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Update-1: NPC member Susan Page discusses significance of Club's all-female leadership team
For the first time in National Press Club history, its leadership team is all-female, with President Lisa Nicole Matthews, Vice President Jen Judson, Secretary Gillian Rich, Treasurer Eileen O'Reilly and Membership Secretary Emily Wilkins at the helm. Susan Page is the Washington bureau chief for USA Today. In the latest episode of Update-1, the Club's podcast, Club Broadcast/Podcast Team member Shannon Fisher speaks with USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page, a longtime Club member who has served as president of the White House Correspondents Association and the Gridiron Club.…
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Club member helps Myanmar rewrite constitution, move toward press freedom
“Three Piglets Born with Physical Deformity,” reads a headline in the government-owned New Light of Myanmar newspaper. The English-language newspaper’s motto is “The most reliable newspaper around you,’” said former Pulitzer Prize winning White House reporter and National Press Club member Jim McQueeny. “It’s an ironic play on words because it’s pretty much in the country, the only paper around you,” he added. As Myanmar undertakes political reforms, it has invited outside experts, including McQueeny, to help it amend its constitution and guide it along the path to democratic elections in…
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Experts say Egyptian democracy possible but unlikely in current political climate
A panel of experts in Middle East policy said democracy is still possible, but unlikely in the current political climage, at a National Press Club's Newsmakers conference on Sept. 27. Panelists said the military leadership continues to lead the country down a path toward instability, violence and economic upheaval. Michelle Dunne of the Atlantic Council believes the US missed opportunities to promote participatory democracy in the country. According to her, the US has always stayed close to whomever is in power, whether it be Mubarak, the military, the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi, or back to…
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Sheinin presents RGIII book
Dave Sheinin, sports reporter for The Washington Post, presented his book on Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, "RGIII, The Promise," at the National Press Club Aug. 21. The book project began as a biography of a talented, intelligent man who is both an academic and sports achiever with a magnetic personality, but the story “changed directions in a big way,” said the author, when RGIII suffered a knee injury while playing at the end of last football season. The book is many other things, though “...also about the culture of violence in football and where Robert fit into that.” “The knee…
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Club now free of long-term debt
The National Press Club finished paying off its long-term debt in July, marking the first time the Club is operating without such obligations since 2004. The absence of debt payments, which over the last three years averaged about $45,000 per month and $540,000 per year, means the Club will be able to direct more resources toward the Board of Governors' mandate to build reserves, as well as to meet other needs. ``We have strengthened our bottom line, used cash flows to retire debt and now have more of the flexibility we need to navigate a difficult financial climate,'' Club President Angela…
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Tony Horton P90X boot camp style work-out set for Sept. 5
Tony Horton, celebrity trainer known for creating the P90X® Extreme Home Fitness System, will once again lead an Washington, D.C. audience in a workout session at the National Press Club on Thursday, Sept. 5. The event is part of a week of activities leading up to the 16th annual National Press Club BEAT THE DEADLINE 5K for which Horton will serve as honorary race marshal on Saturday, Sept 7. Tony will lead a pre-race warm-up before the race at 7:15 a.m. and the race will begin at 7:30 a.m. All proceeds from the workout and the 5K will go to the scholarship and educational efforts of the…
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Craft beer dinner on tap at Fourth Estate restaurant, Sept. 12
Reserve now to experience the best of California’s craft beer paired with a five-course dinner Thursday, Sept. 12, at the Fourth Estate restaurant. The menu matches six micro-brews from the North Coast Brewing Company, founded in California in 1988, with gourmet creations, including a seafood ceviche, a duck breast with plum sauce and a mocha crème brulee. A full menu is listed below.Reservations are essential. To reserve, click here. The Fourth Estate beer dinner kicks off the D.C.- based Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz’s 2013 International Jazz Saxophone Competition for Young Musicians,…
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PBS correspondent Suarez to present screening of 'Latino Americans' and sign books Sept. 11
Ray Suarez, PBS Newshour correspondent, will present segments of a forthcoming PBS series on Latino Americans and sign a companion book Wednesday, Sept. 11, at 6 p.m. The event, co-sponsored by the Events and and Book and Author Committees, opens Hispanic Heritage Month. A reception and book signing of "Latino Americans: The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped A Nation" will follow the screening. National Press Club member, Rudy Arredondo will perform Mexican-American and Latino music during the reception. The three-part, six-hour documentary is narrated by Benjamin Bratt and premieres on PBS on…
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Pols v. press spelling bee set
One hundred years ago, the National Press Club organized a spelling bee, pitting members of Congress against Washington reporters. In 1913, President Wilson attended, a member of his Cabinet moderated and an Ohio congressman won. On Sept. 18, 2013, the Press Club is reprising the "Best Speller in the United States" competition, to celebrate Washington, D.C., history, promote education and raise money for the Club's non-profit Journalism Institute. Merriam-Webster will provide the words and the pronouncer. Washington satirist Mark Russell will make a special appearance. Politician spellers…
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This week In National Press Club history
August 26, 1963: Two days before the March On Washington for Jobs and Freedom, A. Philip Randolph, chief march organizer and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, briefs reporters on the march’s goals at a National Press Club luncheon. The current display in the Club lobby honors the many civil rights leaders who have appeared at the Club since 1962, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the Club just a week after his release from jail in Albany, Georgia. They include Ralph Abernathy, King’s successor as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, nine weeks…
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