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Club's 25th Anniversary featured opera singers, departed members
This Week in National Press Club History March 29, 1933: The National Press Club celebrates its 25th anniversary, with a skit called “Birth of a Nation’s Press Club,” which featured an accurate reproduction of the taproom in the Club’s earliest quarters over an F Street jewelry store. Members of the Club played the parts of departed charter members and its first bartender . Metropolitan Opera singers provided arias. This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through displays, panel…
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Golden Owl Tack Nail, long-time telecommunications reporter, dies after fall; Memorial service March 31
National Press Club Golden Owl Dawson "Tack" Nail, 82, who spent more than 50 years as one of the most prominent reporters covering broadcasting and telecommunications in Washington, died Friday, March 25, from complications following a fall at his Virginia home March 24. Nail, the longtime executive editor of Warren Communications News’ Television Digest and Communications Daily, was inducted last year into NPC's prestigious "Order of the Owl," reserved for the "wisest" long-time members of the club. In 1980, Nail joined C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb on the first C-SPAN call-in show, an…
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Snap, download... then what? Sign up for hands-on Photoshop class
Beginning Photoshop will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, and Intermediate Photoshop will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 13. Participants can attend either session or both. Participants should bring a couple of recent digital photos on a thumbdrive; laptops will be provided or participants may bring their own as long as they have Photoshop software. Please bring at least one photo with a person as the subject and one photo featuring of a location or landmark. JPEG file format is best, but any standard format (TIFF, TARGA, PNG, JPEG, RAW) will do as long as the photo has…
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CNN's Malveaux, Exercise guru Tony Horton to lead NPC's 5K
Tony Horton, P90X Home Fitness creator and author of Bring It!, and NPC's own Suzanne Malveaux, anchor of CNN Newsroom, will serve as Honorary Race Marshals for this year's Beat the Deadline 5K race on Saturday, June 11. The race begins at 8 a.m., but if you've really got some game, join the 5K Committee for a pre-race P90X® workout with fitness instructor Tony Horton at 7:45 a.m. Entry fees are $25 for NPC members and students, and $30 for general registration, until May 30; $35 for all runners after May 30; and $40 for all runners on race day. Register online at www.press.org/5k. All…
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Journalism Lessons From A Civil Rights Reporter
New York Times correspondent John Herbers was born to a white family in the segregated South, but he went on to earn praise for his pivotal coverage of the civil rights movement. Broadcast/Podcast Committee member Viola Gienger speaks with his daughter, journalist Anne Farris Rosen, about the personal and professional journey Herbers chronicled – and the lessons for journalists today -- in the memoir he wrote with her help before he died in 2017. Published this year, the book traces landmark events Herbers covered, such as the 1955 trial for the murder of Emmett Till, the assassination of…
Type: Media
Photo Image-Making Presentation, March 30, noon
Kevin Morris, a professional photographer, will discuss, "The Art and Commerce of Image Making," at the monthly luncheon meeting of the NPC Photography Committee on Wednesday, March 30, noon, in the McClendon Room. Morris will talk about the techniques and lighting involved with still-life and commercial photography. He will also discuss the production aspects of fashion photography, including working with talent and crews on location. Further, Morris will talk about the impact of the digital age on the photo industry. Morris was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and he has lived in Latin…
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Former Afghan Foreign Minister, Pres. Candidate is April 21 Newsmaker
The former foreign minister and presidential candidate of Afghanistan, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, will speak at a 3 p.m. Newsmaker Thursday, April 21, on the ongoing efforts to bring security and stability to his country. While in Washington, Dr. Abdullah also will give the keynote address at the 2011 World Islamic Forum.
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Author Kim Barker says Afghan people yearn for war to end
The people of Afghanistan are exhausted by the constant state of warfare in the country and yearn for its conclusion, regardless of who is winning, the author of a new book told an audience at the National Press Club on March 24. Kim Barker called her book Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan “a darkly funny story.” In the book, she recounts her experiences as a Chicago Tribune correspondent and as a woman in the countries from 2002 to 2009. Using the Kabul Zoo as a metaphor for wars from the Soviet invasion to the present, she noted that the zoo barely survived. Most of…
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Mellgren appointed to Board of Governors
Ken Mellgren, chair of the National Press Club Broadcast Committee, was named to the Club’s Board of Governors to fill the unexpired term of Jessica Brady, who resigned due to work commitments. Mellgren is in his third year as chair of the Broadcast Committee. He’s also been a member of the History & Heritage Committee, Retention Committee and 2011 Inaugural Committee. He spent 16 years with AP Broadcast in Washington, was a former program director at WRC Talk Radio and was a manager with Cox Broadcasting, Greater Media and General Electric Broadcasting. He’s a former president and…
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Author to tell FBI terrorism story, 6:30 pm March 28
Garrett M. Graff will discuss his new book, "The Threat Matrix: The FBI at War in the Age of Global Terror," at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 28th. Graff, editor of The Washingtonian, has spent more time traveling with FBI Director Robert Mueller than any other journalist. Given unprecedented access to once-secret documents and interviews, Graff goes inside the FBI’s war against terrorism. Graff details the FBI’s behind-the-scenes fight with the CIA, the Department of Justice, and several White House administrations over how to combat terrorism, balance civil liberties, and preserve security. Graff…
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