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Tickets Available for September 13 Fourth Estate Gala Honoring Charlie Rose
Charlie Rose will be honored at the 2014 National Press Club Fourth Estate Award Gala on Sept. 13. Buy your tickets now! Charlie Rose, acclaimed broadcast journalist and interviewer, will accept the National Press Club’s most-honored prize, the Fourth Estate Award, at a gala dinner in the Club’s historic Ballroom. Rose is the 42nd recipient of the award, recognizing his career as a journalist who has made significant contributions to the field as one of the most noted interviewers of his era. The dinner is a fundraiser for the National Press Club Journalism Institute, the Club's non-profit…
Type: News
Marijuana legalization: Seen as Showdown Between Good Intentions and Misdirections
Legalization of marijuana is an issue that has focused the attention of proponents on the failure of the war on drugs, while opponents say that is a misdirection to hide how legalization is really about the rise of a massive new industry being modeled after one of the most destructive legal drugs used by Americans today -- alcohol. That was the topic of a spirited discussion today at a Newsmaker press conference, “Interpreting smoke signals from the marijuana skirmish line,” held at the National Press Club. Presenter Bill Piper, the director of the Drug Policy Alliance’s office of national…
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Drone journalism raises legal, safety, ethical issues
Matt Waite, University of Nebraska journalism professor, and attorney Chuck Tobin described at a July 23 National Press Club event the issues that accompany the advantages of using small drone aircraft for journalism. "Drone journalism is an evolving area," Tobin said, because it involves so many legal, safety and ethical issues. He explained the legal uncertainties that have arisen because the Federal Aviation Administration has not completed the process of creating and implementing regulations for drones, also known as UAVs -- unpiloted aerial vehicles. In the absence of enforceable drone…
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Member Johnstone's fictional reporter uncovers secrets in fifth novel
Bill Johnstone, National Press Club member, has launched his fifth novel, Pointed Inwards, another in the series featuring fictional D.C.-based investigative journalist Mike McCabe. The discovery of the body of a German war hero in a desolate wooded section of Rock Creek Park in Washington and the ghoulish portrait of a face on the Internet are the catalysts which trigger what Bill calls "this thrilling tale." Journalist McCabe is drawn into the investigation which uncovers incidents of the Second World War, long kept secret by U.S. authorities and their modern security agencies determined…
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Obama’s First CTO Pushes Using Government Data to Solve Problems
The weather industry is a $5 billion undertaking but “the source data is all the same,” Aneesh Chopra, former and first chief technology officer for the Obama administration, told a National Press Club audience July 22. The source data that is commercialized and used in a variety of ways, from news to websites to apps, comes from the government. The use of weather data is just one example that Chopra related from his book, Innovative State. While he was the nation’s first CTO, the United States has had a “pioneering government” since its founding, Chopra said. The very idea of a republic was…
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CDC Head: Preventing Spread of Infection in Hospitals Requires Focused Hospital Management
What do the infectious disease MERS, ebola, measles, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, c. dif and CRE have in common? It is the kind of question that can only come from the director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Press Club luncheon speaker Dr. Tom Frieden. After the perplexed audience failed, he provided the answer: they are all spread in hospitals. He then gave the example of Peggy Lilis, who died of sepsis at 56 after receiving a routine root canal. Her son Christian Lillis was in the audience, and was described by Frieden as “an advocate for…
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Politicians are Buying your Cookie Crumbs to Target You
Jordan Lieberman, president of CampaignGrid, which sells targeted online political campaign ads, explained how the ads are targeted and sold. He made his presentaton at a Campaign Boot Camp session at the National Press Club July 22. He described the process that matches information from voter lists with information from cookies -- data placed on users' digital devices by websites they have visited. Although the cookies reside on users' devices, they are owned by the websites, which can sell or rent them, he said. Individual identifying information is removed before the cookies are sold or…
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Exhibit in NPC Lobby Honors AP Photographer Anja Niedringhaus
“Camera in hand, photographer Anja Niedringhaus faced down some of the world's greatest dangers with compassion, talent and courage. “Working in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan, she showed the world the carnage and damage that war brings to all caught up in it -- especially civilians. She often trained her camera on children caught between the front lines, yet who still found a place to play. She singled out the humanity of individual soldiers amid their armies as they confronted death, injuries and attacks. “Shot to death by an Afghan policeman in Afghanistan on April 4, 2014, Niedringhaus…
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New Club Podcast Focuses on Airline Industry News
From the development of new aircraft to the recent tragedies of Malaysian Airlines flights MH370 and MH17, commercial air travel continues be prominent in today’s news. In the latest edition of the National Press Club's podcast series, Update-1, broadcast committee member Adam Konowe interviews Edward Russell, an air transport reporter for Flightglobal, which provides news and statistics to the aviation industry. Topics include the financial health of the airline industry, ticket and fee pricing, news from the recent biennial Farnborough International Air Show, as well as MH370 and MH17.…
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