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Press Club Member Tom Young Discusses New Novel in Latest Update-1 Podcast
National Press Club member Tom Young has made a successful transition from journalism to fiction writing, leveraging his journalistic skills to craft compelling narratives. In the latest Update-1 episode, Young talks with Broadcast Podcast co-chair Adam Konowe about a new book he has coming out, "The Mapmaker," a World War II novel set within the French Resistance. Resistance fighters Charlotte and Phillippe, an American woman and a Frenchman, brave death or worse to evade the Gestapo and get critical information to the Allies. Young also talks about his career, beginning as a journalist and…
Type: Media
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Natalie Jacobsen, moderator and co-lead of the Member-Author Team, is a director of marking & communications at Airlink. After graduating from the University of Oregon Journalism School, she lived and worked in media and correspondence in Japan, and later in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she reported on the events surrounding the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally. She leads writing workshops throughout Northern Virginia and Washington for aspiring authors.
Jody Beck is the author of Your Loving Son Ty: A World War II Story of Hope and Horror in the Pacific. Beck was a reporter for the Washington Star, an assignment manager for WRC-TV (NBC-4), taught journalism at the University of Maryland-College Park, and was the director of the Scripps Howard Foundation’s Semester in Washington internship program. She earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland-College Park, both in journalism.
Lucy Colback is a journalist, conference speaker and aspiring author. She has written financial commentary for the Financial Times’ Lex column as well as features for FT publications including the FT Weekend. She left FT in 2017 to travel the world interviewing WWII survivors and is currently compiling a book of their stories. Prior to becoming a journalist, she worked in finance, focusing on Asian equities in roles including equity research sales and as an analyst and investor for companies such as Schroders and Merrill Lynch. She has had a long association with China and the Asian region.…
Noël-Marie Fletcher is the author of the award-winning Reporting the Nuremberg Trials: How Journalists Covered Live Nazi Trials & Executions. She started her journalism career in California and moved to Hong Kong where she covered the High Court for the Hong Kong Standard newspaper. She became a foreign correspondent for the Journal of Commerce and travelled throughout Asia before being posted to Beijing as China correspondent. She is a founding member of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China in the PRC and has written extensively for newspapers, magazines and wire services. In 2017,…
Authors to showcase their WWII books at Member-Author Team panel on July 31
The Member-Author Team plans to hold a panel discussion featuring National Press Club authors who have written about World War II on Thursday, July 31, in the Reliable Source’s Cosgrove Lounge. A self-funded dinner from the Reliable Source begins at 5:30 p.m. for in-person attendees, with the program starting at 6:15 p.m. for both in-person and virtual participants. A question-and-answer session with participants follows the moderated discussion. RSVP is required. Each author brings their own expertise on WWII. The panel expects to engage in a discussion on writing and researching the topic…
Type: News
Josh Dawsey is an investigative reporter focused on politics at The Wall Street Journal. He most recently worked as a political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post. He joined the Post in 2017 and covered the White House from 2017 to 2021. He was part of the team of journalists that won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the newspaper’s coverage of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and a team that won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for coverage of the role of the AR-15 in American life. He is also a two-time recipient of the White…
Tyler Pager is a White House correspondent at The New York Times. He previously covered the White House at The Washington Post, where he won the 2022 Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. He graduated as the valedictorian from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and with distinction from the University of Oxford, where he earned a master’s degree in comparative social policy. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Isaac Arnsdorf covers the White House for The Washington Post. His reporting from the scene of the Trump assassination attempt was central to The Post’s coverage that won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting. His first book, “Finish What We Started,” about the MAGA movement since January 6, was published in 2024. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his family.