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Author and expert analyzes America’s global competition with China
In this edition of Update-1, National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast Team member Lincoln Smith talks to Dr. Jonathan Ward about Ward's latest book, “The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China.”
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She cited several examples of exclusion, including learning that although she was a key member of a story team, she would not be included at an offsite story conference because women weren’t allowed in. In another incident, at a luncheon meeting with a financier and another reporter at an all-male athletic club near Wall Street, the party was rushed into a back elevator. The staff brought a screen to block their table. “It really hits you in the gut,” she said, noting none of her colleagues objected. “They didn’t bat an eye. That’s the way it was back then.” As a Fortune magazine researcher…
“Well, ‘That’s the way it was!’ is the key phrase!” underscored Clift, who now writes a Daily Beast column. Newsweek hired her as a secretary, a ‘Gal Friday.’ “I came into this [job] without any expectations," married with her first child and grateful for work, she said. On Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, the day President Kennedy was assassinated, the magazine has closed its edition for the week. Clift's boss left for Dallas and told the rest of the staff to go home to grieve, and return tomorrow. He left her to manage the newsroom. “There I was, the right hand of the man [in charge], assembling…
Clift, Crittenden reflect on breaking into the boys' club of hard news reporting
Women broke into the men-only preserve of hard news reporting through legal fights and sheer determination, groundbreaking journalists Eleanor Clift and Ann Crittenden told a National Press Club audience at the History and Heritage team's "Tales for the Fight for Equal Rights for Women Journalists” on Monday. “It was very obvious what the system was,” Crittenden explained. “Women were researchers and men were reporters.” Magazine publisher Henry Luce called them his “vestal virgins,” she said to audience gasps. “We were second class.”
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NPC Journalism Institute tackles ethics in an age of disinformation with webinar series tapping into Murrow legacy this fall
The family of broadcast legend Edward R. Murrow, 2020 National Press Club President Michael Freedman, and the National Press Club Journalism Institute are joining forces this fall on a series of webinars entitled “Why Murrow Matters: Ethics in an Age of Disinformation.” Under a newly approved grant from Oklahoma City based Inasmuch Foundation, the Institute will develop and host a series of four discussion-oriented webinars providing practical lessons in exercising ethical journalistic decision-making in a time of technological innovation and disinformation campaigns. “The final cog in the…
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Panelists will include: • Cal Dobbs (he/they) is a queer transgender ultra marathoner and long-distance hiker dedicated to pushing boundaries and fighting for inclusion. Dobbs is currently running across America, from California to Florida, to advocate for transgender people's rights in sports and access to gender-affirming healthcare.
• Devon Ojeda (they/he) is the senior national organizer at National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE), where he works to create structural changes to improve wellbeing for the trans community, such as access to adequate health coverage and temporary housing. The Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) named Ojeda a 2018-2019 James Marshall Public Policy Fellow. Ojeda previously worked for the Senate HELP Subcommittee on primary health and retirement security in the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders. Ojeda earned as Masters and Ph.D. in community psychology at Wichita State…
• Andrea Resendez (they/them) is a trans 2Spirit model, activist, and content creator from La Paz, Bolivia. Resendez got their start by documenting their transition online on YouTube, which expanded to actively creating safe online spaces for transgender and nonbinary people. Resendez consults and trains at schools, nonprofit organizations, and healthcare institutions on transgender issues, gender-variant communities and allyship. Resendez graduated from Hunter College with a bachelor's degree in psychology, shortly after which they began their medical transition.
Today at 2 p.m.: Transgender advocates to discuss impact of anti-trans laws, rhetoric
Transgender advocates from communities across the nation will discuss the impact of anti-trans laws and rhetoric at a Headliners Newsmaker on Thursday, June 8 at 2 p.m. Lawmakers in 49 states have introduced more than 550 bills in 2023 to limit access to healthcare, curtail legal recognition, and otherwise restrict the rights of transgender and non-binary people, according to the Trans Formations Project's legislation tracker. Registration is essential. Click here to register. This Headliners event is open to credentialed media and Club members. To submit a question for the speaker, email…
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