an investigative news story and how a freelancer can get up to $10,000 or more to organize, complete and publish a significant investigative news story. The Fund for Investigative…
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Journalists, author to explore Obama administration's 'war on leaks,' 6:30 pm May 1
A panel of noted journalists and writers, plus a former spokesman for the Justice Department, will discuss the Obama administration's crusade against leaks of government secrets -- and against some of the journalists who report them-- at 6:30 p.m. on May 1 at the National Press Club. The discussion is co-sponsored by the Overseas Press Club of America and the National Press Club. Online registration is available here. Tickets are free for National Press Club and Overseas Press Club members and cost $10 for guests of members and non-members. NPC members must log in to press.org to get the…
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Alec Baldwin sticks to script, advocates more arts funding
Actor-activist Alec Baldwin, famously candid and notoriously outspoken, was relatively serious and subdued at his National Press Club luncheon appearance April 16, as he discussed his own cultural growth and stressed the importance of more federal funding for the arts — even in the current struggling economy. Baldwin, Emmy-winning star of the hit NBC sitcom, “30 Rock,” and also of stage and screen, is in Washington this week for Capitol Hill meetings as part of an effort by the advocacy group Americans for the Arts to raise consciousness about the importance of the arts and to increase…
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Club draws in top cartoonist Daryl Cagle
Plenty has been written about the trouble skyrocketing gas prices may pose to the White House, but MSNBC editorial cartoonist and new National Press Club member Daryl Cagle sums the topic up with no words whatsoever. Drawn in thick black lines, Cagle’s latest piece shows Obama, complete with exaggerated ears and a pronounced chin, looking warily over his shoulder. Towering above him is an anthropomorphic gas pump with a gaping mouth and menacing teeth. This is a clear example of what Cagle describes as “hitting people on the head with my opinion.” “I get to draw what I think in my own style…
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