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2022 Silver Owls Fall Hoot
A panel featuring former female presidents of the National Press Club as well former presidents of the Washington Press Club said there has been progress in the treatment of women in the industry but more work lies ahead, during a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the National Press Club admitting female members as part of the Silver Owls Fall Hoot. The panel: Peggy Simpson, WPC president, 1975-76 Ann Carey McFeatters, WPC president, 1981-82; Vivian Vahlberg, NPC president, 1982; Mary Kay Quinlan, NPC president, 1986; Lisa Nicole Matthews, NPC president, 2021
Type: Media
Nearshoring Trailblazers: The case for the Dominican Republic
Speaker: Víctor Bisonó, Minister of industry, commerce and micro, Small and medium enterprises Please join us in the following Conferences of Dominican Week 2022 RSVP HERE
Type: Event
“American Cartel” takes a hard look at the role drug companies played in the epidemic of opioid addiction. Since the introduction of the synthetic painkillers in the late 1990s, more than half a million people have died from overdoses involving prescription and illicit opioids. The book tracks a small team of DEA agents as they delve into the business of prescription painkillers, and the group of lawyers who fought to hold the drug industry accountable.
Scott Higham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Washington Post. He served as a lead reporter on the Post’s “The Opioid Files” series, which was a Pulitzer finalist for Public Service in 2020. His investigation into the opioid industry with CBS's “60 Minutes” received the Peabody Award, an Emmy, and the duPont-Columbia and Edward R. Murrow awards. Higham is the co-author of “Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery.”
Sari Horwitz is a four-time Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter who has been at The Washington Post for four decades, where she has covered the Justice Department and criminal justice issues. She was a lead reporter on the Post’s “The Opioid Files” series, which was a Pulitzer finalist for Public Service in 2020. Horwitz has authored or co-authored three books: “Finding Chandra: A True Washington Murder Mystery,” “Sniper: Inside the Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nation” and “Justice in Indian Country.”
Institute panel to advise students on how to land a journalism internship in D.C., Friday
Journalism internships in Washington, D.C., are a chance to expand a student’s skills and to experience life in a professional newsroom. But internship experiences are unique. Considering a D.C.-based internship means thinking about relocating, whether the internship is paid, and other issues that can feel like barriers to applying — and even make a talented student feel like they don’t belong in D.C. The National Press Club Journalism Institute is inviting student journalists of all experience levels to join a virtual question-and-answer session featuring internship coordinators based in…
Type: News
VOA Chief National Correspondent to Speak at American Legion Post 20
Voice of America Chief National Correspondent Steve Herman will be the guest speaker at the National Press Club's American Legion Post 20 meeting on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 12 noon in the McClendon Room. Herman will discuss the war in Ukraine, and efforts to get accurate information into Ukraine and Russia. Herman has served as a VOA correspondent and bureau chief in India, Korea, and Thailand. He also served in 2016 as VOA's Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, based at the State Department, before covering the entire Trump administration and the first eight months of the Biden administration as…
Type: Event
Rumi Forum Book Event: Vincent N. Parrillo, "Hearts & Minds"
Bestselling Dr. Vincent N. Parrillo will discuss his new book, “Hearts & Minds” at a Rumi Forum in-person Book Event on Thursday, September 29 at 6:30 PM. RSVp: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/412375585477 Dr. Parrillo and Dr. Ansari present a comparative and qualitative cross-cultural study of an educational phenomenon, Hizmet schools, in seven countries of varying histories and ethnic compositions. Some are fairly homogeneous, while others are longstanding multicultural, multiracial societies. Some have Muslim-majority populations, others a small Muslim minority. Through hundreds of…
Type: Event
NPC Pub Quiz
Join fellow club members and their guests on Thursday, September 22 at 6:30 for trivia, food, drinks, prizes and camaraderie. Pub Quiz is a great opportunity to gather with friends over food and drinks and to meet new friends and members, so gather a team of four and come to the Reliable Source’s Truman Lounge. Veteran Pub Quiz emcee Marc Wojno will be on hand. Space fills up quickly, so be sure to arrive early to grab a table. Don’t have a team? No worries - we’ll team you up. Questions provided by Brainstormer Trivia.
Type: Event
Award-winning "Dopesick" author and journalist Beth Macy will join Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Scott Higham and Sari Horwitz for a discussion of their new books on the opioid crisis in America at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Book and Author event on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 6:30 p.m. Higham and Horwitz will discuss their new book, “American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry," which takes a hard look at the role drug companies played in the epidemic of opioid addiction. Macy, the author of the bestselling "Dopesick" and a writer and a…