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Learn to juice up your ledes and nut grafs at Journalism Institute writing workshop on ledes and nut grafs, April 29
Learn to captivate readers from the first sentence in this hands-on writing workshop presented by the National Press Club Journalism Institute’s executive director Julie Moos. Every story competes for attention and must earn its readers by making a clear promise to deliver relevant information. Headlines may hook us, but ledes draw us in, and nut grafs keep us. As journalism changes, this is constant: Readers must know what’s at stake in a story and why it matters to them (or should). This hour-long, hands-on workshop for reporters and editors will demonstrate how to make those stakes clear…
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Tickets cost $25 for Club members and one guest, and $45 for non-members. Club members must be signed in to use the discount code. Buy tickets online. Drescher was elected president of SAG-AFTRA in September 2021. She was twice nominated for an Emmy and for a Golden Globe for her portrayal as Fran Fine on CBS’s hit series, "The Nanny." A 21-year cancer survivor, Drescher founded the Cancer Schmancer Movement, which is dedicated to educating, motivating, and activating patients into medical consumers by becoming better partners with their physicians and connecting lifestyle with disease.…
Last chance for tickets to luncheon featuring 'Nanny' star and union leader Fran Drescher, April 25
Actress Fran Drescher, president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, plans to speak on the intersection of labor, sustainability, and health at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Monday, April 25. Drescher is best known as the star of the television sitcom, "The Nanny."
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The investments in the future will transform the Air Force, he said. He sees “hard choices” ahead because the 20 percent requested increase in research and development funding is only the down payment on what is needed. He said he works with congressional delegations and wishes to communicate a sense of urgency to the Congress. “Congress…controls the budget and the budget controls what we can do," he said. In addition to the basic challenge posed by China, he acknowledged a Russian threat, but noted that the $770 billion total U.S. military budget is 50 percent of the Russian economy, but…
“Our strategic deterrence is in pretty good shape," Kendall said of the current force. “Where I’m most concerned is our conventional deterrence, our ability to project power." The average age of an Air Force plane is 30 years old, which needs to be reduced, he said. The Department’s budget requests 33 F-35s and 24 F-15EXs. Kendall called the F-35 “the cornerstone of the Air Force. Club President Jen Judson, who moderated the session, turned the conversation to human resource issues in the Air Force.
She noted that 11 percent of white members of the Air Force are officers, but only 6 percent of African Americans are. Furthermore, of the 14,000 pilots in the Air Force, fewer than 300 are African Americans. Kendall said, “We’re trying to find root causes here, but we’re also doing outreach.” She cited a report of 245 cadets at the Air Force Academy accused of cheating. The Secretary noted that some people from the current culture have a different value system from that of 50 years ago. The Air Force works with people, trying to change their attitudes rather than immediately dismissing them…