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Pub Quiz
Join fellow Club members and their guests for trivia, food, drinks, prizes and camaraderie. Pub Quiz is a great opportunity to gather with friends over food and drinks and to meet new friends and members, so gather a team of four and come to the Reliable Source’s Truman Lounge. Veteran Pub Quiz emcee Marc Wojno will be on hand. Space fills up quickly, so be sure to arrive early to grab a table. Don’t have a team? No worries - we’ll team you up. Questions provided by Brainstormer Trivia.
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Join us for a tour of the Club’s Broadcast Operations Center (BOC) at 4 p.m. Friday, June 27. Melanie Ierardi, NPC's Broadcast Operations Assistant Manager, will provide the tour. You will go behind-the-scenes of the magic that the BOC staff performs for Club events as well as satellite media tours, media training, webcasting, and TV and video production. The facility features two studios, two post-production suites and transmission services via satellite, fiber or IP. The studio and its services are available to the public, but this tour is for Club members only. Upon arrival, please gather…
The National Press Club selected Antara Gangwal of San Jose, California, as the winner of its 2025 Julie Schoo Scholarship for Diversity in Journalism. The award totals up to $20,000 over four years from the world’s leading professional organization for journalists. Gangwal, a senior at Leland High School, impressed the judges with her strong writing skills and leadership experience as co-editor-in-chief of her school’s paper and yearbook. She also interned at KALW Public Media and Northern California Public Media where she worked on various podcast episodes.
“Often, U.S. journalism is focused on divisive stories about hatred, crime, and war. But humanity needs hopeful stories, too,” Gangwal said in her application essay. “ As a South Asian woman journalist, I will bring diversity to U.S. journalism by covering stories about marginalized communities reclaiming joy.” In summer 2024, Gangwal participated in the Mosaic Journalism Program, during which she covered issues with the local VTA transit system among other topics. During the previous summer, she was a student reporter at the School of The New York Times, where she reported on climate…
“I realized that I think I was very worried that people would think that she was me,” Reid told the audience in the Holeman Lounge. “I didn't want to write a character that had these tropes of, she's so much more capable than she realizes she is, or some cheap cliche… [T]hen I just thought, you know what? I know who she is.” The book landed on the USA Today best-seller list last week. Canadian-born Reid moved to Iceland in 2003 after meeting Guđni Jóhannesson, a native of Iceland, at Oxford University where they were both studying history.
They married and Reid was building a career as a journalist when, in April 2016, political turmoil in Iceland unexpectedly landed her historian husband in the spotlight. Jóhannesson’s charismatic television appearances commentating on the Panama Papers scandal sparked a public clamor for him to run for office. By June, he had clinched the presidency. “I was all of a sudden thrust on the national stage as somebody's wife,” said Reid. “[A]nd although I'm very proud to be Guđni's wife, it's not my defining characteristic as a human being,” she added. Reid said that while it was an honor to…
Former First Lady of Iceland weaves a tale of murder, diplomacy and Icelandic culture in new novel
“Death on the Island,” the debut novel by Eliza Reid opens with a gaggle of diplomats, a raging storm, and a mysterious death on Iceland's remote, sparsely populated Westman Islands. The murder mystery that unfolds is underscored by themes of gender equality and public servant life understood all too well by the former first lady of Iceland. “I really played with the idea of sometimes how women are underestimated, or that they are put into boxes based on the roles that other people perceive they have,” said Reid in a discussion with National Press Club Vice President Alisa Parenti about her…
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NPC Headliners: "Death on the Island," Eliza Reid
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Best-selling author and former First Lady of Iceland Eliza Reid will discuss "Death on the Island," her debut mystery novel, at a Headliners Book Event on May 22 at 6 p.m. The tale takes readers on a haunting trip to Iceland's Westman Islands where, as a storm rages outside and glasses are raised in a toast, the deputy ambassador falls dead. Trapped by the weather, the remaining guests grow suspicious of one another as secrets are revealed, and the ambassador's wife begins to wonder whether they have all witnessed a murder. Reid, an acclaimed writer and co-founder of the Iceland Writers…
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