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NIGHT OUT FOR AUSTIN TICE - April 5 Update/Briefing
The National Press Club and it's Free Austin Tice Coalition partners will be joined by Marc and Debra Tice, Austin Tice’s parents, for a special press briefing on Friday, April 5 at 10:30 a.m. to discuss the progress of NIGHT OUT FOR AUSTIN TICE -- a campaign announced this past November to raise reward money for information leading to the safe return of Austin Tice, the award-winning journalist who was taken hostage in August of 2012 while covering the civil war in Syria.
Type: Media
The Kalb Report - A Conversation with Cokie Roberts
Having spent more than 40 years in broadcast journalism, having grown up in a family dedicated to public service, and having been named a “living legend” by the Library of Congress, Cokie Roberts is uniquely qualified to provide context and perspective on today’s hyper-partisan politics, the current media landscape, and their combined impact on the state of our democracy. On April 1, 2019, Roberts, who has been a mainstay of NPR since 1978 and ABC News since 1988, joined moderator Marvin Kalb at the National Press Club as part of the 25th anniversary season of the multi-award winning Kalb…
Type: Media
NPC Headliners Event: Holder & Schwarzenegger on Gerrymandering
Two of the nation's most prominent voices against gerrymandering shared the stage for the first time on March 26, 2019 immediately following oral arguments in two anti-gerrymandering cases at the U.S. Supreme Court. Eric H. Holder, Jr., the 82nd Attorney General, and Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger discussed why they believe redistricting reform is crucial to the future of our democracy at a National Press Club Headliners event.
Type: Media
NPC Newsmaker: Sen. Tammy Duckworth
As the nation approaches the 16th anniversary of the war in Iraq, combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) spoke at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on March 13, 2019 about what she believes our nation owes its service members and Veterans, and how she feels Congress is failing in its duty to provide our troops with the moral and legal backing they need and deserve to most effectively wage war.
Type: Media
NPC Book Rap: Jason Rezaian - "Prisoner"
The Washington Post's Jason Rezaian, recipient of the National Press Club’s 2015 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, shared his captivating memoir "Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison—Solitary Confinement, a Sham Trial, High-Stakes Diplomacy, and the Extraordinary Efforts It Took to Get Me Out," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on February 11, 2018.
Type: Media
NPC Forum: Using Sanctions to Protect Journalists
Lawmakers, former senior State Department officials and journalists gathered at the National Press Club on Feb. 11, 2019 for a discussion about the growing use of human rights sanctions to protect journalists around the world. Panelists at the event, sponsored by the National Press Club Journalism Institute and Club's Freedom of the Press Committee, included: Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J., House Foreign Affairs member and former assistant secretary of State for human rights, democracy and labor Rob Berschinski, senior vice president for policy at Human Rights First and former deputy assistant…
Type: Media
NPC Book Rap: Dorothy Butler Gilliam - "Trailblazer"
Legendary civil rights journalist and activist Dorothy Butler Gilliam shared her aptly-titled new memoir, "Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America," at a National Press Club Headliners book event on January 24, 2019.
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with CVS Health CEO Larry Merlo
Following CVS Health’s $69 billion acquisition of Aetna, CVS Health President and CEO Larry Merlo discussed how his company plans to address challenges in the health care system at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on January 14, 2019.
Type: Media
The Inauguration of NPC President Alison Kodjak
The inauguration of Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak. 112th President of the National Press Club on Jan. 12, 2019. Kodjak was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and during her inaugural address told a sold out ballroom audience that she wants to widen the Club’s role protecting freedom of the press to include gaining greater access to government information so people can know what their government is doing.
Type: Media
NPC Luncheon with Adm. Karl Schultz
As climate change continues to erode seasonal ice coverage in the Arctic, access through the Northwest Passage continues to expand, opening up greater possibilities for scientific exploration and international trade. With just two aging icebreaker vessels currently capable of navigating this expanding frontier (compared with Russia’s fleet of 41 icebreaking ships), the U.S. Coast Guard has made continued pleas to Congress to appropriate adequate funds to build a new heavy polar ship and expand America’s polar icebreaker fleet. On December 6, 2018, Admiral Karl L. Schultz, the 26th Commandant…
Type: Media