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Former White House CTO to discuss new book on entrepreneurial technology, July 22
Aneesh Chopra, formerly the White House's first chief technology officer, will discuss the entrepreneurial opportunities technology offers government to address challenges in public health, energy and education through his new book, "Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government." The event will be held on July 22 at 6 p.m. in the National Press Club's Holeman Lounge. This is a ticketed event and registration is required. Chopra, in his book, asserts that the federal government has not kept pace with the private sector's technological advances over the past 20 years. At the…
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This Week In National Press Club History
July 17, 2003: Former President Gerald R. Ford makes his fifteenth and last appearance at the Club for his foundation’s annual journalism awards luncheon, given for coverage of the presidency and defense issues. Columnist Hugh Sidey describes Ford as the only president he knew who genuinely liked reporters. July 19, 1962: Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr become the first African-American to speak at a National Press Club luncheon. He discusses non-violent resistance and freedom, and receives the Nobel Peace Prize two years later. July 19, 1985: Mementos reflecting journalistic…
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Did you know you can support the NPC Journalism Institute by simply ordering through Amazon?
Did you know that you can help support the NPC Journalism Institute by simply ordering through Amazon? AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service. Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to National Press Club Journalism Institute whenever you shop on AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support the NPC Journalism Institute every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as…
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Interpreting smoke signals from the marijuana skirmish line
The legalization of medical and recreational marijuana and the public and social policy quandary it poses will be explored at a Newsmakers news conference on Thursday, July 24 at 10 a.m. in the National Press Club's Murrow Room. The legalization of pot is a fast-moving social experiment – as well as a new economic driver – that has taken legislators by storm as they try to sort out the right response to the will of the people about a controversial medicine and recreational intoxicant. And they’re hardly the only ones thrown off balance. It has pitted members of the medical community against…
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Eugenio, two-act drama by NPC's Gallo to play at Greenbelt Arts Center
National Press Club member Anthony Gallo's play, "Eugenio will be presented by the Greenbelt Arts Center over the next two weekends. Seventy years ago, American forces liberated Rome from Nazi occupation. This fact-based, two-act drama deals with that tragic period in Italy during the Holocaust when fifteen hundred Jews were sent to their deaths at Auschwitz. The drama touches on the role of the Church and the Holocaust, and examines forgiveness amidst three conversions. Rome's aloof and scholarly Chief Rabbi Israel Zolli loses faith following the apparent slaughter of his Polish family. He…
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July 23rd event to highlight drones and photojournalism
Chuck Tobin, a former journalist who now heads the national media practice team at the Washington law firm of Holland & Knight, will speak at a special event on drones and photojournalism at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, July 23 at the National Press Club. Tobin is leading an effort to enact regulations for this innovative and controversial type of aerial journalism and will explain the legal turbulence that surrounds it. He will be joined by Matt Waite, founder and director of the Drone Journalism Lab in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska. Waite will…
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Did you know members get the best seats in the house?
Did you know that the Club reserves the two front tables for members and their guests to every speaker’s luncheon? We want to provide our members with the opportunity to be up close to all the marquee speakers who visit the Club. The seats at these tables are on a first come, first serve basis, so be sure you arrive early. Luncheon tickets cost $22 for National Press Club members. Each member is allowed one guest ticket at the member price. If you would like to attend the VIP reception then please send an email to [email protected] at least 48 hours prior to the luncheon and include the…
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A Turning Point in Central America
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Gym to close early tonight, but there's always Taco Night!
The Fitness Center will close early on Friday, July 11th, at 7 p.m., for a thorough cleaning of the facility.
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Scientists to forecast California drought impacts through 2016 at July 15 Newsmaker
University of California scientists will update and expand their forecast of the California drought’s economic impacts on agriculture at a Newsmakers news conference at 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 15, in the club’s Zenger Room. California’s Food and Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross will also speak at the event. The event will be webcast live at www.visualwebcaster.com/CAdrought. New data shows where the drought is hitting California growers hardest and how the state’s system of groundwater pumping threatens further losses in farm production, income and jobs in the nation’s richest agricultural…
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