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NPC's Get it Online series plans discussion of social TV on May 21 at 8:30 a.m.
The National Press Club's Get It Online series plans to discuss social TV on May 21 at 8:30 a.m. This event is free of charge for NPC members and $20 for non-members. Register here. Doors will open at 8:30 a.m. A continental breakfast and coffee will be served before the panel begins at 9 a.m. It should conclude by 10:30 a.m. In this age of dual screens, watching a Twitter feed during a live, broadcast event can be as important an event as the broadcast itself. From Oreo’s “You can still dunk in the dark” Super Bowl ad to real-time audience participation of American Idol, social channels are…
Type: News
E-Discovery raises concerns for small business, individuals
New legal discovery technology that allows litigants to quickly and successfully retrieve evidence from massive amounts of data may be difficult for small businesses and individuals to obtain, according to an expert panel that appeared at the National Press Club on April 15. Big businesses and wealthy individuals have access to the new system through law firms specializing in the software and in preemptive management plans that structure business computers to help clients if litigation occurs, according to the expert panel. Electronic communications, such as emails and Word documents are now…
Type: News
Kyrgyz diplomat prepares to outline how country will meet economic challenges
Kyrgyz First Deputy Prime Minister Djoomart Otorbaev plans to discuss his country’s economic development challenges and its quest for Western assistance at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference at noon on Friday, April 19 in the NPC's Zenger Room. Newsmakers are open to members and the working press. No reservation required. At the risk of increasing tensions with Moscow, the Kyrgyz Republic – more commonly known as Kyrgyzstan – is seeking help from the West to stabilize its economy in the wake of years of ethnic clashes, revolts, transitional governments and political party…
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Panel to explore 'The New International Media: Filling a Vacuum or Pushing Agenda?'
The National Press Club will host a panel discussion May 2 to take a close look at the growing clout of several new media organizations that are at least partly government owned. The discussion is sponsored by the Club's Press Freedom Committee and it will occur on the eve of World Press Freedom Day, a commemoration created in 1993 by the U.N. General Assembly to take stock of press freedom and strive to ensure media independence. The press in most western democracies has had to retrench in recent years, cutting staff and abandoning foreign (and domestic) bureaus. By contrast, Al Jazeera,…
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Iceland president sounds climate alarm demanding global attention, action at NPC Luncheon
Iceland President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson announced at a National Press Club Luncheon April 15 the creation of an international assembly named "Arctic Circle" to alert the world to glacial melting and other climate threats and what can be done about them. "The Arctic is the fastest-warming place in the world," Grímsson said, "and is playing an increasingly important role in globalization, economic development, energy exploration, environmental protection and international security." "The aim of the Arctic Circle is to strengthen the policymaking process by bringing together as many Arctic and…
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Panel to discuss untold story of American sex trafficking victims, April 22, 6 p.m.
The National Press Club will hold a panel discussion on the untold story of American sex trafficking victims on April 22 at 6 p.m. in the conference rooms. The event is free for members, $5 for general admission. This is a ticketed event. Click here to jump to the ticket form. Speakers include a former CIA operative who has rescued Americans trafficked abroad and a survivor of sex trafficking from Washington, D.C. Mary David will moderate the panel. David has been an anti-human trafficking advocate at the local, state, national, and international level. She is the former deputy chair of…
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Banking Regulation
The chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee discusses proposed financial legislation. Included is a bill to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act, which limits the involvement of banks in securities underwriting. The legislation addresses the falling share of mortgages handled by banks and savings and loans. A second measure is a bill to limit hostile takeovers of corporations.
Type: Media
Famous filmmaker plans to show eight film clips, discuss them on May 20 at Press Club
From the Vatican to Venezuela, from Berbers to buffalos, from gauchos to gold, the documentaries of Judith Dwan Hallet spread all over the map. A documentary filmmaker for more than 40 years, Dwan Hallet plans to discuss her career and her adventures making films around the world at the National Press Club on May 20 at 7 p.m. in the conference rooms. The event is free for club members and $5 for nonmembers. Please register here. Dwan Hallet plans to show clips from eight films, starting with "The Painted Truck," made in Afghanistan in 1971 before the ravages of war devastated the country.…
Type: News
Slovenian finance minister plans to address fears country will require bailout at Newsmaker
Slovenian Finance Minister Uros Cufer plans to address fears that his country will need a bailout at an National Press Club Newsmaker press conference on Friday, April 19 at 9 a.m. in the NPC's Lisagor Room. NPC Newsmakers are open to members and the working press. No reservation required. Fears are growing that Slovenia, which joined the Eurozone in 2009, will be the next country to require a bailout. Its economy is in the depths of its second recession in four years and is not forecast to return to growth until 2014. Its gross domestic product forecast was also recently sharply cut. Cufer…
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This Week in National Press Club History: Baldwin appears subdued during 2012 Luncheon
This Week In National Press Club History April 16, 2012: Alec Baldwin, the outspoken stage and screen actor, and activist for Americans for the Arts, in an unexpectedly subdued appearance at a Press Club Luncheon, says that “the arts are beyond essential” and that the United States should look to Europe for examples of far greater government support of the arts. The Club's Ballroom has been the stage for many other like-minded advocates for the arts. Opera star Beverly Sills in 1996 declared that “the government will sooner bail out a savings and loan bank disaster than to think that art…
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