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Photos: NPC Headliner with Families of Gazan Hostages
The families of seven American hostages held in Gaza spoke at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker event on Sept. 18, 2024. The families emphasized their ongoing pursuit of a resolution that ensures the safe return of all hostages. They also addressed the urgent need for international pressure on Hamas and reflected on the past year, sharing the challenges they've faced and their tireless efforts to bring their loved ones home.
Type: Media
Tom Squitieri, 71
Tom Squitieri, an award-winning reporter and former National Press Club vice president, died Sept. 1. He was 71. A native of Pennsylvania, Tom started his career in Washington in the 1970s at the Thomson Newspapers bureau in the National Press Building. He was a National Press Club officer in the mid-1980s and served as vice president in 1987. A remembrance will be held on Oct. 5 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Palisades Community Church in Washington. Read his obituary here.
Type: News
Friday NPCJI webinar: “Building Bridges: Success stories in closing the gap in public health and care systems”
Public health and health care delivery may seem to go hand in hand to the public they exist to serve. But partnerships for the public good often are complicated by a patchwork of elaborate administrative practices, ownership, funding models, and other systemic barriers resulting in less effective results despite a shared mission of serving healthy, thriving communities. Knocking down the silos to collaborative health systems that drive improved outcomes is vital to addressing our most pressing public health issues. Join us over Zoom on Friday, Sept. 27, at 1 p.m. ET to learn from experts…
Type: News
Run For Austin Virtual 5K
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Sign up today to #RunForAustin, a virtual 5K race on Saturday, November 12, 2022. Click here to register. Austin Tice is a Marine combat veteran, a seventh-generation Texan from Houston, a graduate of Georgetown University, and an award-winning journalist who has been unjustly detained in Syria since 2012. After seeing reports of the refugee crisis unfolding in Syria, Austin picked up his camera and headed straight to the front lines as a freelance reporter. He delivered important dispatches to The Washington Post and McClatchy before he was detained at a checkpoint near Damascus on August 14…
Type: Event
Speechwriter Terry Szuplat has the secret to "Say It Well"
What is an average American's greatest fear? It isn't sharks or spiders -- it's public speaking. Terry Szuplat, former speechwriter to famous orators including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barrack Obama, claims public speaking is his biggest fear, too. It used to grip him so tightly, and became such a fixation while researching and compiling his experiences for his novel, "Say It Well: Find Your Voice, Speak Your Mind, Inspire Any Audience," that Szuplat discussed the deep-seated fear with psychologists, seeking answers. He learned that public speaking is a primal fear,…
Type: News
Last chance: photo exhibit closes Sept. 30
The show includes thisphoto by Lorraine Woellert from a series showing life on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. You have only a few more days to catch the annual National Press Clubmembers photography exhibit, now on display in the Club's main lobby.The 25th annual show presenting 205 digital images and print photos from 53 members closes Monday, Sept. 30. NPC's Photography Team devotes a segment of the show to honor Marshall Cohen, who started the event in 1999, along with Christy Bowe and Jim Dandridge, who like Cohen have taken part in every one of the 25 annual exhibits. This part…
Type: News
The outlet won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for its investigation into a $77 million welfare scandal that revealed how the state’s former governor, Phil Bryant, used his office to benefit his friends and family. Bryant then sued Mississippi Today and its CEO Mary Margaret White in July 2023, claiming that the series defamed him. Editor-in-chief Adam Ganucheau and reporter Anna Wolfe were added as defendants in May 2024, according to an editor’s note on the outlet’s website. On June 6, 2024, Mississippi Today appealed a county judge’s order to turn over privileged documents in relation to the…