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Chimney Rock wine dinner almost here! Snag a ticket
The renowned Chimney Rock wine dinner is set for Tuesday, April 30, in the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Restaurant. Member tickets are still available. Chimney Rock is one of the world’s premier fine wine producers. The winery is located on the fabled Silverado Trail in Napa Valley’s renowned Stags Leap District. The menu includes char grilled Alaskan Halibut, roasted Spring Lamb and Asparagus Salad...and of course wine! Member tickets are $75/single; $105/couple. For non-members, $85 and $125. To secure the member discount, log onto the press club website before purchasing tickets. To…
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Did You Know? NPC members test trivia knowledge with Pub Quiz
Did you know that the National Press Club hosts a monthly trivia night? Test your knowledge at the next edition of Pub Quiz at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 25 in the NPC's Reliable Source's Truman Lounge. No need to reserve. Bring your own team or show up and join one. Round prizes include complimentary appetizers. The grand prize of the evening is $50 off your tab. Pub Quiz is open only to Club members and their guests. For more information about your membership benefits please email [email protected].
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Actor Belzer of `Law & Order' to discuss book on JFK assassination witness deaths
Actor Richard Belzer, also known as Detective John Munch on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, will discuss and sign copies of his new co-authored book “Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination.” The event is on May 6, 6:30 p.m., at the National Press Club's Ballroom. It is a fundraiser for the NPC Journalism Institute. Registration is required, please click here (http://www.press.org/events/belzer). Tickets are free for NPC members and $5.00 for non-members. The author will only sign copies purchased through the Club so no…
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Gore: Foreign Policy
Senator Gore's speech on national defense and foreign policy is made during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Type: Media
Get the most out of LinkedIn: NPC offers workshop for journalists on April 24
The National Press Club's Journalism Institute plans to host a workshop on how LinkedIn can be useful for journalists on April 24 at 9:30 a.m. in the NPC's Bloomberg Room. Registration is required at http://www.press.org/events/linkedin. The charge is $5 for NPC members, and $15 for non-members. Yumi Wilson, a journalism professor at San Francisco State University and community manager for LinkedIn for Journalists, which has doubled to nearly 28,000 members in the last six months, will hold a workshop on how professional journalists can get the most out of LinkedIn by using it in their…
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Gerald R. Ford journalism awards to feature Congressman Upton & CNN's Gergen
Congressman Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican, and David Gergen, senior political analyst for CNN, will be the featured speakers at the 26th annual Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation journalism awards luncheon, hosted by the National Press Club on Monday, June 3. The Ford Presidential Foundation will honor the winners of its annual awards for coverage of the presidency and national defense issues. Winners have yet to be named. President Ford, who had a long association with the National Press Club, established the journalism awards through his Foundation. Congressman Upton holds former…
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Club member James L. McKenna, who joined in 1962, dies
National Press Club member James L. McKenna, a resident of McLean, Virginia, died on April 10, 2013. He was 82 years old. McKenna, a Golden Owl, joined the Club in January 1962.
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`Price-managed' lanes cut traffic gridlocks, says Newsmaker urging test
A toll-road proponent urged Congress, at an April 22 National Press Club Newsmaker, to include in the next highway funding bill a pilot project allowing states to convert some traffic lanes to toll roads to alleviate congestion. Congress should approve a pilot allowing the top-20 urban areas with “severe congestion” to “take some percentage” of non-toll roads and test whether price-managed lanes would reduce gridlock, said Matthew Click, Southeast division director of tolls for HNTB Corp, a consulting firm based in Kansas City, Mo. Price-managed lanes is the Federal Highway Administration's…
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This Week in National Press Club History: Obama and Clooney discuss Darfur
April 27, 2006: Barack Obama, U.S. Senator from Illinois (2005-2008) and future President of the United States, participates in a panel discussion on human rights abuses in Darfur, Sudan, with actor/activist George Clooney and Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), attracting the largest attendance ever of journalists at a National Press Club event. April 27, 2012: Smithsonian Folkways releases Satchmo at the National Press Club-Red Beans and Rice-ly Yours, a Club-produced recording of Louis Armstrong’s concert at the inauguration of 1971 Club President Vernon Louviere. This was Satchmo’s last…
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National Press Club member McCarren wins regional Murrow award
National Press Club member Andrea McCarren, a reporter for WUSA-TV (Channel 9)Washington's CBS affiliate, recently won the Edward R. Murrow Award for hard news reporting for Region 12 - Large Market TV. McCarren's story, "Six Terrible Seconds: Desaleen James," was about James, the lone survivor of a fatal car crash involving underage drinking. Click here for more information about her story. Region 12 includes Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware. McCarren will now be one of a handful of reporters considered for the national Murrow Award in this category.
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