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Creating effective veteran policy
Creating effective veteran policy: Using international experience. Part 2 Join us for the second conference on veteran policy in Ukraine, featuring collaboration between experts from Ukraine and the United States. The participants will discuss medical, psychological, and socio-economic adaptation of war veterans in Ukraine, with Vitalii Hersak, head of the NGO “Vilni ta Virni” presenting the action plan “Building Bridges: Veteran Policy in the U.S. and Ukraine” that outlines pathways to enhance cooperation between the United States and Ukraine in supporting veterans. Agenda of the…
Type: Event
TONIGHT: A new season (Spring!), new questions but the same fun at Pub Quiz
With Easter over and spring starting up in D.C., the National Press Club’s Truman Lounge will be hopping this evening with food, drinks and trivia as Pub Quiz kicks off springtime activities. With our friends at Brainstormer Trivia again creating the questions. Pub Quiz for April is set for 6:30 p.m. in the Club’s Truman Lounge. For 20 years, Pub Quiz has been a monthly staple at the Club and Brainstormer Trivia, which has been supplying those fun and challenging questions, is back with the latest and greatest questions -- from current events, sports, entertainment and everything in between…
Type: News
Press Conference with Rep. Shri Thanedar
Type: Event
In reporting instances of sexual assault, the media should seek out truth and not automatically take the word of any one individual for granted, yet also make survivors feel safe and avoid reporting on such a sensitive issue strictly for publicity, panelists said following a screening of the documentary film “Victim/Suspect” at the National Press Club April 11. Rachel de Leon, an investigative journalist with the Center for Investigating Reporting, co-producer of the film with Nancy Schwartzman, said that in the film's study legal cases in which sexual assault victims were charged with filing…
“They actually were not doing their job,” said de Leon. Often, she said, there was no reason for the journalists to do a story other than to sensationalize the issue. In making the film, she said she felt her role was to hold them accountable and push back on this idea that just because you can do the story you should do the story.” Two other panelists at the event, Emma Mannion and Dyanie Bermeo, survivors of sexual assault who were coerced by police into denying their assault ever happened, said they appreciated de Leon’s approach. De Leon and her team’s objectivity, they said, made them…
Wednesday webinar: Standards editors to discuss how journalists can build, support culture of credibility
Strong journalistic standards and systems can help to chart the course for combatting mis- and disinformation while rebuilding trust in the news media. Register now to join a discussion on this vital topic on Wednesday, April 17, among standards editors at national news outlets, who will raise the curtain on the important discussions that guide their outlets’ coverage. From rigorously fact-checking reporting to framing global conflicts to language choices and beyond, the editors will share best practices and considerations journalists should make while serving the public. The virtual…
Type: News
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz to release study on press freedom, democracy and economic development, Wednesday
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz will release the findings of a new study on the relationship between press freedom and advancing democratic values and economic development at a National Press Club Headliners Coffee and Conversation at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 17, in the First Amendment Lounge. Stiglitz, a professor at Columbia University and the former chief economist at the World Bank, won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 jointly with George Akerlof and A. Michael Spence for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Recently, Stiglitz has weighed in on the…
Type: News
The Peak 65 Economic Impact Forum
On April 18 at the National Press Club, ALI will release The Peak 65 Economic Impact Study top findings to the national, business, and industry/trade media. In this definitive study commissioned by the ALI Retirement Income Institute, Robert J. Shapiro, the former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs, examines the economic impact of the greatest surge of retirement age Americans in U.S. history, with more than 4.1M baby boomers turning 65 each year between 2024 and 2027, and finds that a majority of Americans who will turn age 65 between 2024 and 2030 are not financially prepared…
Type: Event
Apply now for NPC mentorship program; mixer to kick it off set for April 30
The National Press Club mentorship program is accepting applications for both new mentors and mentees. We’re looking for journalists/communicators interested in being partnered with a fellow journalist/communicator at a different stage of their career. Mentors are now in high demand. Please fill out the application survey to the best of your ability and we’ll do our best to find someone who we can connect you with. That link is above and also here. Once a match is made you are free to begin meeting and communicating at your convenience and in whatever format and styles you prefer. We’ll host…
Type: News