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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight Committee, will speak at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Newsmaker on Monday, Jan. 30 at 10 a.m. in the Ballroom. Comer is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee now that Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives. Comer has said the Oversight Committee under Republican control will focus on rooting out waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in the federal government and holding the Biden Administration accountable. He also promised to investigate President Biden's son, Hunter for alleged "influence…
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'The Kalb Report: Goodnight and Good Luck': Long-running broadcast interview series airs final segment Feb. 18
After 28 years and 103 programs, the longest-running and most successful long-term project in National Press Club history, The Kalb Report public broadcasting series, comes to a close this spring as moderator Marvin Kalb and his long-time friend and fellow network news correspondent Ted Koppel look back, around and ahead at the challenges for both journalism and our democracy. The program, recorded in November, will premiere on Maryland Public Television on Saturday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. with an encore presentation Sunday, April 23, at 4 p.m. It also will be available online via MPT and the…
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Grosvenor recently published A Man of the World: My Life at National Geographic which describes audacious feats of exploration, from the successful hunt for the Titanic to Jane Goodall's field studies. Offering a rare portrait of one of the world's most iconic media empires, this revealing autobiography makes an impassioned argument to know―and care for―our planet. Though his career path had been paved by four generations of his family before him, Gilbert M. Grosvenor left his own mark on the National Geographic Society, founded in 1888 and recognized the world over by its ubiquitous yellow…
Three generations of the Grosvenor family vote in the National Press Club election on December 14, 1956. Standing, left to right, are Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Chairman of the Society at the time, his son, Melville Bell Grosvenor, then President and Editor of the National Geographic Magazine, his son, Gilbert M. Grosvenor, on the magazine’s illustration staff, and Frank Holeman, President of the National Press Club.
Gilbert M. Grosvenor Reflects on 50 Years at National Geographic
Gilbert Grosvenor, the former Chairman of the National Geographic Society and Editor of its magazine, will speak in a question and answer session on Friday, Jan. 27 at 2 p.m. in the Ballroom. Grosvenor will reflect on his career and the evolution of journalism over the last six decades. The event is sponsored by the History and Heritage Committee of the National Press Club. Grosvenor will be interviewed by his brother, Edwin S. Grosvenor, Editor of American Heritage Magazine. The Grosvenor family’s involvement in the National Press Club goes back over 100 years. Gil’s grandfather, Gilbert H.…
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Friday Taco Night has usual, but try some new Reliable Source menu offerings, too
The National Press Club's Reliable Source Bar and Grill has a couple of new appetizers to fire up your taste buds. How about a platter of mini-bites? Each comes with an assortment of pastry-wrapped hot dogs, macaroni and cheese balls, meatballs and mozzarella sticks. If chicken wings are not your favorite finger food, there's now an offering of crispy breaded chicken strips, coated in cheese and breadcrumbs, accompanied by a dip of either ranch or blue cheese dressing. A new Winter Green salad of peppery arugula, radishes, fennel, oranges and pecans is $6 as a side salad and $15 as an entrée…
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