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Tom Toles to draw and play at May 1 Spring Hoot
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Tom Toles will demonstrate his drawing skills and then play with his journalist-laden band, Suspicious Package, at the Silver Owls' Spring Hoot on Friday, May 1. As a musician, Toles plays drums and sings lead and harmony. As a cartoonist for the Washington Post, Toles has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer in 1990, and the Herblock award in 2011, named for the legendary Washington Post cartoonist Herb Block. Toles has had seven collections of his cartoons published. In addition, he authored and illustrated a children's book, "My School is Worse Than…
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16th annual NPC Photo Exhibit is coming soon
The 16th Annual National Press Club Members’ Photography Exhibition is slated to run the month of September in the 13th floor lobby. Sponsored by the Club’s Photo Committee, the exhibit is open to all Club members, who may submit up to four of their finest images. Each photo may not exceed 11x14 and prints must be securely mounted and matted. Photographs are due in the Club’s Membership Office between Monday, Aug. 3, and Friday, Aug. 14. Complete exhibition rules will be published in coming weeks, but please, start shooting or prepping those exhibition images.
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NPC Broadcast Committee to feature Brian Lamb at Legends Dinner
Brian Lamb, a Club member, Fourth Estate Award winner and creator of C-SPAN, the Cable Satellite Public Affairs Network, will headline the Broadcast Committee's second Legends Dinner on Tuesday, May 12, in the Winners Room of the Fourth Estate restaurant. C-SPAN and the National Press Club have a special history together. Lamb hosted the first C-SPAN roundtable remote interview from a small room at the Club. Lamb's official bio on the website of Purdue University, where the communications school is named for him -- says he built radio crystal sets as a child. After graduating from Purdue, he…
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Magic show tonight at the Club
Tonight's the night. Five magicians from the Society of American Magicians Assembly 23 will perform family-friendly magic in the conference rooms starting at 7 p.m.. Another magician will do walk around magic in the Reliable Source for dinners who want to get a bite before the show. The show is free, but please let us know if you are coming (so we can set up enough chairs) by calling 202-662-7501. To reserve a table at the Reliable Source, call 202-662-7443 or go to the club’s website.
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NPC Journalism Institute to offer classes on turning numbers into stories
The NPC Journalism Institute is offering two classes in May on how spreadsheets and databases can turn numbers into stories and stories into prizewinners. The sessions will be taught by David Donald, data journalist in residence at American University. Previously, he was training director for Investigative Reports and Editors and data editor at The Center for Public Integrity. Spreadsheets can be much more than programs for doing your expense reports. Data skills can enhance your coverage of campaign money and help you document how tax dollars are spent. Data tools like pivot tables can…
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Changes in Europe
The Austrian leader discussed his county's economy, changes in Eastern Europe, and the role of European institutions in change. He also discussed Austria's application for membership in the European Community.
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North Korean defectors to tell their stories at April 27 Newsmaker
A delegation of North Korean defectors will begin the 12th Annual North Korea Freedom Week with a Newsmaker event on Monday, April 27, at 9 a.m. in the Murrow Room. Before testifying on Capitol Hill, meeting with State Department officials and visiting the U.N., the group of defectors – which includes former military and eyewitnesses to slave labor operations, political prison camps and similar activities – will share information, release photographs and discuss their ideas for bringing about change in North Korea. Like all Newsmaker events, this news conference is open to credentialed press…
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Freelancers tell tales of high danger and low pay at Club conference
Freelancers and groups supporting them told a Club audience Thursday of the dangers and lack of preparation in their international reporting, often at low pay. The morning-long conference, "Freelancers at Risk: Photojournalism and the Call for Global Safety Practices," was sponsored by the Club's Journalism Institute along with the Investigative Reporting Workshop and the Committee to Protect journalists. One of the guests was Diane Foley, whose son, freelance journalist James Foley, was captured while covering the Syria civil war and beheaded last August. The participants said little about…
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Video games are learning tools, according to a Club Newsmaker event
Highly sophisticated video games based on educational research, closely tied to curriculum and supported by federal funding are significantly changing the way millions of students learn, according to education experts who addressed a Club Newsmaker on April 16. Greg Toppo, national education eeporter for USA Today and author of a new book, “The Game Believes in You, How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter,” called these games “hard fun.” Toppo said he chose to devote his first book to this topic because these games combine academic rigor and experiential learning in a way that appeals to…
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Imprisoned former Maldives president to be subject of April 30 Newsmaker
Laila Ali, wife of imprisoned former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, will speak at a Newsmaker event on Thursday, April 30, at 10 a.m. in the Murrow Room, publicly releasing a filing with the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urging it to find that Nasheed is being held in violation of international law. Examining the case with Ali will be her international lawyers, Amal Clooney and Jared Genser. After many years as a dissident journalist, prisoner of conscience, and democracy activist, Nasheed became the first democratically elected president of the Maldives in 2008. His…
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