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NPC Headliners Screening: "Anna"
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Join Bob Woodward, U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and former CIA Director John Brennan at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20 for a screening of the biographical film “Anna” with opening remarks from Sean Penn and followed by a discussion on the dangers journalists face in the 21st century. The film depicts Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s brave crusade as she risks her life to fight for an independent voice in Putin's Russia. Politkovskaya survived poisoning, detention and beatings, but was ultimately silenced, becoming one of more than 1,800 journalists killed so far this century.…
Type: Event
Boost your job prospects at Career Day on Friday
National Press Club members, journalists of all types and affiliations and communication professionals who are looking for new opportunities are invited to consider attending the 2024 Career Day at the National Press Club, an in-person job bonanza that will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, March 22. Tickets are on sale now: $10 for Club members, $15 for students and $25 for the general public. Anyone interested in purchasing group tickets, may email [email protected]. It's a two-way avenue — employers can connect to potential talent; participants can meet recruiters and exhibitors, get…
Type: News
Cheney gives a first-hand account of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection from inside the halls of Congress. Cheney, a fierce critic of then-President Donald Trump, became one of two Republicans to serve on the Congressional Select Committee investigation into how it happened. Time magazine said "Oath and Honor" provides a "rare and damning look inside the Republican Party in the days before and after Jan. 6." To RSVP and receive a Zoom link, please email Fay Iudicello at [email protected] by Thursday, March 14. Those who RSVP should expect to receive the invitation at 9 a.m. on March 16.…
Books & Brunch to discuss Liz Cheney's 'Oath and Honor' at March 16 virtual meeting
The National Press Club's Books & Brunch group will meet via Zoom at noon Saturday, March 16, to discuss Liz Cheney's best-selling "Oath and Honor, A Memoir and A Warning."
Type: News
Named a "Best Book of the Year" by NPR, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and Time, "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" is the story of small town secrets and community that harbored them that emerge after workers unearth a skeleton at the bottom of well in a Pennsylvania town in 1972. To RSVP and receive a Zoom link, please email Fay Iudicello at [email protected] by Thursday, April 18. Those who RSVP should expect to receive the invitation at 9 a.m. on April 20. Want to get a head start on the May book? Books & Brunch will discuss "On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor …
Books & Brunch to discuss "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store" via Zoom, April 20
The National Press Club's Books & Brunch group will meet via Zoom at noon Saturday, April 20, to discuss "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel" by National Book Award-winning author James McBride on Saturday, April 20.
Type: News
Events Team seeks ideas to make the Club the place 'where fun happens'
The Events Team is looking for your ideas to make 2024 the best year ever for members of the National Press Club. We already have great events in mind, including documentary screenings and more cocktails and conversations with noted journalists and communicators, but we would love your input on events you would like to see. Please let co-chairs Brittany Shammas and Cary O'Reilly know your ideas as soon as possible, and help us continue making the Club a place where fun happens! Reach us at [email protected] and [email protected].
Type: News
Journalists continue to face risk and reprisals as they report from wars and hostile environments, and on authoritarian regimes. But former CIA Director John Brennan said they also suffer under more democratic regimes from leaders that disparage journalism. That adds up, Brennan said, to a whole industry is “under assault.” “If we don’t have a vibrant, independent, free press to be able to expose what is happening in the world, we are going to be beset by all the problems that we saw in this film,” Brennan said. Politkovskaya is one of more than 1,800 journalists killed so far this century.…
Movie on slain Russian reporter shows journalism ‘under assault’ in Putin's Russia
Journalism is “under assault” and a second Trump term could be “devastating” for press freedom, panelists said following a Headliners screening Wednesday of "Anna," a movie about the life and death of independent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya survived poisoning, detention and beatings as she reported from Chechnya during the Second Chechen War, before ultimately being killed in her apartment building in 2006.
Type: News