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NPC Headliners Book Event: Eric Holder and Sam Koppelman, "Our Unfinished March"
Former Attorney General Eric Holder and New York Times bestselling author Sam Koppelman will discuss their new book, “Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote,” at a Headliners Book Event on May 12 at 2 p.m. In the book, Holder, chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, and Koppelman describe three dramatic fights for the right to vote, first by white men, then by white women, and finally by African Americans, and the ways the right to vote has lost ground since. The book ends with a plan for reversing voter suppression, and transforming…
Type: Event
Why Media Literacy Is A Key Skill For Students To Learn
The group Media Literacy Now works to ensure that students learn the literacy skills they'll need to function as productive adults. The efforts of MLN in several states could impact more than 10 million children. In this edition of Update-1, Broadcast Podcast Committee member Gemma Puglisi interviews former journalist Erin McNeill, the founder of Media Literacy Now, about what media literacy is, why it's so important in the 21st century and how the organization came to be. McNeil also explains why media literacy is considered a key communication skill by business leaders and why it's…
Type: Media
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The Inauguration of Jen Judson - 115th President of the National Press Club
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On Friday evening May 6, 2022, one of the great traditions in Press Club culture will take place as hundreds from the journalism and educational communities join to celebrate the Inauguration of the 115th President of the National Press Club, Jen Judson. Judson has been covering defense news in Washington since 2012. After working at Politico and Inside Defense, she has been working at Defense News for more than a decade, reporting on the complicated bureaucracy of the Pentagon and Capitol Hill for policy-makers and readers in the defense industry. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Judson…
Type: Event
Fauci says ‘control’ phase of pandemic underway, but COVID-19 will not disappear
Club President Jen Judson shares a laugh with Anthony Fauci during virtual Newsmaker. Photo: Alan Kotok Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, said during a virtual National Press Club Newsmaker on Friday, April 29, that the United States is now in the “control” phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, but eradication of the disease is “almost impossible.” He said this phase means that infections are present, but society is not disrupted by thousands of infections and deaths and the hospital…
Type: News
Author Hayden describes discovery of massive refugee camps in Libya
Sally Hayden, Africa correspondent for The Irish Times and author of "My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route," told a Headliners Book Event April 29 how an anonymous Facebook message led to the book. The message launched her down a path to expose mass atrocities in detention centers in Libya, ignored by governments, out of sight of most people and worsening by the day, she said. Sally Hayden is the author of "My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route" and Africa correspondent for The Irish Times. The…
Type: News
In inaugural address, Judson pledges work on public trust, press freedom
Jen Judson, the 115th President of the National Press Club, pledged at her inauguration ceremony Friday night to work to restore public trust in the media and advocate for press freedom around the world. Judson, the land warfare reporter at Defense News, said in her inaugural address that after four years of attacks on the press from former President Donald Trump, the growth of fake news and disinformation campaigns and the plunging approval ratings of the press, restoring that trust is crucial. "It's no wonder we have our work cut out for us to regain public trust, but we have to do it,”…
Type: News
TV broadcast veteran says quantity is replacing quality in newsrooms
Sam Ford (top), D.C. bureau chief for ABC7 and WJLA 24/7, told the National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast Team that increasing demand for more content poses challenges for TV newsrooms in maintaining quality. He talked to Team member Mark Hamrick. Photo: Bill McCloskey The demand in today's newsrooms for more quantity -- live shots for multiple newscasts each day, copy for station websites and tweeted updates -- has shifted emphasis in TV newsrooms from quality to quantity D.C. bureau chief for ABC7 and WJLA 24/7 Sam Ford told members of the National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast team on May…
Type: News