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The program will include a question-and-answer session with Higham and Horwitz, both investigative reporters for The Washington Post, and Macy. To submit a question in advance for the speaker, put CARTEL in the subject line and email to [email protected]. Tickets cost $5 for members of the National Press Club and $10 for the general public. Click here to reserve your seat. Pre-ordered books will be available for pickup and signing at the event. Attendees will also be able to purchase books at the door.
About Scott Higham
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.”
About Sari Horwitz
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.”
About Beth Macy
Beth Macy is a Virginia-based journalist with three decades of experience and an award-winning author of three New York Times bestselling books: “Factory Man,” “Truevine,” and “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America.” Her first book, “Factory Man,” won a J. Anthony Lukas Prize and “Dopesick” was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, won the L.A. Times Book Prize for Science and Technology, and was described as a “masterwork of narrative nonfiction” by The New York Times. Dopesick has now been made into a Peabody award-winning and Emmy-nominated Hulu series on…
Virtual Lunch & Learn: ROI for strategic communicators, Sept. 21
The National Press Club Communicators Team is hosting a “Lunch and Learn” session on Wednesday, Sept. 21 at noon to discuss methods of measuring and delivering quality returns on investments (ROI) in communications programs. This online/virtual program is free and only open to Club members. Register online. The session will feature Beth Egan, associate professor of advertising at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, where she brings more than 25 years of experience in the advertising and media business. Her academic research focuses on the intersection of…
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Pub Quiz with Brainstormer Trivia returns to the Truman Lounge, Sept. 22
The National Press Club’s trivia night is back! “Pub Quiz with Brainstormer Trivia” returns live and in-person in the Club’s Truman Lounge tonight, September 22. Game on at 6:30 pm. As it was pre-pandemic, gather your fellow Club members and friends – form a team of between four and six -- for an evening of food, drinks and merriment. Prove that you are your teammates are the smartest ones in the room. Masks are no longer required (just optional). Since 2004, Pub Quiz has been a monthly staple at the National Press Club and Brainstormer Trivia, which has been supplying those fun and…
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Politicization of civics hinders teaching of law, history, Browne-Marshall tells Club's Member-Author Group
Civics education has become politicized, inhibiting children from learning about the law and history, said Gloria Browne-Marshall, author of "The U.S. Constitution: An African American Context," at an event sponsored by the National Press Club's Member-Author Group on Sept. 15. Highlighting findings from this year's survey from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennslvania, which found that 47 percent of Americans cannot name the three branches of government, Browne-Marshall said that while Americans are surrounded by laws, most do not know what they are and how they…
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Learn how to use psychological research to pre-bunk disinformation in election coverage, Sept. 29
Journalism and democracy have been upended by the growth of mis- and dis-information. Countering it effectively requires understanding why people are susceptible, targeted, and how they can become more resilient. Psychological research can teach journalists how to pre-bunk disinformation and convey credibility in ways that readers, viewers, and listeners can process -- which is more essential than ever as November’s elections near. To learn how to use to use these strategies in covering elections, join the National Press Club Journalism Institute, the American Psychological Association and…
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