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Break out the business cards for members' only networking event, April 23
Did you know that the National Press Club features a members-only networking event? Please join us for the next edition of Meet the Press Club starting at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23, in the Games room located on the 14th floor. Space is limited, so please reserve your spot by sending an email to Sarah Driggs at [email protected]. Meet the Press Club is specifically designed as a forum for Club members to network and establish business contacts among fellow Club members. For more about your membership benefits please email [email protected].
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Dickson to explain ‘lovelorn,’ ‘granfalloon,’ ‘a ha,’ and other phrases coined by famous authors, April 23
Celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday with National Press Club member and lexicographer Paul Dickson as he discusses his latest book “Authorisms: Words Wrought by Writers” Wednesday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. William Shakespeare’s written vocabulary consisted of 17,245 words, including hundreds that were coined or popularized by him. Some of the words never went further than their appearance in his plays, but others, including bedazzled, hurry, critical, and anchovy, are essential parts of our standard vocabulary today. Dickson deftly sorts through neologisms by Chaucer (a ha), Jane Austen (base…
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NTSB chairman to speak at NPC breakfast on April 21
Deborah Hersman, outgoing chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, will give her farewell address at a National Press Club Speakers Breakfast. Hersman will speak on Monday, April 21. Hersman is stepping down during her third term as NTSB chairman to lead the National Safety Council. The safety board is helping probe the disappearance of a Malaysian Air plane. As chairman, Hersman has focused on distraction in drivers, pilots and other transportation operators and presided over the longest period without a crash in the history of U.S. commercial aviation. Breakfast will be served…
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For some, it's Tax Day, but for new NPC members it's Club orientation, April 15
Are you a new member of National Press Club? Want to learn more about what the Club has to offer you? You can find out at a choice of two New Member Orientation sessions Tuesday, April 15. To fit members' schedules, the Club's Membership Department is offering sessions at both breakfast and lunch. The breakfast orientation will begin at 8:30 a.m., the lunch session at noon. Both will be in the Reliable Source restaurant. Please RSVP with your choice of session to Recruitment Manager Allyson Cannon at [email protected] by Monday, April 14.
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Hear historian John McManus' gripping account of D-Day at May 5 book talk
Acclaimed historian John C. McManus will give a white-knuckle account of the 1st Infantry Division’s harrowing D-Day assault on the eastern sector of Omaha Beach in a reading from his new book, “The Dead and Those About to Die,” on May 5. The discussion and book signing will be held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the conference rooms. This is a ticketed event, and registration is required. To register, click here. This event is a fundraiser for the NPC Journalism Institute. Books must be purchased through the Club. No outside books or memorabilia permitted. All sales are final. This year marks…
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Foreign Policy Challenges
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NPC podcast features new radio show that connects U.S. to New Zealand
The latest edition of Update-1, the National Press Club's podcast, features National Press Club member and Washington, D.C.-based journalist Victoria Gaither, who talks about her new radio show with Stu Frith, the founder of Sea Breeze FM in Himatangi Beach, New Zealand. Club member Adam Konowe interviews Gaither on the doubts she had about the unconventional partnership and why the show has seen surprising popularity. The podcast also explores what the countries have in common and where they diverge(Hint: one of the ways can be found in between your toes during a walk on the beach). Update-…
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NPC Flix airs "We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks," April 9
Join fellow Club members and their guests in the Truman Lounge at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to watch “We Steal Secrets:The Story of WikiLeaks.” Check out the trailer here. The event is free and open to NPC Members and their guests. No registration is required. Appetizers, drinks and other great items from the Reliable Source menu are available for purchase while watching Academy Award®-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney’s gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller about Julian Assange and the creation of WikiLeaks, the controversial website that facilitated the largest security breach in U.S.…
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This Week in Press Club History: "Silent Cal" Coolidge has words for NPC
This Week In National Press Club History April 4, 1974: Bill Russell, legendary Boston Celtics center (1956-69) and Seattle SuperSonics head coach (1973-1977) speaks about his legendary career to a luncheon crowd. April 6, 2003: Michael Crichton, best-selling author, producer, director and screen writer, talks about his novel, "The Rising Sun," which raises doubts about the advisability of foreign direct investment in high-technology sections of American industry, particularly by the Japanese. April 8, 1926: President Calvin "Silent Cal" Coolidge, clad in a cutaway and striped trousers,…
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Grenada PM to launch sustainable development initiative at April 11 Newsmaker
Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith C. Mitchell will discuss the launch of an initiative on sustainable development, small island economies and the Caribbean’s new vision for a dynamic and green hemisphere at a Newsmakers news conference on Friday, April 11 at 2:15 p.m. in the Zenger Room. Mitchell, who earned a masters degree at Washington, DC’s Howard University and a doctorate in mathematics and statistics from American University, will be attending spring meetings at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, where he will speak about the opportunities for Grenada and other island nations…
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