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Former Majority Leader Dole recalls bipartisanship in Senate, lauds military veterans in Veterans Day interview
Former Senate Majority Leader Robert "Bob" Dole, in an interview with National Press Club President Michael Freedman that aired on Veterans Day, said he is confident that the United States will continue to retain military superiority. “Our president," Dole said, referring to President Trump, "by doing what he did in military areas has assured that we’re going to be the strongest country in the world for years and years to come.” “We have the military might to take on anyone,” he added.
Type: News
NPC in History: The surprise after Joe Biden’s speech
Every president beginning with Theodore Roosevelt has spoken at the National Press Club either before, during or after his administration. With the election of Joe Biden, I checked his record. Biden, a fixture of Washington politics for nearly 50 years, has visited the Club many times, speaking at seven luncheons from 1986 to 2007. He delivered one such speech during the first year of the George W. Bush administration With the Senate evenly split following the 2000 election, Biden had just taken over the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont switched his party…
Type: News
U.S. Press Leaders Urge Release of Detained Journalist in Bangladesh
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 18, 2021--Leaders of the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute condemned this week's arrest of Bangladeshi journalist Rozina Islam and urged the court that is scheduled to hear her case on Thursday to release her. Calling it a "black chapter" in the history of their nation, the Bangladesh Editor's Council said Islam's arrest "threatens the very existence of the press" in their country. An investigative reporter for the daily newspaper Prothom Alo, Islam could face 14 years in prison or the death penalty under the terms of the colonial-era…
Type: News
Bittman: Lack of affordable quality food is a public health crisis
For years, Mark Bittman has been famously writing about how to buy and cook all manner of food. Yet his latest book, “Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal,” delivered several stark messages that he discussed during a May 13 National Press Club Headliners event. Bittman kicked off the discussion by speaking about the five-year evolutionary process of writing his book and the subject focus that kept rising to the top. “It just became increasingly clear that there were increasing problems with our food system with the food we were growing and processing and…
Type: News
U.S. Press Leaders Urge Israel to Halt Strikes on Media Facilities
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15, 2021--U.S. press leaders called for Israel to stop attacking buildings that house journalists in Gaza after an Israeli missile destroyed the al-Jalaa building, which housed offices of the Associated Press, al Jazeera and other news organizations. Israeli officials said they struck the al-Jalaa building because Hamas used part of it. But Saturday’s strike was the latest in a series of Israeli military attacks on facilities where journalists have been working to bring to the world the story of the ongoing conflict. On May 11 and May 12, Israeli warplanes bombed two…
Type: News
Communicators to host healthcare media panel, May 20
During an upcoming online conversation hosted by the National Press Club Communicators Team, a panel of healthcare reporters will describe how their jobs have evolved, especially while facing the challenges of covering a global pandemic. The “Meet the Healthcare Media” Lunch and Learn session will be held on Zoom on Thursday, May 20, at noon. Admission is free for Club members. Guests are welcome to attend for a $15 registration fee, which will be used to support the NPC Staff Support Fund to assist Club staff who have been furloughed due to COVID-19. Register online. Panel participants are…
Type: News
Katrina: A Teachable Moment
Secretary Spellings talked about responses by the Department of Education and schools to the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Among the topics she addressed were maintaining the quality of education, providing public education to displaced students, efforts by school districts and universities to accommodate those affected by the disaster, and evaluating responses to the disaster by educational institutions. She also answered questions submitted by audience members.
Type: Media
Update-1: Club highlights ongoing struggle for press freedom
The National Press Club has always stood for press freedom, and the latest edition of Update-1 features a couple of journalists who have been honored by the Club in the past but are struggling for their freedom. Maria Ressa and Austin Tice were among the journalists remembered during events on World Press Freedom Day. Ressa, the founder of the digital news site Rappler, delivered a powerful statement about the need for press freedom, while Tice's 11-year old niece talked about some of the memories she has of her uncle, who has been held in Syria for more than eight years. Both Ressa and Tice…
Type: News
Last chance to enter Club's journalism contest
You have the weekend and Monday to enter your best work from 2020 in the National Press Club journalism contest. All the categories are listed below, but we are especially interested in stories about foreign news (the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence); breaking news; news photos; humor writing (the Angele Gingras Humor Award); and stories by young journalists (the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism). See if your best work fits better in the categories below. Visit the contest webpage for more details and to submit your entries. The deadline is…
Type: News
Headliners event focuses on rebuilding trust in news, Tuesday
Journalists believe that more facts get us closer to the truth, and that the way to make society stronger is by spotlighting what's wrong. Many Americans disagree. New research shows us how to adjust our mix of stories, reframe our coverage, and write headlines to reach people who don't fully embrace journalism values. Join us Tuesday, May 25, from 1 to 2 p.m. ET for a National Press Club Headliners virtual event to learn new ways to build trust with the communities your journalism is failing to reach. Register online for this one-hour program, jointly produced by the National Press Club…
Type: News