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NPC Newsmaker: Mental Health & The Opioid Crisis
At a September 25, 2017 National Press Club Newsmaker event Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), Co-Chair of the House’s Addiction Treatment and Recovery Caucus, joined three frontline healthcare workers to discuss the opioid crisis, what they see as the lack of parity between mental health and physical healthcare and their call for action by the Congress and the Trump Administration. Speaking at the news conference: Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) Jackie Schalit Kenneth Rogers PsyD. Cuyler Costanzo
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NPC Luncheon with NEA President Lily Eskelsen García
As more than 50 million public school students head back to classrooms across the country, National Education Association (NEA) President Lily Eskelsen García assessed the Trump education agenda and its potential impact on students and public schools at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon September 8, 2017. Eskelsen García’s address to the club came at a time when the U.S. Department of Education, under the leadership of Secretary Betsy DeVos, was seeking to expand efforts to privatize public education and roll back student protections. Eskelsen García offered not only a critique of the…
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NPC Newsmaker: Civil Rights & DOJ - Then & Now
White supremacists march through a southern city. The federal courts are hearing cases involving issues of voting rights and discrimination. Is it 1965 or 2017? Former assistant attorneys general from both Republican and Democratic administrations appeared at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event on Sept. 7, 2017 to discuss the federal government’s role in protecting civil rights. This was the 60th anniversary of the creation of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. The four panelists who each led the division looked at what progress has been made since 1957 and what…
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2017 National Press Club Journalism Awards and NPC Journalism Institute Scholarship Winners Dinner
Among the honorees: Bloomberg wins the Breaking News Award for their coverage of the Brexit vote, the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold is honored for tracking Donald Trump’s charitable contributions, and NPR’s David Folkenflik wins the top award for press criticism in broadcast.
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NPC Luncheon with Derrick Johnson
New NAACP President Derrick Johnson addressed the future of the NAACP at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on Aug. 29, 2017.
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Can We Talk? Public Access, Security And Civility In A Hyper-Partisan Age
In hopes of de-escalating the increasingly fraught relations between the press and the people they cover, the National Press Club’s nonprofit Journalism Institute on Aug. 4 convened Can We Talk?, an open meeting for newsmakers, the people who protect them and the people who cover them. After a year of violent words and sometimes violent acts, we believe the time has come to talk with each other —instead of at each other — about how we can all do a better job for the democracy we serve. We hope this will mark the beginning of a continuing conversation. We are starting with a focus on Capitol…
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NPC Luncheon with Gen Mark A. Milley
The Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army General Mark A. Milley spoke at a National Press Club Luncheon on July 27, 2017.
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NPC Luncheon with Rep. Mark Meadows
As the House and Senate negotiated the final version of legislation to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC-11) spoke at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on July 24, 2017.
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NPC Luncheon with Amtrak CEO Wick Moorman
The President and CEO of Amtrak, Charles W. "Wick" Moorman IV, discussed the challenges facing America’s passenger rail system and the changes to come at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on July 12, 2017. Moorman’s speech focused on the renovation of New York’s Penn Station and other needed infrastructure projects, as Congress considers President Trump’s pledge to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure.
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NPC Headliners Book Rap - Peter Baker and "Obama: The Call of History"
Chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, Peter Baker, appeared at a National Press Club Headliners event on June 29th, 2017 to discuss his new book, "Obama: The Call of History."
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