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On Your Mark: 5K Race Committee seeks members
Are you an avid runner, inspired by the challenge of completing in a 5K, or have a background in corporate marketing and fundraising? If so, you may have a spot on the Press Club's 5K "Beat the Deadline" 5K Run/Walk slated for June. Once again, fitness guru Tony Horton, creator of P90X, will serve as honorary race marshall for the event. We need your help to sign up race participants, promote the event, and work with sponsors for the charity fundraiser that supports the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library and diversity in journalism. If you have experience in corporate or…
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Break Out Your Bibs for Lobster Night at the 4th Estate: Reserve now
Steamed, 1 1/4-pound lobsters will be on the Fourth Estate Restaurant dinner menu Wednesday, Jan. 26. The price is $25 for members and their guests, $30 for non-members. The lobsters are served with drawn butter and a choice of oven-roasted potatoes or fries and coleslaw or green salad. Diners are seated from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Reservations are required 24 hours in advance, but some additional lobsters may be available for walk-in diners. To check on availability, call 202-662-7638 or email [email protected]. The lobster night special is offered the last Wednesday of every month for a…
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Heart disease will increase over next 20 years, heart association head says
The American Heart Association(AHA) predicts that about 40% of the U.S. population will have some type of cardiovascular disease. AHA Chief Executive Officer Nancy Brown announced the organizations projections, based on a study on the future costs of care for hypertension, coronary heart disease, heart failure and stroke, at a Jan. 24 Newsmaker event at the National Press Club. Cardiovascular disease remains the nation’s most prevalent and costly disease, amounting to 17% of total health expenditures and annual direct and indirect costs of $444 billion, Brown said. Based on these new…
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Great Reading: Autumn Membership, Dec. 13, BOG minutes posted online
The minutes of the Oct. 8, 2010 autumn membership meeting can be read in the members-only section of the NPC website by clicking here or at the following link: http://press.org/sites/default/files/2010_oct_genmem.pdf The minutes of the Dec. 13, 2010 Board of Governors meeting can be read by clicking here or at the following link: http://press.org/sites/default/files/2011_1_13_bog.pdf Minutes for all the NPC Board of Governors and Membership meetings can be found here. -- Myron Belkind, [email protected]
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Solidarity Night with Haitian journalists postponed; Refunds through Eventbrite
The Night of Solidarity with Haitian Journalists on Jan. 26 is postponed. Due to the current unrest in Haiti, many of the performers and speakers scheduled to attend could not get to the U.S. for the event. All ticket holders will receive full refunds through Event Brite. -- Melinda Cooke, [email protected]
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Bregg photographs on exhibit at NPC transport viewers to Iranian hostage crisis
Canadian Photojournalist Peter Bregg was there when 52 Americans, held hostage in Iran for more than two years, stepped off a plane in Algeria, en route to freedom. "Nothing had the juices flowing like those moments," Bregg said Friday at the opening of his National Press Club exhibit. "I had goose bumps." Bregg's photographs transported NPC members and guests back 30 years when the nation was transfixed by the fate of the 52 hostages held captive in the U.S. Embassy from Nov. 4, 1979 to Jan. 20, 1981. Soon after Iranians seized the U.S. embassy, the Iranian government expelled all American…
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Club Presents Vivian Awards to 28
Susan Heavey, a reporter with Reuters, received the National Press Club's top honor, the Berny Krug Award, for her volunteer efforts in 2010 at a ceremony Thursday night. Last year, Heavey chaired the Club's Professional Development Committee. She spearheaded the group's signature event, the Journalism Survival Bootcamp in May. The daylong session featured several panels of journalists and experts who provided insight into the evolving journalism field and advice to reporters and editors on staying competitive. Sessions focused on ways that journalists can become more technology-savvy,…
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Washington Post Spy Talk Columnist Addresses Young Members, Feb. 15
Washington Post Spy Talk columnist Jeff Stein will join the National Press Club's Young Members group for cocktails and conversation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15. A former Army Intelligence officer in Vietnam, Stein has spent years as an investigative reporter, digging into the shadowy world of intelligence, defense and foreign police. Stein has authored three books, including "Saddam’s Bombmaker" (written with Khidir Hamza), and has been a frequent contributor to periodicals ranging from Esquire, Vanity Fair, GQ and Playboy to The New Republic, The Nation and The Christian Science Monitor. He…
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Little To Celebrate In This Year's World Press Freedom Index
Hostility towards journalists and the news media is escalating dramatically worldwide, led by political leaders and authoritarian regimes, according to the latest World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders on April 25. In this episode of Update-1, NPC member Viola Gienger, a journalist who has reported from more than 30 countries and supported independent media in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, interviews Margaux Ewen, the North America director for Reporters Without Borders. Ewen discusses how the U.S. and other key nations ranked in this year's index and what…
Type: Media
Travel Committee Reception for Turkey, China Trips, Jan. 25
The National Press Club Travel Committee will host a special reception at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 25, in the Zenger Room for Club members and friends who are interested in the Club's upcoming trips to Turkey and to China, the Silk Road, and Tibet. The Turkey trip is scheduled for May 6-20 and the China/Tibet tour is from June 30-July 15. Guest specialists will make presentations on the itineraries and highlights of both trips and answer attendees questions. Space is limited. Please RSVP to Richard Meyer at (703) 356-6884 or [email protected]. -- Pat Schoeni, [email protected]
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