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Member reminder: Update your mailing address
National Press Club members need to check their account to ensure that their mailing address is correct. Addresses need to be updated by the end of the year to guarantee members receive a NEW membership card. To enhance the security of the Club and streamline membership processes, the Club is implementing a new check-in and arrival procedure effective March 3. “Given the rising threats against journalists, this is part of our commitment to ensuring the safety of all members and employees—similar to security measures in many buildings across Washington, D.C.,” wrote NPC President Emily Wilkins…
Type: News
The winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Wilmington's Lie gives an account of a white supremacist strategy to take back the North Carolina state legislature in 1898 "by ballot or bullet or both" and then leverage a controversial editorial on consensual mixed race relationships written by Alexander Manly, the editor of an African American newspaper, The Record, to foment a "race riot" that would collapse Wilmington's multi-racial government. The campaign included rallies, sensational newspaper editorials and fabricated news stories, and ended in a coup during which…
Books & Brunch schedules discussion of 'Wilmington's Lie' on Jan. 18
At its first meeting 2025, Books & Brunch plans to discuss Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by Pulitzer Prize winner David Zucchino. The meeting is scheduled for noon on Jan. 18, 2025, via Zoom.
Type: News
American Legion Post 20 to discuss media/military issues at the National Press Club, Jan. 8
American Legion Post 20 member and Military Veterans in Journalism founder Zack Baddorf plans to lead a panel discussion on various media/military issues at the group's Jan. 8 meeting at the National Press Club. All Club members are invited to the luncheon meeting at noon in the McClendon Room of the NPC's Reliable Source. The buffet will be available at a cost of $23. For the luncheon, the Club asks attendees to combine everything into one bill. Attendees are asked to bring cash. Cash collected in excess of the bill will be given to the wait staff as a tip. Guests are welcome. Topics are…
Type: News
Next Communicator-Journalist roundtable dinner on Jan. 15
The National Press Club Communicator Team invites communicator and journalist members to its next roundtable dinner at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 15, in the Cosgrove Lounge. The October dinner was sold out, so make plans now to attend this next one, and get your reservation in. These dinners are held quarterly. By sharing concerns, ideas, approaches and strategies, communicators and journalists can help each other be more effective in their roles. There is no cost for the event itself, but you will need to buy your dinner at the Reliable Source, so make a reservation at [email protected] and…
Type: News
NPC Headliners: Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Breakfast on Tuesday, October 29. McDonough will deliver an update on the state of America’s veterans and their families. McDonough was sworn in as the 11th Secretary of Veterans Affairs on February 9, 2021, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and has worked to reduce homelessness and enhance medical care for America's veterans. During his confirmation hearing, Secretary McDonough testified to Congress, “I will work tirelessly to build and restore VA's trust as the premier agency for ensuring the…
Type: Event
Tour of the Club's Broadcast Operations Center
You must be a NPC member to attend and registration is required.
Join us for a tour of the Club’s Broadcast Operations Center (BOC) at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17. Randy Hall, NPC's Director of Facilities and Media, 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 in the 13th…
Type: Event
My wife Alice and I had front-row seats in the press stands at the 39th President's inauguration on Jan. 20, 1977, the last inaugural to be held on the east portico of the Capitol. She was very pregnant and columnist Robert Novak had to make room for her to sit down. (She delivered our fourth child five days later.) Later that year, Alice had a much closer encounter with Carter - this time at the White House media holiday party in December. After Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter had the first dance in the East Room, Alice tapped his second partner on the shoulder and sailed across the…