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Club member Kay Shaw Nelson, ex-CIA spy, dies at 93
Katherine (Kay) Shaw Nelson, a former CIA spy, world traveler and prolific cook book author who was a 45-year member of the National Press Club, died June 20 at her home of 60 years in Bethesda, Md. She was 93. Her daughter, Rae Nelson, said she died as she had wanted, at home and active to the end. Nelson was born in Lebanon, N.H., a small town just east of the Connecticut River near White River Junction. She began writing for her local newspaper while in high school, as male reporters went off to World War II, and then for the Manchester Union Leader. A top student, she won a…
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Sample booze, boost press freedom, tomorrow, 6 p.m.
More than 100 craft distillers from around the country will share their bourbons, vodkas, gins and more tomorrow, Tuesday, July 23, to benefit the National Press Club’s Journalism Institute. The event, to be held in the First Amendment and Holeman Lounges, will begin at 6 p.m, and will be open to members of the Club, working journalists and the general public. Please register online. The tasting is sponsored by the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States and the American Craft Spirits Association to raise funds for the Club's Journalism Institute, which campaigns for press freedom…
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Status of the Aviation System
Ms. Garvey talked about aviation safety and security following terrorist hijackings and attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. She also talked about the impact of the attacks on the financial status of the airline industry. Following her remarks she answered questions from the audience.
Type: Media
All Club members encouraged to participate in online survey
A message from National Press Club President Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak Dear Colleagues, In an effort to better serve our members, be a resource for journalists and communicators, and advocate for press freedom worldwide, the Club's leadership is developing a new, five-year strategic plan. The strategic planning committee, led by Vice President Michael Freedman and including a diverse group of current members of the Board of Governors, is reviewing the Club's programming, physical plant, business, and membership policies. To inform this process, we have engaged a consulting partner, Hudson…
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There's still room; Sign up for Club's summer BBQ, jazz event, tomorrow
Tickets are still available for the Reliable Source restaurant's special summer BBQ this Thursday, July 25. Food and dirnks will be served beginning at 5:30 p.m. Then, the Greater U Street Jazz Collective will perform in the Truman Lounge beginning at 6. Domestic beers and wines will be available to complement your dinner. The price of the buffet is $32 for National Press Club members and $37 for nonmembers, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations are recommended at 202-662-7443 or at [email protected]. Here's the menu: Soup Grilled green tomato soup with crab meat SaladsCreamy red potato salad with…
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Walk through presidential history, then watch Democratic candidates debate, July 31
The National Press Club Events Team invites Club members to stroll down the historical road to the White House at an event showcasing presidential campaign memorabilia at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 31. The talk by collector Jerry Higgins will take place in the Truman Lounge just before the fourth Democratic Party debate, which will be aired on the lounge’s televisions. Higgins has spent decades meticulously collecting campaign artifacts and will escort you on a tour of two centuries of U.S. history, explaining how candidates and their supporters wielded memorabilia to win over voters. The…
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Hear how journalists can maintain trust with victims and whistleblowers at Institute program, tomorrow
What makes a whistleblower or someone who’s been a victim of a crime or major misdeed willing to come forward to a particular journalist or outlet? Find out tomorrow, Thursday, July 25, at a National Press Club Journalism Institute program in the Conference Rooms from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., from the subject of the Washington Post story,"'The man who attacked me works in your kitchen’: Victim of serial groper took justice into her own hands," as well as her advocate and the Post journalists they trusted. Doors for the event will open at 6:15 p.m; the program will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m.…
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Annapolis Capital Gazette, Baltimore Sun win breaking news award from National Press Club for shooting coverage
The Annapolis Capital Gazette and the Baltimore Sun won the breaking news award in the National Press Club journalism contest this year for their courageous coverage of the shooting that killed five people at the Annapolis paper in June of last year. The Associated Press won the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence for its coverage of children affected by the Trump administration’s immigration policies. National Public Radio won breaking news broadcast for its coverage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Reuters won consumer journalism-newspapers for its coverage of the…
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At NPC event, journalists covering gun violence deplore failure to address the issue
On a day that the Washington Post reported that 11 people were shot, eight fatally, over five days in the District of Columbia, prize-winning Post reporters Wesley Lowery and John Woodrow Cox stressed to a National Press Club audience the tragedy of the nation’s failure to address the trauma of gun violence in our society. “Every hour of the day, a child is shot in this country,” said Cox at the July 23 event, billed as a “conversation “on media coverage of gun violence. ”We haven’t studied gun violence in two decades,” he said – not since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost…
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Current Club podcast examines how students determine what's true and what isn't
How America’s young people are learning to separate fact from fiction in today’s information avalanche is discussed by three leading experts in the current edition of Update-1, the National Press Club’s podcast. The podcast features interviews with Belinha de Abreu of Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., chair of the annual conference; Jeff Share, who teaches new teachers at UCLA; and Natasha Casey, a teacher at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Ill. They helped lead the National Association for Media Literacy’s recent annual conference in Washington. On Update-1, they discuss helping…
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