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Find out how to get your stories found online, 6:30 pm March 16
Vanessa Fox, a former Google staffer and founder of Webmaster Central, will discuss search engine optimization at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, in the Murrow Room. Fox will provide a primer on the best ways to get your stories to show up in Internet searches. In an event sponsored by the Professional Development Committee, she'll cover how search engines determine results; key ways of integrating search best practices; connecting with readers through search while maintaining the integrity of the story; how to optimize Google News, images, video and Web search; and personalization, social…
Type: News
Journalism icon David Broder dies; received Fourth Estate Award in 1988
Pulitizer-prize-winning journalist and National Press Club member David Broder died on March 9 at 81 from diabetes complications. For more than 40 years, Broder was a reporter and columnist for the Washington Post, winning journalism’s top award in 1973 for his coverage of the Watergate scandal. Renowned in the capital and beyond the Beltway for his incisive analyses, he defined the rubric for political reporting and commentary. “He covered every presidential convention since 1956 and was widely regarded as the political journalist with the best-informed contacts, from the lowliest precinct…
Type: News
Luck O' The Buffet: Celebrate St. Patrick's Day at Reliable Source
The National Press Club will host a St. Patrick’s Night Buffet and celebration from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 17, in the Reliable Source Restaurant. The buffet will future traditional Irish favorites and music by guitarist Matt Palombo. The buffet is $17, not including beverage, tax and gratituity. The menu includes corned beef and cabbage, carrots, onions and potatoes, Guinness beef stew with potatoes, Hunters Pie with lamb and peas, salmon filets with Irish oat crust, green mashed potatoes with chives, rutabagas, turnips, leeks and carrots, Irish soda bread, Guinness chocolate cake,…
Type: News
Mullaney to perform in return of Jazz Night, March 24
Vocalist Maureen Mullaney is returning to the National Press Club to perform at the first Jazz Night of the year at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24, in the Truman Lounge. The Maureen Mullaney Quartet will feature classic and contemporary jazz and blues standards. Mullaney is one of Washington’s most sought-after and versatile vocalists. A frequent performer at The Phillips Collection, Twins Jazz and Black Fox Lounge, she performs an assortment of styles and genres including jazz, blues, rock, musical theater, and cabaret. More information is available online at http://www.maureenmullaney.com.…
Type: News
Journalists go for laughs at Comedia dell Media, 7 pm April 1; $12
Forget Pulitzer, Polk and Peabody. This year’s most highly-sought media award will be bestowed Commedia dell Media at the National Press Club at 7 p.m. Friday, April 1. Twelve competitors are lined up to vie for the title of D.C.’s Funniest Journalist at the third annual charity extravaganza. Cost is $12 until Friday, March 11, when the price will go up to $15 online and $20 at the door. Tickets are available online at www.press.org/comedy. Club members receive a $2 discount on all tickets and can receive the discount code by emailing Joshua Funk at [email protected]. Currently sharpening their…
Type: News
NPR chief defends funding, rebuffs bias accusations
Editor's note: Two days after speaking at a March 7 National Press Club luncheon, NPR chief executive Vivian Schiller resigned in the wake of the release of a videotape showing another NPR executive at a Feb. 22 meeting criticizing the Tea Party as "racist" and asserting that NPR would be better off without federal funding. Following is the coverage of Schiller's appearance at the Club. The risk that Congress will eliminate federal funding for public broadcasting is greater than ever, Vivian Schiller, NPR president and chief executive officer, told a National Press Club luncheon on March 7. “…
Type: News
Health care advocate to unveil mental illness education program noon, March 10
National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare CEO Linda Rosenberg will discuss the emergence of Mental Health First Aid, a new public-education program that teaches people how to help someone in crisis who is developing signs of mental illness or substance abuse at a Newsmaker at noon Thursday, March 10. Rosenberg will demonstrate how the program uses role playing and simulations to show participants how to assess a mental health crisis, select interventions and provide initial help until professional support is engaged. Brought to the United States from Australia in 2008, the program…
Type: News
Comic Harry Shearer addresses media mythmaking, March 14
Harry Shearer, famed voice of The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live cast member, radio host of Le Show, and star of the film This is Spinal Tap, will accuse the national press of perpetuating media myths in major news coverage at a National Press Club luncheon on March 14. Shearer says he hopes to “enhance the feeling of shame among practitioners” in the press, whom he says have a “blindness to accuracy.” He will argue that the nation’s top editors and producers are “notoriously herd-oriented," cling to first-draft versions of news stories, and are reluctant to adjust news narratives when new…
Type: News
Rep. Conyers to discuss guns, health care, workers' rights 10 am, March 14
Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Michigan, ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, will address congressional inaction on guns and also discuss health care, Afghanistan, jobs, workers’ rights and what he views as the U.S. Supreme Court’s threat to voting rights, at a Newsmaker at 10 a.m. Monday, March 14. -- Ron Baygents, [email protected]
Type: News
Finding Out What It's Like Covering The Trump Administration
On this edition of Update One, Bloomberg News White House Correspondent Margaret Talev discusses how to do your job when the president of the United States often disses the news media while his fans at rallies often scream at the reporters in the press row. Talev, who’s concluding her year as president of the White House Correspondents Association, describes life in the White House's cramped press center and how she deals with correcting misstatements from high places. Talev reported for newspapers from Florida to California before joining the Washington bureau of McClatchy newspapers and…
Type: Media