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UN envoy, author Hosseini to present report on refugees at June 20 Newsmaker
Khaled Hosseini, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) goodwill envoy and best-selling author, will present the 2011 Global Report on Refugee Trends during a National Press Club Newsmaker beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 20 in the club's Zenger Room. Hosseini will discuss large-scale trends, the urgent need for greater international assistance, the impact of long-term displacement on host communities, recent solutions for the Afghan refugee and displacement situation, and trends in industrialized countries such as the United States.
Type: News
Win exclusive access to U.S. Open while helping NPC Journalism Institute
The National Press Club Journalism Institute is auctioning off two tickets for courtside seats and Presidential Suite access at the 2012 U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York to benefit news media training and scholarship programs. The highest bidder will enjoy lunch in the luxurious and exclusive U.S. Tennis Association President's Dining Room, access to the hospitality lounge in the Presidential Suite, and a behind-the-scenes tour of Arthur Ashe Stadium. This is an opportunity available to only a select few and never for sale to the general public. To bid, click here: http://www.press.org…
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Hundreds Race in annual National Press Club 5K, Teddy Roosevelt doesn't win
Hundreds of runners took to the streets of downtown Washington June 9 for the National Press Club's annual Beat The Deadline 5K to raise money for scholarships that promote diversity in journalism. Celebrity participants including fitness guru Tony Horton and Washington Nationals mascot President Teddy Roosevelt helped to fire up participants to run hard. President Roosevelt slapped runners' hands as they crossed the finish line, though once again, Teddy didn't win the race. Runner Dan Lewis finished with the overall fastest time and best time for a male runner at 15:23. Tezeta Dengersa was…
Type: News
NPC press freedom award honors three who died in Syria, intelligence reporter
The National Press Club is honoring three journalists who died this winter covering the conflict in Syria and an intelligence reporter who has repeatedly uncovered material the government would prefer to keep secret and who is fighting in court to protect a source. The winners of the 2012 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award for international coverage are reporters Anthony Shadid, Marie Colvin and photographer Remi Ochlik, who died in Syria during February. All three had led distinguished careers in which their work shed needed light on a troubled region. Shadid, a reporter for The New York…
Type: News
This Week In National Press Club History
June 11, 1927: The Club holds a reception for the most famous man in the world at that time, aviator Charles Lindbergh, who had just completed his historic solo flight across the Atlantic. The Club quarters were too small to hold the crowd, so the auditorium of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was booked instead. June 11, 2001: Historian David McCullough, winner of numerous Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Awards for his monumental works on major American political figures and historical eras, discusses his hit biography of John Adams at a book rap. Over the past thirty years, the Club has…
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NPC sends four people to first Metropolitan Media Softball League all-star game
The National Press Club will have four representatives in the first-ever Metropolitan Media Softball League all-star game July 7 at Layhill Park. Michael Young and Membership Director Sarahanne Driggs will play for the all-star squad representing print publications and national media, against a team comprised of employees of broadcast and cable networks. Former NPC President Jonathan Salant, the founder and first coach of the club's co-ed softball team, will manage the squad, while another club member, Ken Giglio, will coach. The game will take place a week before the league's playoffs, which…
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Silimeo’s career path winds through broadcasting, government to public relations
National Press Club communicator member Debra Silimeo, recently named executive vice president of the public relations firm Hager Sharp, showed the journalistic and economic interests that would inspire her career as a fifth grader. She published a newspaper covering her row-house neighborhood in the Philadelphia area and sold it for two or three cents. When she had a special issue on her father’s business trip to Alaska, she raised the price to five cents. She initially ignored her early endeavor when she started college as an art major. But soon she switched to Temple University to study…
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Issues in the 1986 Elections
Type: Media
Bid on tickets for suite access, courtside seats at the U.S. Open tennis tournament
Bid now on two tickets for courtside seats and Presidential Suite access at the 2012 U.S. Open. The highest bidder for these exclusive tickets will enjoy lunch in the luxurious and exclusive U.S. Tennis Association's President's Dining Room, access to the hospitality lounge in the Presidential Suite and a behind-the-scenes tour of Arthur Ashe Stadium -- an opportunity available to only a select few and never for sale to the general public. To bid, click here. http://www.press.org/institute/us-open-tickets Bidding ends at 5 p.m. July 27. See additional rules below. In addition to the great…
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Lithuanian former journalist says country tried to deny speech, send him to prison
Algirdas Paleckis, a Lithuanian politician, diplomat and former investigative journalist, said June 7 his country failed to investigate what he considers a sniper attack on innocent civilians in January of 1991. "Lithuania broke away from the USSR in late 1991, but earlier, in January 1991, the Soviet troops took over the Vilnius TV center and 14 people died," Paleckis said at a National Press Club Newsmaker. "The Lithuanian government blamed the troops but presented practically no evidence and until now did not bring the investigation to the end." Paleckis said he did his own investigation…
Type: News