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An Evening with Dana Tai Soon Burgess
Join renowned Korean American modern-dance choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess as he shares how his worldview and multifaceted background drives his creation. The memoir traces how his choreography is informed by his early years in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This insightful journey delves into an artist’s process that is inspired by varying cultural perspectives, stories, and experiences. Candid and intelligent, Burgess gives readers the opportunity to experience up close the passion for art and dance that has informed his life. Burgess will be interviewed about his memoir and answer audience…
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Bringing members back to Club for in-person events tops O’Reilly's agenda
The setting for Eileen O’Reilly’s first speech as National Press Club president illustrated one of her goals. She spoke Friday, Jan. 20, to a group of Club members who filled tables that stretched across three conference rooms during the Club’s Annual Membership Meeting. O’Reilly said she wants to bring more members back to the Club for in-person events, an effort that would add momentum to a trend that began last year as the COVID-19 pandemic waned. “The time is now to fully revive the Club,” O’Reilly told an audience of about 70. “Just look at us here. Members are excited to be here, and it…
Type: News
NPC Headliners Luncheon: Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro will speak Feb. 21 at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon. Del Toro, who presides over the Navy’s $210 billion budget, has said he wants to secure the training and equipment to ensure naval readiness and to address security challenges, including China’s naval ambitions, climate instability and COVID-19’s ongoing impact. This in-person event begins with lunch in the Club ballroom at 12:30 p.m. Remarks begin at 1 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session ending at 2 p.m. National Press Club members may purchase tickets for $25. Non-member…
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Club members invited to service for Blake Hounshell
National Press Club members are invited to attend a celebration of life service this week for Blake Hounshell, a New York Times political reporter who died on Jan. 10. The service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, at the 6th & I Synagogue in Washington. Times Executive Editor Joe Kahn and other colleagues and friends of Hounshell will speak at the event. Hounshell, 44, was the editor and lead writer of the Times’ “On Politics” newsletter. He previously was a reporter and editor for Foreign Policy magazine and Politico. Hounshell was considered a pioneer of online journalism and…
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Today the NPC administers the annual Ann Cottrell Free Animal Reporting Award created by Free’s family in 2005. The author of three books featuring animals, Free died in 2004. In addressing the Board of Governors about establishing the award, Free's daughter Elissa Free, an NPC member, pointed out that her mother got her start in Washington journalism working on the 12th floor of the National Press Building, just below the Club. She traveled the world and covered political leaders and big stories of the day, but her reporting on animal conditions at an FDA facility took her career in another…
Her family also gave the NPC Free’s well-used typewriter. The Club plans to display it in the president’s office along with Helen Thomas’s typewriter as tributes to Washington women journalists who forged a path for others to follow. Dr. Maurine Beasley, professor emerita at the University of Maryland-College Park Philip Merrill College of Journalism, is an NPC member, former Washington Post reporter and author who is a co-author of "The Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia," to which Ann Cottrell Free contributed.
Library of Congress has posted papers of pioneering woman journalist Ann Cottrell Free
Eleanor Roosevelt, standing, presides at one of her Press Conference Association meetings in Washington in the 1940s. Journalist Ann Cottrell Free, on left with white circle on her lapel, was in attendance. Photos courtesy of Elissa Free The papers of Ann Cottrell Free, a National Press Club member known for her advocacy of women journalists as head of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Press Conference Association as well as her devotion to animal rights, have been processed and are ready for use by researchers at the Library of Congress. Described on “Unfolding History,” the blog of the Library’s…
Type: News