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International Correspondents Social
Join your fellow foreign correspondents for cocktails and conversation at the International Correspondents Team's monthly social. This event is open to all National Press Club members who would like to get involved with the International Correspondents Team’s programs, including the press attaché mixer and monthly embassy nights.
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Press Freedom Program Focuses on Deadly Tank Attack on Journalists from Reuters, AFP, Al Jazeera
Contact: Bill McCarren, 202-662-7534 or [email protected] for the Press Freedom Center at the National Press Club News Advisory: UPDATING 3/10: To add that Maya Gebeily and Christina Assi will appear via video Event Program to analyze Oct 13, 2023 attack on journalists from Reuters, Agence France Press and Al Jazeera When 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 12 (Doors Open at 6 p.m.) Where Ballroom, National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C. Who Bill McCarren, Director, Press Freedom Center at the National Press Club (Welcome) Jason Rezaian, Director, Press Freedom…
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Press Freedom Center March 12 panel to analyze 2023 shelling that killed or maimed journalists covering a border conflict
The Press Freedom Center at the National Press Club will present a program March 12 at 6:30 p.m. in the Club's Ballroom that examines the Oct. 13, 2023, attack on journalists from Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Al Jazeera. Speakers include: Bill McCarren, Director, Press Freedom Center at the National Press Club (Welcome) Jason Rezaian, Director, Press Freedom Initiatives, The Washington Post (Moderator) Dylan Collins, Photojournalist for AFP who was wounded in the incident. He is an American citizen. Elie Brakhya, Photojournalist for Al Jazeera, wounded in the incident. Maya Gebeily,…
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Broadcast-Podcast Team's upcoming meetings open to Club members
The National Press Club Broadcast-Podcast Team has its monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 11, at 6 p.m. in the Cosgrove Lounge. Sign up here. The next team meeting after that is on Tuesday, April 15, at 6 p.m. in the Cosgrove Lounge. Sign up here. The Broadcast-Podcast Team serves as a forum for members interested in multimedia journalism, including radio, television, podcasting and digital. All Club members are welcome to join the discussions. The Team meets regularly and also sponsors periodic limited-access informal dinner events that allow Club members and their guests to hear the…
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Deadline extended: Apply now to join the Headliners Team
Do you have some great ideas for speakers for the National Press Club’s signature Headliners events? Do you have some excellent connections to help bring those speakers to the Club? The Headliners Team has space for new members to join to help make 2025 another stellar year highlighting the issues that matter and getting journalists in front of decision-makers and influential figures. “As it becomes tougher to cover our country, we hope to keep the National Press Club an open door for voices that can shed light on important happenings in our country and around the world,” Jen Judson,…
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March 13, 1938: Secretary of State Cordell Hull tells the Club that the maintenance of international law and order is vital to peace. As the world moves toward war, he says, “The crucial issue today is whether these principles will be vitalized and be firmly established as the foundation of an international order or whether international anarchy based on brute force will inundate the world and ultimately sweep away the very basis of civilization." March 14, 1963: Alfred Hitchcock speaks to the press club about his film, The Birds. Club President Bryson Rash of NBC does the honors. See a…
March 15, 1974: King Hussein of Jordan tells the Club that a new political climate makes it a good time for Middle East peace. March 8, 1994: Eduard Shevardnadze, who had been foreign affairs minister for the Soviet Union and a strong ally of Mikhail Gorbachev but is now the leader of his native Georgia, makes an impassioned speech for his small, embattled country which was facing huge economic problems as meddlesome Russians encouraged separatists to split it into even smaller pieces. He says through an interpreter that while Georgia is tiny, its fate is indicative of what will happen in the…
What do Eleanor Roosevelt and Angelina Jolie have in common?
Dip down anywhere in the National Press Club’s 117-year history and we can find remarkable stories about events at our Club that contributed to American, world and social history. The Club’s History and Heritage team is highlighting just a few each month so our members can appreciate the role the Club has played for well over a century as the place where news happens. Here are a few from March: March 6, 1933: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt holds a news conference just for women journalists, the first of hundreds she held weekly in her effort to promote women Washington correspondents so they…
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