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NPC Board Member Alison Fitzgerald Wins Polk Award
Alison Fitzgerald, a newly elected member of the National Press Club Board of Governors, was part of a team selected this week to win the George Polk Award for Business Reporting. Fitzgerald and her colleagues from The Center for Public Integrity won for their three-part series “After the Meltdown." The judges said the series showed regulators and prosecutors failed to hold a single major player on Wall Street accountable for the reckless behavior that sparked the 2008 financial crisis, allowing them to live lavishly in its aftermath and permitting some to resume the sort of investment…
Type: News
Best breaking news broadcast stories of 2013 sought by the National Press Club Awards Program
Broadcast journalists: We are looking for the best broadcast news journalism done in 2013. So please take a look for your best work from last year and submit it to the National Press Club’s 2014 Journalism Contest. The competition offers broadcast journalists a chance to have their work recognized by the Club. The deadline to submit entries is April 1 and the contest is open to Press Club members and non-members. Offering broadcast news entries is free for NPC members and $50 for nonmembers. For the first time, entries may be submitted online or by the more traditional use of mail. For…
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This Week In National Press Club History
February 16, 2007: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first elected woman head of state in Africa, reviews the accomplishments of her first year in office at a National Press Club luncheon, and looks ahead to Liberia’s future. Several other women heads of state have at some time addressed the Club, including former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Foreign Minister and first woman Prime Minister of Israel, and most recently, Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, the first woman in that position, and former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.…
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Central Challenges & Long-Term Goals at FBI
Type: Media
Irish Breakfast for Kids of all ages, Saturday, Feb. 22
The Fourth Estate brunch menu will offer Irish breakfast treats in tribute to the Irish poet and Irish author featured at the National Press Club on Saturday, Feb. 22. Brunch is available following the book event featuring Irish writer Lara O'Brien, reading from her magical children's book, "Chesca and the Spirit of Grace," in the Conference Rooms at 11 a.m. At noon, Books & Brunch meets to discuss Irish poet Seamus Heaney. The menu includes, Bubble and Squeak, Irish oatmeal and a stack of green pancakes created to tantalize the younger set. Those young at heart may enjoy sophisticated…
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Information governance: legal profession's hottest topic
The legal profession's rapidly growing reliance on new forms of software and technology to answer a wide range of substantive legal questions and find responsive documents for litigation -- and whether mathematical algorithms will eliminate armies of young attorneys and raise fairness issues -- will be explored by a panel of e-discovery experts at a Newsmakers news conference on Monday, Feb. 24 at 2 p.m. in the Zenger Room. Moderating the panel will be Jason R. Baron, an internationally recognized expert in e-discovery, co-chair of a new Information Governance Initiative and former Director…
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Ticket deals to Harlem Globetrotters and Ringling Bros. Circus
National Press Club members can get a special discount to the Harlem Globetrotters and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Please use the promo codes listed below to take advantage of this special rate. If you have any questions please contact Vlady Entin at (202) 527-7979 for assistance, but please note that tickets are only available via the links below. Harlem Globetrotters Saturday, March 15 at 1:00 p.m. at the Verizon Center. Saturday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. at the Patriot Center. Sunday, March 16 at 2:00 p.m. at the Patriot Center. Click here for tickets http://www.…
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On The Kalb Report: Thomas L. Friedman on where freedom and security clash in the age of hyper connectivity
In a wide-ranging discussion of freedom vs. security with host Marvin Kalb Monday, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman came down on the side of freedom – for the most part. “Freedom,” Friedman said on "The Kalb Report," “is the ability, desire, aspiration to live in a context where I can realize my full potential as a human being.” That, he said, is what the initial Arab Spring revolutions were all about. Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, was in Cairo’s Tahrir Square during that uprising, and he said the Egyptian people were fed up with a corrupt, top-down hierarchy that…
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Iconic Vietnam War Pulitzer Photo now on Club’s wall
A signed copy of Associated Press photographer Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of children fleeing a napalm attack in South Vietnam on June 8, 1972 is now posted on the National Press Club’s walls. Ut presented the photo at the Jan. 25 inauguration of Myron Belkind as NPC president. The photo is signed by Ut and Kim Phuc, the young girl in the center of the photo. The photo shows her running naked on a road in Trang Bang after being severely burned by a South Vietnamese Air Force attack. After taking the photo, Ut took time to ensure she would receive medical assistance before…
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February 19 NPC Luncheon with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz
U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is wrestling with the challenges posed by unprecedented domestic supplies of energy and the demands in some quarters to push for more exports. He will address that issue and others at a National Press Club Luncheon on at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19 in the Ballroom. Moniz is closely involved in the Obama Administration’s Quadrennial Energy Review and he has called for that effort to include a greater emphasis on infrastructure, including transmission and distribution and fuel diversity. Click here for tickets. Remarks will begin at 1 p.m., followed by a…
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