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NPC Newsmaker to Focus on New Campaign Finance Case Before Supreme Court
With the U.S. Supreme Court about to hear arguments on another case that could allow donors to give millions of dollars more than they now can contribute to federal campaigns, two experts on campaign finance law will discuss the case of McCutcheon v. FEC and its impact on campaign finance regulations at a Club Newsmaker at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, in the First Amendment Lounge. Shaun McCutcheon is a Republican donor who is asking the High Court to allow him to contribute more than the $123,200 to candidates and parties he is now limited to under federal law. A decision overturning the limit…
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Upcoming National Press Club Luncheons
Sept. 26: New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter will address the issue of gun violence and murder in the inner cities Sept. 30: Education Secretary Arne Duncan will discuss this year's education priorities. This will be a press conference from 1-2 p.m. No lunch will be served, Oct. 18: George Takei, actor and gay rights activist will speak on LBGT issues. This event will be held in the Holeman Lounge. Members can only bring two guests. Nov. 5: Goldie Hawn, actress and founder, The Hawn Foundation. Members and their guests only Nov. 11: Walt Bettinger,…
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Recent Events in Palestine and Prospects for Peace
On the 100th day of the Palestinian uprising, Mr. Maksoud discusses the effect of the uprising on U.S. public opinion. The Arab league representative also criticizes the U.S. for closing PLO offices in Washington and New York.
Type: Media
Communicators Breakfast Today to Discuss Internet Advertising
A panel of communications experts plans to examine the growth of native advertising and its effect on paid content today at a Communicators Breakfast at the Club. The event begins with breakfast at 8 a.m. in the Fourth Estate Restaurant. The program will begin at 8:30 a.m. The event is Communications and Marketing Committee. Banners and pop-up ads have become the billboards of the Information Highway. But like their terrestrial counterparts, web users have just a passing interest in them. So publishers increasingly are offering native advertising, a form of paid content that’s considered less…
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National Press Club Questions Prosecution of Official Who Disclosed Bomb Plot
The National Press Club raised questions Tuesday about the Justice Department's prosecution of an ex-FBI agent who reportedly told the Associated Press last year about a foiled terrorist plot to bomb an airliner. Law enforcement officials told news organizations on Monday that they confirmed only by reviewing AP reporters' phone records earlier this year that the suspect, Donald Sachtleben, had contacted an AP reporter in 2012 about the Yemen-based plot. The collection of the reporters records, under a secret subpoena, had triggered outrage among news organizations. It led to a rewriting of…
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Press Club to Explore How Newspaper Unearthed Photographer's Double Life as FBI Informant
Ernest Withers was an iconic photographer of the civil rights movement who was granted close access to Martin Luther King Jr. and other movement leaders in order to capture their images for posterity. At the same time, it turns out, Withers was spying on King and his colleagues for the FBI. The NPC's Freedom of the Press and Young Members Committees are planning a panel discussion exploring how a mid-size city newspaper was able to dig up this extraordinary story. The event, called "Double Exposure," is designed to bring to life how the Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis used a precedent-…
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This Week In National Press Club History
Sept. 22, 2011: John Grisham, lawyer, politician, and author of legal thrillers that have sold over 250 million copies worldwide, including A Time To Kill, The Pelican Brief and The Firm, is presented the 2011 Harper Lee Award for Legal Fiction. The award is co-sponsored by the University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal, and celebrates the role of lawyers in society and the ideals represented by Atticus Finch, the hero of Lee’s beloved novel To Kill A Mockingbird. David Baldacci, lawyer and writer of mystery thrillers that have been translated into over 45 languages, received…
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Pulitzer Winners Feted With Reception and Discussion Tonight
The NPC's Professional Development Committee recognizes this year's Pulitzer Prize in journalism winners with a reception and panel discussion on Monday, Sept. 23 at 5:30 p.m. in the NPC's Zenger Room. The National Press Club reception with light hors d’oeuvres is scheduled to be followed by a panel discussion starting at 6:30 p.m. in the NPC's Conference Rooms featuring some of the winners talking about “How I got the Story” and other aspects of producing prize-worthy journalism in today’s reality of budget cuts, layoffs and competition from so many sources of information competing for the…
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Documentary on China's Cultural Revolution to be Screened at Club Sept. 25
"The Revolutionary," a documentary about the Chinese Cultural Revolution, will be shown at the Club beginning at 6:30 pm Sept. 25. Chairman Mao Zedong's call to "make revolution" was answered by tens of millions of Chinese and one American. The Revolutionary is a feature-length documentary film about the Maoist Era and Sidney Rittenberg, an American who played an unprecedented role for a foreigner in Chinese politics. In Mao's last stand to hold on to power and to his political legacy, Rittenberg's personal relationship with China's leaders brought him both prominence and a long stay in…
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EPA administrator unveils power plant emission curbs at National Press Club breakfast
Gina McCarthy, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in a breakfast speech at the National Press Club Sept. 20, released the agency’s much-anticipated proposed standards for limiting emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) in new power plants. A key step in President Barack Obama’s climate-action policy announced in June, the proposed standards will affect only power plants yet to be built, stressed McCarthy. But they are a prelude, she said, to regulations governing existing power plants that will be proposed in June of 2014. Existing facilities account for 40 percent of the United…
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