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PBS host Tavis Smiley to discuss his book on King assassination Sept. 25
Award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley will discuss his latest book, “Death of a King,” which chronicles the 12 months leading up to Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, at a National Press Club Book Rap on Thursday, Sept. 25. Smiley will sign copies of the book following the discussion. The event will be held from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in in the First Amendment Lounge. Register here to attend. Tickets are $5 for NPC members, $10 for the public. Club members should log in for the promo code. This event is a fundraiser for the National Press Club Journalism Institute. Books must be…
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Calling all Book Fair participants: Applications now accepted
Applications are now being accepted for the National Press Club's 37th Annual Book Fair and Authors' Night, in partnership with Politics & Prose, to be held on Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. The deadline for submission is Tuesday, Sept. 30. Applications and materials received after this period will not be reviewed. For more details, please click here.
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Wednesday, Sept. 3, correct date for Members' Photo Exhibit reception
The National Press Club's Photography Committee will host its 15th Annual Members’ Photo Exhibit reception at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3, in the First Amendment Lounge. The date listed in a mailing of September NPC meetings and events sent to Club members Thursday was incorrect. Previous Wire articles and other publicity about the event all carried the correct Sept. 3 date. Only the listing of September meetings and events sent Thursday was incorrect. For more information on the event please contact Darlene Shields, Photography Committee co-chair, at [email protected].
Type: News
Beef up immigration courts, judges urge at Newsmaker
Two federal judges, speaking in their capacity as leaders of the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ), called for more resources for immigration courts at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference Aug. 17. They also called for the creation of an independent immigration court under Article 1 of the U.S.constitution. Dana Leigh Marks, a federal administrative judge in San Francisco, spoke passionately about her concerns over immigration adjudication and recognized that the issues immigration judges are dealing with need to be addressed in order to create a more efficient…
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Expelled New York Times reporter tells Club Newsmaker he's 'eager' to return to Afghanistan
Matthew Rosenberg, the New York Times reporter expelled from Afghanistan Aug. 20 wants to return, he told a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference Aug. 27. "I am eager to go back there," Rosenberg said. "I want to go back there and keep reporting. It is a fascinating place." Rosenberg's ouster came one day after he had been questioned by officials in the Afghanistan attorney general's office about an Aug. 19 story he had written in the Times about a potential coup in Kabul. Rosenberg called it a "Plan B" option if the current turmoil over the recent presidential elections is not…
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Panel to examine return of infectious diseases at media briefing Sept. 4
The National Press Club Journalism Institute will co-host a media briefing on questions and trends relating to the alarming return of infectious diseases in the Club's First Amendment Lounge on Thursday, Sept. 4, at 9:30 a.m. The briefing, entitled "Vaccines at the Crossroads: Outbreaks on the Rise Across America," comes amid an upsurge in diseases that were largely eradicated a generation ago. Measles, for example, was declared eliminated in 2000, yet the CDC reports 593 confirmed cases in 2014 as of Aug. 15 -- the highest incidence in 20 years. In July, California’s public health…
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Fourth Estate Award winner Marvin Kalb begins "Legends of Broadcast News" series
Former television journalist Marvin Kalb, winner of the Club's prestigious Fourth Estate Award in 2006, will be the first guest at the Broadcast Committee's planned series of dinners featuring legends of broadcast news. He hosts the Kalb Report, which is co-sponsored by the Club. At the dinner, Kalb will discuss the current crisis in the Ukraine in the Winners Room of the Fourth Estate Restaurant on Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m. The dinner will occur as Kalb, a former CBS and NBC reporter, completes a book focusing on the importance of history, especially important to understanding the crisis…
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Problems in Washington, DC
The controversial mayor discusses the city's problems, which include an extremely high murder rate and serious drug problem.
Type: Media
Attention campaign-finance reporters: learn how to use Sunlight Foundation database, Sept. 3
The National Press Club Journalism Institute will teach campaign-finance reporters how to use the Sunlight Foundation’s Political Ad Sleuth database at a class in the Bloomberg Room on Wednesday, Sept. 3, from 9:30-11 a.m. Register here. The fee is $5 for Press Club members; $10 for the public. National Press Club members should log in to obtain the discount code. Journalists all know the frustration of trying to track the "dark-money" groups that have proliferated since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. But there is one place where nonprofits that don't register with the Federal…
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Why have college costs risen so much? Expert to explain why at Sept. 10 Newsmaker
Why have college and university costs continued to explode despite 50 years of ostensibly benevolent government intervention? Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and economics professor at Ohio University, will discuss the reasons at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference on Wednesday, Sept. 10. The event will be held in the Zenger Room at 10 a.m. Vedder's appearance comes amid skyrocketing growth in federal student aid. In 1964, such aid was a mere $231 million. By 1981, the federal government was spending $7 billion on loans alone, an…
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