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Winter storm closes Club
The National Press Club will close today because of the late-breaking snow storm. Roads are untreated and unsafe. Club managers and kitchen staff arrived early this morning but are being sent home for the day.
Type: News
48th Annual Virtual NPC Journalism Awards
The National Press Club will celebrate the best in broadcast and print stories from breaking news and Washington regional reporting to humor, political journalism and many other categories at the 48th Annual Virtual NPC Journalism Awards. This years event will be held virtually on Thursday, January 6th at 6:30 p.m. The full list of award winners can be found here.
Type: Event
Reminder: Club maintains mask mandate
National Press Club members are reminded that they must wear masks when they're at the Club except when eating or drinking. Here is the statement Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews released last month regarding D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's order on indoor mask requirements: “Effective immediately, the Club is moving to a policy of masks required for entry in response to the mayor’s order of Monday, Dec. 20. The Club has until recently been following a policy of masks recommended but not required. We understand the mayor wanted to make this change because of the sharp rise in positive cases in…
Type: News
Register for virtual general meeting, Jan. 14
Join fellow National Press Club members virtually for our first general membership meeting of the year on Friday, Jan.14, at 12 p.m. Please register online in advance. Please review the minutes from our October meeting, and send your approval or edits to Secretary Gillian Rich at [email protected]. Members are encouraged to send questions to Kate Helster at [email protected] in advance of the meeting, but will have an opportunity to ask questions during the meeting.
Type: News
Aruba's PM to appear at Newsmaker, Jan. 10
Aruba's Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes will appear at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event Monday, Jan. 10, at 2 p.m. Aruba Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes Wever-Croes became the first female prime minister of Aruba in 2017. She has made her name as an advocate for innovation and diversity, and has been leading the social democratic party, the People's Electoral Movement, since 2011. Wever-Croes also serves as the Minister of General Affairs, Integrity, Energy, Innovation, and Government Organization. This one-hour program, moderated by outgoing Club President Lisa…
Type: News
Books & Brunch to discuss "Deacon King Kong" on Jan. 15
Books & Brunch will discuss "Deacon King Kong" by prize-winning author James McBride at its next virtual meeting at noon on Saturday, Jan. 15. In this novel set in the 1960s, McBride depicts a Brooklyn neighborhood with a larger-than-life cast of characters that is upended when a bumbling drug shoots a young drug lord in broad daylight. The New York Times named it a Top 10 Book of 2020, calling it "a mystery story, a crime novel, an urban farce, a sociological portrait of late-1960s Brooklyn." To RSVP and receive a Zoom link, please email Fay Iudicello at [email protected] by…
Type: News
Club member Madsen compares ‘Trumpism’ with Nazism at virtual event
On the first anniversary of the Capitol insurrection, Jan. 6, National Press Club member, Wayne Madsen, discussed his latest book, The Rise of the Fourth Fascist Reich, the Era of Trumpism and the Far Right, at a virtual event sponsored by the Club's Member-Author Group. Madsen said he had two inspirations for writing the book. As a reporter, “I covered Capitol Hill for so long and I was nauseated when I saw what was going on last year.” The other reason was that his grandmother served in the underground in Denmark during the Nazi occupation and his mother in New Jersey told him about the…
Type: News