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Current Update-1: Interview with NPC Press Freedom Team chair on World Press Freedom Day
The current episode of the National Press Club's podcast, Update-1, highlights the cases of three journalists struggling for freedom -- Austin Tice, Maria Ressa and Emilio Gutierrez-Soto -- who are the focus of the Club's virtual event in observance of World Press Freedom Day today. John Donnelly In the podcast, the Club's Press Freedom Team chair John Donnelly speaks withBroadcast/Podcast Team co-vice chair Adam Konowe about today's event and the plight of these and other journalists. He also addresses the state of press freedom more broadly, including specific incidents at home and…
Type: News
Searching for a job or a better one? Learn how to set yourself apart at workshop next week
Making an impression on a potential employer starts long before an email or phone call. By then, your digital footprint has done the talking. Don’t let it send you walking. To avoid that – and to help you create and maintain the professional identity you want to showcase to sources, employers, and publishers, the National Press Club Journalism Institute is conducting a weeklong series of virtual hands-on workshops “Career Connection: Defining Your Digital footprint Monday, May 10, to Friday, May 14. Register here for one of the sessions or all five days, which are available at no cost.…
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NPC to mark World Press Freedom Day on May 3
On Monday, May 3, The National Press Club will host a virtual event for World Press Freedom Day highlighting the cases of three journalists in need: Austin Tice, Maria Ressa and Emilio Gutierrez-Soto, all past recipients of the Club’s John Aubuchon Award for press freedom. In this episode of Update-1, Press Freedom Team chair John Donnelly speaks to Broadcast/Podcast Team co-vice chair Adam Konowe about the upcoming event and the plight of these and other journalists. He also addresses the state of press freedom more broadly, including specific incidents at home and abroad that demonstrate…
Type: Media
NPC hosts cancer survivor, NPC member at Headliners Book Rap to discuss ‘Outpedaling the Big C’, May 19
Celebrating both National Bike Month and National Melanoma Awareness Month, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elizabeth McGowan will discuss her memoir "Outpedaling the Big C: My Healing Cycle Across America" at a National Press Club Virtual Headliners Book Rap on Wednesday, May 19, at 2 p.m. Access the event or download a calendar reminder here. "Outpedaling the Big C" chronicles a 90-day solo bike ride from Oregon to Virginia McGowan undertook to celebrate her recovery from melanoma and highlights other cancer survivors who work to promote cancer research. The memoir also explores her…
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Astronaut Michael Collins, dead at 90, was Kalb Report guest at Club in 2019; watch the program
Astronaut Michael Collins, an American hero died Wednesday at age 90, appeared at the National Press Club on April 15, 2019, in advance of the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing in which he piloted the command module while his crewmates Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface. . For those in the Club Ballroom during Collins's appearance at the Club, it was an unforgettable experience. For Collins it was a rare, long form interview with one of the legends of broadcasting – Marvin Kalb, during a taping of The Kalb Report. You can view the program here.…
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U.S.-Canada Trade Relations
Ambassador Wilkins introduced himself to Canadian journalists and thanked Canada for their support in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He spoke to the journalists about U.S.-Canada trade relations. He emphasized that the majority of relations were amicable and that negotiating areas of difference such as softwood lumber was more productive than litigating those differences. Following his remarks, Ambassador Wilkins responded to questions and comments from reporters.
Type: Media
Three 'founding mothers' describe how women built NPR
As Linda Wertheimer rode the bus to work ahead of National Public Radio’s first broadcast in 1971, mobs of antiwar protesters tried to throw tear gas canisters through the windows. Braving the nauseating smoke, she finally made it to the fledgling station, where a group of talented and under-paid young women were among the first to dive into the grand experiment of public radio. “I got to work, I got upstairs where I was supposed to be, and started helping to put the program together,” Wertheimer said in reflecting on the experience at a National Press Club virtual Book and Author webcast…
Type: News
Apollo-11 Astronaut Michael Collins rare long-form interview with Marvin Kalb April 2019
WASHINGTON, April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On April,15 2019 Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins came to the National Press Club in advance of the 50th Anniversary of that historic lunar mission to speak about his experience in 1969 and to talk about the importance of the press in our democratic society. For those in the Press Club Ballroom it was an unforgettable experience. For Collins it was a rare, long form interview with one of the legends of broadcasting – Marvin Kalb. For journalists working on stories related to Collins, who passed away today at age 90, The Kalb Report program in its…
Type: News
DNC Chair Jaime Harrison pledges major investment in midterms, voter protection
Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison pledged a massive investment to elect Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections and protect the right to vote during a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker on Wednesday. Harrison said the DNC will spend $20 million in the next year alone on mid-term campaigns — the committee’s largest infusion of money into a mid-term election cycle. He said it means campaigns will have more time to engage with voters on the ground, provide state parties with more resources, lay the groundwork for 2024 and beyond and take the electoral fight to Republicans. “…
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The Kalb Report - Astronaut Michael Collins
In 1865, Jules Verne wrote the science fiction novel “From the Earth to the Moon and a Trip Around it.” Nearly 105 years later, Michael Collins “lived” what Jules Verne could only imagine. In July of 1969, against the backdrop of the raging war in Vietnam and the social upheaval in American society, the eyes of the world turned skyward as three American astronauts roared their way toward history. In what has been described as the greatest technological achievement of the 20th century, Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin…
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