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Federal Holiday - Club Closed
The National Press Club will be closed Monday, October 9th, in observance of the federal holiday.
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Carberry recalled an attack on a popular Lebanese restaurant in January 2014 in Kabul as a pivotal time time for him as NPR’s Kabul correspondent. “That night was a difficult thing to get through because a lot of friends were there and didn’t survive," he said. Carberry said he hopes the book might help “start the follow-on conversation around the mental health impact of this work and importance of recognizing that and providing much more resources and awareness.” “I saw a lot of my colleagues have breakdowns of some kind out in the field,” he said, adding that many of his colleagues coped…
Carberry faulted news organizations for not providing war correspondents with adequate preparation for what they might encounter or mandatory post-conflict mental health services. “I didn’t have hostile environment training until about four years into doing this work,” he said. “But even in those courses, they’re not focusing on the mental or psychological aspects.” After traumatic incidents, he said, “there were a couple of times when someone in Washington would say, ‘Hey, we’ve got a guy you can call.’ …To be honest, it felt like a box-checking exercise.” He compared that “procedural”…
Carberry said that for returning war correspondents, “some kind of mandatory re-entry process would be good on multiple levels. One is because you normalize it, you make everyone go through it, so there’s no stigma.” “If you’re going to send someone off to a dangerous assignment, there is an obligation in having some kind of re-entry process,” Carberry said.
Journalist Sean Carberry discusses mental toll of war correspondence at Headliners book talk
As a war correspondent your job is “consuming death, pain, and destruction and communicating that,” according to Sean Carberry, author of "Passport Stamps: Searching the World for a War to Call Home." “When you’re in the moment, in the flow, you’re staying a step ahead of this stuff catching up with you,” he said. Once he returned to the United States, it caught up with him — emotionally. Carberry discussed his seven years as a radio journalist covering conflicts on four continents at a Headliners Book Rap on Thursday, August 17. In the discussion led by Club Vice President Emily Wilkins,…
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Reliable Source Menu
Starters Soup of the Day Cup 5 | Bowl 7 Members NPC Chili Cup 7 | Bowl 10 Sour cream, cheese & onion on the side. Quesadillas (chicken or cheese) 13 Appetizer Platter 12 Pigs in a blanket, mac & cheese bites, cocktail meatball and mozzarella sticks. Mustard & marinara dipping sauces on side. Crispy Breaded Chicken Strips 12 Five panko & Parmesan-coated pieces. Ranch or blue cheese dressing on the side. Salads Grilled Salmon Greek Salad Entrée 24 | Side 10 Feta, cucumbers, kalamatas, pepperoncini & orzo w/ herb vinaigrette. Green Salad Entrée 15 | Side 6 Frisée, fennel,…
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Behind the Paywall: Leverage library resources for your research and reporting
Your local librarians do much more than check out books. Learn how journalists can tap public and academic libraries to find and use government documents, academic research, archives and other resources that are free via libraries, but not easily accessible on the open web. Whether it’s uncovering a new information source or helping to fact-check your work, librarians and libraries are a goldmine for accessing information – and much faster than you may think. Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute to learn from April Hines, journalism and mass communications librarian for the…
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Faster than FOIA: Public records you can find online
Need to verify the rank of a dead veteran? Wondering about access to New York criminal records? Trying to find the maiden name of a twice-married woman? For journalists, knowing where to look – without waiting on a public information request response – is key. Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute to learn from award-winning investigator Caryn Baird, who will present a practical working model of public records research based on her years of experience at the Tampa Bay Times. Baird is a researcher for Politifact and the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. For more than 24 years,…
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Photography Team Meeting
This meeting of the Photography Team will be used to set up the print photo display for the 2023 members' photo exhibit. Meet us at 11:30 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room. After the meeting, those attending in-person are invited for a self-funded drink at the Reliable Source.
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