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Young Members Team Meeting
Join us for the second open meeting of the year for the Young Member Team. Any and all are welcome. Come network with fellow young members while learning about the team and how to get involved. Stick around for karaoke at 6 p.m.
Type: Event
CNN’s Feist regales Silver Owls Spring Hoot
The National Press Club’s Silver Owls awarded CNN Bureau Chief Sam Feist its coveted Order of the Owl award after he regaled the Owls’ Spring Hoot. He told about his encounter with President Donald Trump on the morning after his inauguration when he was called to the White House because CNN had run a small story that morning saying the crowd for Trump’s inauguration was smaller than for Barack Obama’s first inaugural. Trump would not believe the aerial photos the networks had taken at the same time for each event. Even after Feist showed Trump’s team aerial photos showing the difference in…
Type: News
NPC Headliners Luncheon: Maryland Governor Wes Moore
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore will speak June 22 at a National Press Club Headliners luncheon. Moore, Maryland's first Black governor, recently closed out his first legislative session, signing into law a $15 an hour minimum wage, expanded tax breaks for military retirees, and the SERVE Act, a first-in-the-nation program offering high school students a state-paid service year option. He also signed new gun control bills that restrict who can carry guns in public and where they can bring them. The National Rifle Association immediately challenged the measures in federal court. The event begins with…
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NPC Headliners Newsmaker: Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi, India's most prominent opposition leader, will speak at a National Press Club in-person Headliners Newsmaker on Thursday, June 1 at 2 p.m. His remarks will focus on the future of Indian democracy, freedom of speech, and sustainable and inclusive economic growth. In March, India's lower house of parliament disqualified Gandhi as a lawmaker following his conviction and sentencing for defamation based on a 2019 speech in which he allegedly defamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a thief. He has contended the ruling is a politically motivated measure to stifle opposition and has…
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Hear tales of fight for equal rights for women journalists on June 5
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Ann Crittenden In the late 1960s, women journalists finally were beginning to be hired as hard news reporters. But their treatment in salary and responsibility would probably shock today’s reporters. Ground had to be broken. Two of those groundbreakers – Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Ann Crittenden – will appear at the National Press Club at 1 p.m. on Monday, June 5, to talk about their legal actions in 1970 against Time Inc. and Newsweek that allowed women to get bylines and close the pay gap with their male colleagues. Norton – now best known for her…
Type: News
The Future of Strategic Alliances Conference & Dinner Event
THE FUTURE OF STRATEGIC ALLIANCES CONFERENCE & DINNER EVENT June 22 & 23, hosted at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20045, 13th floor, conducted by the Gold Institute for International Strategy. The Gold Institute for International Strategy (GIIS) is pleased to announce our "Future of Strategic Alliances" Conference taking place on June 22-23, 2023 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. This topic has taken on heightened importance in light of the on-going conflict in Ukraine, the rising strategic threat from China, how an emboldened Islamic…
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The Future of Strategic Alliances Conference & Dinner Event
THE FUTURE OF STRATEGIC ALLIANCES CONFERENCE & DINNER EVENT June 22 & 23, hosted at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20045, 13th floor, conducted by the Gold Institute for International Strategy. The Gold Institute for International Strategy (GIIS) is pleased to announce our "Future of Strategic Alliances" Conference taking place on June 22-23, 2023 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. This topic has taken on heightened importance in light of the on-going conflict in Ukraine, the rising strategic threat from China, how an emboldened Islamic…
Type: Event
In March, India's lower house of parliament disqualified Gandhi as a lawmaker following his conviction and sentencing for defamation based on a 2019 speech in which he allegedly defamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a thief. He has contended the ruling is a politically motivated measure to stifle opposition and has appealed it at a higher court. Gandhi, the son of the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the grandson of the late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and the great-grandson of India’s founding prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, is a vocal critic of Modi. This Headliners event is open to…