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Changing the Narrative: How the Media Can Help America Recover
Shatterproof, a national nonprofit organization focused on guiding communities, removing systemic barriers to recovery, mobilizing the country to advocate for change, and ending addiction stigma in the U.S., is hosting a National Recovery Month press event for science and health writers as well as national reporters to discuss substance use disorders and the science behind recovery. The event aims to foster conversations between stakeholders and experts in the addiction space through a panel discussion to increase understanding of substance use disorders and improve reporting around this…
Type: Event
Reception for Club members' photo exhibit takes place Sept. 6
A reception to celebrate the National Press Club's annual photography exhibit takes place beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, in the Fourth Estate room. The event is free with a cash bar. To attend, please RSVP online. The exhibit, which opened last week, featured 209 digital images and print photos from 54 members. The images will be displayed in the Club's main lobby through Friday, Sept. 29. At the reception, participants will hear from Yevgen Nemchenko, founder of the Conflicted Art collection, an exhibit of Ukrainian works on display at various sites in Washington. Nemchenko will…
Type: News
War correspondent talks craft and challenges in new book
Sean Carberry has covered conflicts in more than 20 countries, including Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan and Colombia. But it’s his time in NPR’s Kabul's bureau that takes center stage in the new book, "Passport Stamps: Searching the World for a War to Call Home." In the latest episode of Update-1, NPC Broadcast/Podcast Team Co-Chair Adam Konowe asks Carberry what drew him from the comfort of WBUR’s studios in Boston to many of the world’s hottest war zones. Related topics include journalistic competition and camaraderie, working with local fixers, the shock of returning home, mainstream versus…
Type: News
War Correspondent Talks Craft and Challenges in New Book
Sean Carberry has covered conflict in more than 20 countries, including Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan, the DRC and Colombia. But it’s his time in NPR’s Kabul, Afghanistan bureau that takes center stage in the new book, Passport Stamps: Searching the World for a War to Call Home. In this episode of Update-1, NPC Broadcast/Podcast Team Co-Chair Adam Konowe asks Carberry what drew him from the comfort of WBUR’s studios in Boston to many of the world’s hottest war zones. Related topics include journalistis competition and camaraderie, working with local fixers, the shock of returning home,…
Type: Media
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Dr. Jason Dempsey is one of the nation’s leading experts on military demographics and civilian-military relations. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and earned his doctorate in political science from Columbia University. Between tours to Afghanistan in 2009 and 2012, Jason spent two years in the White House, where he initially served as the First Lady’s White House Fellow and was put on point to take the broad concept of military family support and turn it into Joining Forces, the First Lady and Dr. Biden’s comprehensive national initiative to mobilize all…
Ambassador Roya Rahmani is a senior advisor at the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center. She also serves as a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, as well as a senior fellow for international security at the New America Foundation. She is a former Afghan diplomat with nearly two decades of experience working with governments, nongovernmental organizations, and multilateral institutions. Rahmani was the first woman to serve as Afghan ambassador to the United States, first Afghan woman ambassador to Indonesia, and served as the first director general…
Martin Smith is an award-winning reporter and producer for FRONTLINE who has covered the world: from revolution in Central America and the fall of communism in Russia, to the rise of Al Qaeda and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, to the inside story of the global financial meltdown. He was among the first journalists to investigate Col. Oliver North’s clandestine Contra arms network and one of the first western reporters to investigate the emergence of Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network. Smith has won every major award in broadcast television, including four duPont Columbia Gold Batons…
Documentary Screening of "America and the Taliban" & Panel Discussion
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Join the NPC Events Team for a screening of FRONTLINE's "America and the Taliban Part 3" followed by a panel discussion on the series and where things stand today. Watch the first two parts of the series here. "How America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and U.S. officials, part three of this epic three-part investigation traces the missteps and consequences."
Type: Event
NPC Headliners Coffee & Conversation: Harry Dunn "Standing My Ground"
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Harry Dunn, a Capitol police officer on duty on Jan. 6, 2021, as an angry mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, will discuss his new book, “Standing My Ground: A Capitol Police Officer’s Fight for Accountability and Good Trouble After January 6th” at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Oct. 26 at 10 a.m. Many people watched the deadly attack on the Capitol unfold live in mesmerizing fashion on television. Fewer were there to experience it. Dunn stood at democracy’s door that cold day between what was supposed to be the centuries-old peaceful transfer of post-election power…
Type: Event
Screening of Frontline's 'America and the Taliban' to take place Sept. 7 at the Club
The third part of Frontline's "America and the Taliban" series will be aired at the Club at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7. The showing will be followed by a panel discussion on the series and where things stand two years after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Registration is required for the event, sponsored by the Club's Events Team. The event is only for Club members and their guests. The panel will include: Martin Smith, an award-winning reporter and producer for Frontline who has covered the rise of Al Qaeda and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was one of the first western…
Type: News