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Club election season is underway with online voting now open, culminates Dec. 1
Friday, Dec. 1, is Election Day at the National Press Club. In-person voting available that day only in the Club elections will culminate during Taco Night, when the election results will be announced and the next Club president traditionally gives a sneak peak of his or her goals for the coming Club year to those gathered in the Reliable Source. Online voting began Monday, Nov. 13. Online voting will end at noon on Dec. 1. Members should have received a ballot in their email inboxes and instructions for casting it. You must have a ballot sent to you in order to do the voting online. For…
Type: News
Vivian Awards
National Press Club President Eileen O'Reilly will recognize journalist and communicator members for outstanding service to the Club at the Vivian Awards ceremony on Wednesday, December 6 at 6:00 p.m. The presentation will take place at the National Press Club in the First Amendment Lounge and is open to those Club members who are actively involved with one of the Club's 16 teams. "The Vivians" are named after former club president Vivian Vahlberg and honor the Club's top volunteers.
Type: Event
News Briefing with Advocates for Alsu Kurmasheva
Registration is essential in order to ensure attendees can gain access to the National Press Club.
The National Press Club is hosting a news briefing with advocates for Alsu Kurmasheva on Monday, Nov. 27 at 4 p.m. In May 2023, Alsu, who is a citizen of the United States and Russia, traveled to Kazan, Russia to assist her ailing mother. This was not a work trip but a health emergency. Upon attempting to depart Russia in June she was denied exit and ordered to remain in Kazan. She was detained on Oct. 18 for failing to self-register as a “foreign agent”. She is the 2nd U.S. journalist to be detained by Russia since the end of the Cold War. The first was Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street…
Type: Event
Enjoy holiday buffet and jazz at Reliable Source, Dec. 14
Mark Thursday, Dec. 14 on your calendar for a festive holiday buffet and a night of jazz with the Greater U Street Jazz Collective at the Reliable Source. The event is open to NPC members and their guests. The price of the buffet is $35 for members and $40 for nonmembers. Dinner reservations begin at 5:30 p.m. The jazz band begins at 6 p.m. Watch The Wire for the buffet menu. Reservations strongly recommended.
Type: News
From 1975 until 2016, Compton recalled, she witnessed changes in presidential style of dealing with reporters and the technology advancements that helped and hindered efficient news coverage. The constant need, she said, was access to and connections with White House staff. Compton acknowledged that tech advances have given reporters fast access to fact checking and cut the time from an event's occurrence to it being reported. But expressed frustration as reporter tactics evolved from the "phone lines and film era" when "we knew our sources in person" to an age when presidents can bypass the…
She tracked those changes administration to administration. For example, Compton and a film cameraman "who could ski backwards" interviewed President Gerald Ford on the slopes at Vail, Colo. At the end of the downhill chat, Ford asked if she needed anything else. She joked that she didn't have any film of the president falling down. He proceed to go forward and fake a wipe out. "Ford wasn't afraid of the press." That film had to be transported to an ABC affiliate in Denver to be processed and transmitted to the network. By the Carter administration TV crews had videotape and could produce and…
ABC's Ann Compton reviews her tenure as White House correspondent at exclusive Club dinner
Ann Compton was the first to arrive for Wednesday's Legends of Broadcasting dinner at the National Press Club. As guests arrived, she eagerly greeted each one and worked the room, as the retired ABC News White House correspondent had done developing friendships and sources for 41 years at the Executive Mansion. During questions-and-answers following the dinner, sponsored by the Club's Broadcast/Podcast Team, she described her habit of getting to know the chiefs of staff and their assistants, other White House insiders as well as Secret Service members and White House butlers so she could be…
Type: News
Reserve now for guided tour of 'Notorious RBG' exhibit, Wednesday
Join other National Press Club members on Wednesday, Nov. 29 at 6:15 p.m. for a guided tour of the Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an exhibit at the Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum. Register here. There are limited spaces available so reserve your spot today! Club members will meet outside of the museum at 6 p.m. to gather prior to the group tour. Based on The New York Times bestselling book of the same name, this unique exhibition was created by the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, in partnership with the book’s co-authors, journalist Irin…
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Watch sold out 2023 Fourth Estate Award Gala livestream, Nov. 28
National Press Club members and their families can watch the 2023 Fourth Estate Award Gala honoring NBC News’ Kristen Welker, moderator of “Meet the Press,” via livestream on Tuesday, Nov. 28. The program begins at 7 p.m. ET. The gala is sold out. Please note that tickets will not be available at the door. Club members who wish to participate will be able to watch the event as it livestreams on the Club’s website. Check this link for details the day of the event. The Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute have ensured livestream coverage for those wishing to watch the festivities. The…
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