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Lithuanian Embassy hosts Club members at latest Embassy Night
Members of the National Press Club's International Correspondents Committee held their latest Embassy Night on Sept. 17 at the residence of Lithuanian Ambassador Audra Plepytė, who has represented her country in the U.S. since 2024. Photo: Natalie Jacobsen Members of the National Press Club's International Correspondents Committee held their latest Embassy Night on Sept. 17 at the residence of Lithuanian Ambassador Audra Plepytė, who has represented her country in the U.S. since 2024. National Press Club President Emily Wilkins accompanied the ICC members, and shared remarks alongside…
Type: News
Dinner entrees include prime rib, pot roast, hake and chicken at tonight's buffet
Was that a nip in the air earlier this week? Could the seasons be about to turn? Celebrate fall with a dinner buffet accompanied by a glass of red wine and music by popular vocalist Renee Tannenbaum on Thursday, Sept. 26, at the National Press Club’s Reliable Source. The 14th floor restaurant begins serving dinner at 5:30 p.m. Music starts at 6 p.m. Reservations are recommended. To reserve your place, please contact the Reliable Source at [email protected] or call (202) 662-7443. The dinner with a glass of red wine is $45 for Club members and $55 for non-members, plus tax and gratuity. Menu Salad…
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McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism application deadline, Oct. 6
Club members are invited to apply for the fall 2024 McGraw Fellowship for Business Journalism at the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Applications are due Oct. 6. The McGraw Fellowship provides up to $15,000 and editorial support for experienced journalists to produce deeply reported investigative or enterprise stories on critical economic, financial and business topics. Previous McGraw fellows have explored a wide variety of issues -- and you don't need to be a business reporter to apply. Many fellows have been generalists, or cover areas such as…
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Young Members Social
Club members must be logged into their press.org account to register for this event.
Raise your glass and join us for an evening of delightful conversations and libations at our Young Members Social. Club members who are 35 years old or younger are invited to connect, unwind, and celebrate the spirit of the National Press Club community. Expand your professional network in a relaxed atmosphere. Forge connections with like-minded individuals across the journalism and communication industries. Discover new opportunities and collaborations.
Type: Event
Wanted: active journalists and communicators to mentor younger members
The Club mentorship program is seeking additional applications for new mentors. We're specifically looking for members who are working journalists or communicators. The program launched earlier this year with about 25 pairings but there are still about 20 people who signed up to be mentees who we haven't yet been able to connect with a mentor. The basics: You would be partnered with a fellow journalist and communicator at a different and earlier stage of their career. What else? It's totally up to the two people who get partnered up to establish their relationship, from the frequency of…
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Photo Team to hear about local bird photography at Oct. 9 meeting
Birds make some of the best wildlife photo subjects, and can be found in your own backyard. The next National Press Club Photography Team meeting, open to all Club members, features María-Elena Montero, vice president of programming at the D.C. Bird Alliance, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, in the Cosgrove Lounge. Registration is required. Barred owl. Photo: David Cohen for D.C. Bird Alliance The D.C. Bird Alliance seeks to build people-powered, bird-friendly communities throughout the Washington area and is an affiliate of the National Audubon Society. In addition to advocacy and education, the…
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Freelancer Team Meeting
The National Press Club freelancers' group is an opportunity for members to go-it alone, together. Our monthly meetings via Zoom offer freelancers a chance to talk shop, meet editors and hear from experts to help strengthen their business.
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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…
National Press Club awards Mississippi Today, a nonprofit newsroom, with its highest press freedom award
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Press Club is honoring Mississippi Today — a nonprofit, non-partisan newsroom based in Jackson, Mississippi — with its highest honor for press freedom, the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. Mississippi Today is currently involved in a legal case to protect privileged documents used in producing a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation and named in an ensuing defamation case brought by the state’s former governor. The case has wide-ranging implications for press freedom in the United States, including journalist-source protections. “In a country that holds…
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