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Press Club Rewind - 4.30.2012
Press Club Rewind is a weekly video review of events at the National Press Club. In this week's edition: one of Louis Armstrong's final recordings is finally released to the public; an archaeologist reveals how an Egyptian mummy can inform research on cancer; Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar outlines the White House's plan for energy independence; Pultizer Prize winner Dana Priest chastises the Obama administration for silencing critics; a new survey reveals teenage girls are much more likely to drive while distracted; and the NPC Silver Owls gather for their Spring Hoot.
Type: Media
Press Club Rewind - 4.23.2012
Press Club Rewind is a weekly video review of events at the National Press Club. In this week's edition: Actor-activist Alec Baldwin calls for more federal arts funding and praises D.C.; Bob Deans chastises Republicans for "eviscerating" the environmental protections they once championed; MADD reveals that a quarter of teen drinkers get alcohol from parents or other family member; and Sesame Workshop teams up with the Department of Defense to help veterans overcome PTSD.
Type: Media
Press Club Rewind - 4.16.2012
Press Club Rewind is a weekly video review of events at the National Press Club. In this week's edition: MLBPA chief Michael Weiner praises the quality of players - and of play - in Major League Baseball; New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg condemns "shoot first" laws; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Josh Meyer recounts the FBI's pursuit of terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed; and rock & roll photographer Tom Gundelfinger O'Neal's work goes on display at The National Press Club.
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with Alec Baldwin
Actor-activist Alec Baldwin, famously candid and notoriously outspoken, was relatively serious and subdued at his National Press Club luncheon appearance April 16, 2012, as he discussed his own cultural growth and stressed the importance of more federal funding for the an arts — even in the current struggling economy.
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with Michael Weiner
The historic labor agreement signed in late 2011 by Major League Baseball and its union, the Major League Baseball Players Association, is a model for collective bargaining during a time of economic stress, MLBPA Executive Director Michael Weiner said at a National Press Club luncheon April 11, 2012.
Type: Media
Press Club Rewind - 4.9.2012
Press Club Rewind is a weekly video review of events at the National Press Club. In this week's edition: Deepak Chopra calls blaming stress on technology "a copout"; Jim Lehrer argues that the flood of information created by the internet requires curation; foreign policy experts say nuclear terrorism is the number one threat in the world; and panelists on "Politics Straight Up" predict an unorthodox running mate for Mitt Romney.
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with Douglas Shulman
IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman spoke at a National Press Club Luncheon event on April 5, 2012, urging lawmakers to address a series of tax cuts that have either expired or are expiring in order to sidestep what some D.C. insiders call "Taxmageddon."
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with Deepak Chopra
The most fundamental fact of existence is not the universe nor even space, time or gravity, but that we are of aware of the universe, Deepak Chopra, author or co-author of over 60 books on spirituality and mind-body connections, told a National Press Club luncheon audience April 4, 2012.
Type: Media
Press Club Rewind - 4.2.2012
Press Club Rewind is a weekly video review of events at the National Press Club. In this week's edition: the President of Hampton University calls on black colleges and churches to help guide youth away from violence; members of a trade reform panel decry the decline in U.S. manufacturing; a Quinnipiac poll shows Obama ahead in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania; Republican lawmakers denounce Pakistan's role in supplying the Taliban; and Rosie Rios launches the Treasury's "Ready. Save. Grow." program.
Type: Media
The Kalb Report - Walter Isaacson
What do Benjamin Franklin, Steve Jobs, and Albert Einstein have in common? Each man possessed a unique form of genius and dared to see the world in a different light. They also had their lives immortalized and analyzed by journalist and author Walter Isaacson. On The Kalb Report, legendary journalist Marvin Kalb sits down with the biographer of some of the brightest minds in history to explore the traits of leadership and how they can be applied to journalism in the digital age.
Type: Media