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Communicator & Journalist Roundtable Dinner
National Press Club members are invited to another lively discussion with fellow communications leaders and journalists on current topics that we all face in our function and profession. By sharing our concerns, ideas, approaches and strategies, we help each other be more effective in our roles. A three-course dinner with wine will be served, at a special price of $62 per person for NPC members. Note: Members must be logged into their NPC membership account in order to access tickets for this event. Cash bar at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Business attire. This event is open to NPC…
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Curtis Eichelberger is the Senior Manager of Policy Communications at Amazon. He started his career as a journalist at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, where he covered the Denver Broncos, University of Colorado and Denver Nuggets beats. Eichelberger moved to Bloomberg News and covered the NFL at-large with a focus on sports business, but later shifted to enterprise/investigative reporting. Sixteen years later the company shuttered the department and Eichelberger lived on freelance and the proceeds from an earlier book deal, for nearly two years. He joined MLex, a LexisNexis company that…
Learn to leverage library resources for your research and reporting at Sept. 8 NPCJI webinar
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 George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida.…
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24th Annual Members' Photography Exhibit Opening Reception
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Join NPC members and guests for the official opening of the 24th annual members' photography exhibit, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 6:30 to 8:00 pm in the Fourth Estate Room. The exhibit is the Club's annual celebration of visual storytelling, with print photos and electronic images on display in the 13th floor lobby for all of September. Here's your chance to meet many of the photographers, and hear about their work. Questions: contact Photography Team chair Alan Kotok at [email protected]
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About Kristen Welker
Starting Sept. 17, Welker will become the 13th moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the longest-running show on television. She will be the second woman to moderate the program and the first journalist of color to moderate a Sunday public affairs broadcast. Welker joined “Weekend TODAY” as co-anchor in January 2020 and began covering the White House for NBC News in December 2011, traveling domestically and internationally with President Barack Obama, then-First Lady Michelle Obama, and then-Vice President Joe Biden. Welker also covered President Donald Trump’s administration, the 2020…
About the National Press Club Founded in 1908, the National Press Club is the world’s leading professional organization for journalists. The Club has 3,000 members representing nearly every major journalism organization and is a leading voice for press freedom in the United States and around the world.
About the National Press Club Journalism Institute The National Press Club Journalism Institute promotes an engaged global citizenry through an independent and free press, and equips journalists with skills and standards to inform the public in ways that inspire a more representative democracy. As the nonprofit affiliate of the National Press Club, the Institute powers journalism in the public interest.
NBC News’ Kristen Welker to Accept 2023 National Press Club Fourth Estate Award
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2023 – Kristen Welker, NBC News chief White House correspondent and incoming moderator of “Meet the Press,” will receive the National Press Club’s Fourth Estate Award during a gala in her honor on Nov. 28 in Washington. The award recognizes journalists who have made significant contributions to the field and is the Club’s most esteemed prize. Welker, who on Saturday appeared on her final broadcast as co-anchor of “Weekend TODAY”, is known for her political reporting, which has appeared across all NBC News and MSNBC platforms, including “NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt…
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Lorissa Rinehart, author of “First to the Front, The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent,” uncovers the incredible story of Dickey Chappelle, who endured harrowing challenges in Vietnam and became the first female journalist killed in combat. In 1962 Chapelle took one of the first photographs published of an American soldier in combat in Vietnam, and won the George Polk Memorial Award for courageous coverage.
Elizabeth Becker, award-winning author of “You Don’t Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War,” shines a light on the truth of war through the eyes of three women correspondents in Vietnam. Becker herself was a war correspondent for the Washington Post and one of the only reporters to interview Pol Pot, the genocidal leader of Cambodia. She has won numerous awards including from the Overseas Press Club and a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for team coverage of 9/11.
In the War Zone: How groundbreaking women correspondents beat the odds to cover the Vietnam War
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Join the National Press Club's History and Heritage Team for a discussion with Lorissa Rinehart and Elizabeth Becker on the breathtaking challenges endured on the battlefield by female war correspondents during the Vietnam War on Wednesday, October 11 at 2 p.m. The event will be moderated by team member Claire Swift, award-winning broadcast journalist, Executive Chairman of the American News Women’s Club, and associate editor of American Heritage Magazine. The event is free for Club members and $15 for the general public.
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