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McCarren strengthened Club's finances, press freedom mission
When Bill McCarren founded a startup, U.S. Newswire, in 1986, he moved one floor below a lively social club he saw as a gathering ground for connecting Washington policy-making with the journalists who make the news happen. He joined his upstairs neighbor, the National Press Club, as a member that year. More than three decades later, he will retire after serving the last 16 years as first the Club’s general manager and then as executive director, a tenure marked by the Club’s increasing financial strength and wider reach on press freedom issues. The Club will host a farewell for McCarren at 7…
Type: News
Tales of the Fight for Equal Rights for Women Journalists
NPC History & Heritage Team
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 – Eleanor Clift and Ann Crittenden – will join us at 1 p.m. on June 5 to talk about their legal actions in 1970 against Time, Inc. and Newsweek that allowed women to become writers at those magazines. In 1970, Clift was in the Atlanta bureau of Newsweek Magazine, working as a “Girl Friday” assistant. She said the “women in New York argued on my behalf that I…
Type: Event
Broadcast-Podcast Team Meeting
The Broadcast-Podcast team will have its monthly member meeting on Wednesday, April 26 at 6 pm. Members are welcome to join the discussion in-person or remotely via zoom. The team serves as a forum for members interested in multimedia journalism, including radio, television, podcasting and digital.
Type: Event
International Correspondents Committee Happy Hour
Join your fellow foreign correspondents for drinks at the International Correspondents Committee happy hour! The ICC team will gather in the Reliable Source to mingle, network and discuss current events.
Type: Event
Gandhi's criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi led to a defamation conviction that in March cost him his seat in parliament where he had served for 19 years as leader of the Indian National Congress Party. The conviction and imposition of a particularly harsh two-year prison sentence, he said, demonstrates that the ruling party is using government power to stifle political opposition. Gandhi is appealing the sentence. His “disqualification from office is not the most important thing," he said. "It’s the thousands of voices in civil society, government, who have been frightened into…
Moderator Cary O'Reilly, vice chair of the Events Committee, noted that an Indian journalist colleague had been arrested and accused of spying. “There is a weakening of press freedom. Everyone notices it. The world can see it,” Gandhi said. A collapse of Indian democracy would have worldwide impact, but he said the country can regain lost ground. “India has a very robust system already in place," he said. "If the democratic conversation is allowed to be fostered, then it will heal itself.” Gandhi, the son of the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, the grandson of the late Prime Minister Indira…
Gandhi: Indian democracy under pressure
The foundations of Indian democracy are strong, but threatened, with the country's institutions and media held captive by the ruling party, India's top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi said Thursday at National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker. “You have to have an independent set of institutions that are not pressurized and controlled,” he said. “That’s been the law. That’s been the normal. What is taking place now is an aberration.”
Type: News
McCarren: 'It meant the world to me!’ Club thanks McCarren for years of leadership
People whose lives have been impacted through his press freedom advocacy and leadership over the last 15 years thanked Bill McCarren Friday evening, June 2, at the National Press Club. Some were brought to tears while watching a video highlighting McCarren’s tenure as he retires this month as the Club's executive director. "I'm grateful for the privilege of celebrating your incredible career," Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, said in the video shown during a reception in the First Amendment Lounge. National Press Club Executive Director Bill McCarren…
Type: News
Tonight: Former Sen. Gary Hart, reporter James Risen to discuss 'The Last Honest Man'
Former Sen. Gary Hart and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen will be featured at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Monday, June 5. The program, which begins at 6:30 p.m., will focus on Risen’s new book, “The Last Honest Man,” which explores the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. The committee, chaired by U.S. Sen. Frank Church, D- Idaho, was set up in 1975 to investigate the federal government’s clandestine programs, including the CIA’s plot to assassinate Fidel Castro and the FBI’s role in the…
Type: News
NPC Newsmaker: Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi, India's most prominent opposition leader, spoke at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker on June 1, 2023. His remarks focused on the future of Indian democracy, freedom of speech, and sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
Type: Media