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Participants talked to reporters about the president's proposed budget, assistance to the needy, faith-based programs, and maintaining moral standards in the U.S. through progressive policy measures. Following their remarks they answered questions from the reporters.
Type: Media
Retired AP Reporter Discusses Covering More Than 400 Executions
Retired Associated Press reporter Michael Graczyk may have witnessed more executions than any journalist in American history. Working at the AP’s Houston bureau, one of Graczyk’s assignments was to cover the Texas Department of Corrections. As part of his job, he witnessed hundreds of executions over his nearly 46-year AP career. In this edition of Update-1, Graczyk talks to NPC Broadcast Podcast member Shannon Fisher about the manner in which he approached his unique and heavy role as a reporter, sharing stories of his interactions with the families of the victims, the inmates and the loved…
Type: Media
Commission on Presidential Debates co-chairs to discuss 2020 general election debates at virtual Newsmaker on Sept. 1
The co-chairs of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., Dorothy S. Ridings, and Kenneth Wollack, will discuss the upcoming 2020 general election presidential debates at National Press Club Newsmaker at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 1, This free, one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the media and the general public. Viewers can send their questions for the co-chairs in advance or during the live program via email to [email protected]. Click here to watch the livestream. This will be the first on-…
Type: News
U.S. press leaders to Zimbabwe: Free jailed journalist
The leaders of the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute have called on authorities in Zimbabwe to release Hopewell Chin’ono, an award-winning journalist who has been jailed on trumped-up charges and held in reportedly inhumane conditions, Chin’ono has won the CNN-sponsored African Journalist of the Year award and was named a Nieman Journalism fellow at Harvard University, among many other honors. Now he has become one of several dozen journalists jailed across Africa as a consequence of their work. In Zimbabwe, he is one of scores of people, opposition leaders…
Type: News
Author Soboroff calls forced family separations an ongoing American tragedy
Club President Michael Freedman, left, introduces reporter Jacob Soboroff at a virtual event Thursday. Photo: Alan Kotok NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff said Thursday at a National Press Club Headliners event that he wanted the world to know of children ripped from their families, how some were caged and some were babies in diapers that social workers were ordered not to touch or hold under the President Donald Trump's “zero-tolerance” immigration policy. The reporter described visiting an immigration detention facility in Brownsville, Texas, in June 2018, with only a small…
Type: News
CNN media critic Brian Stelter to discuss bestselling new book "Hoax," Sept. 8
CNN media critic Brian Stelter will discuss his best-selling, new book "Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth" at a National Press Club Virtual Book Rap on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 2 p.m. To download a calendar reminder or access the livestream on Sept, 8, click here. The event is free.
Type: News
NPC Virtual Book Event: Lisa Napoli, "Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News"
How did a former billboard salesman, baseball team owner and America’s Cup winner who hated news end up as the father of 24-hour news? Journalist Lisa Napoli, author of "Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN and the Birth of 24-Hour News," will describe how Ted Turner flipped the switch on media with the creation in 1980 of the first 24-hour news channel at a virtual Headliners Book Event at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22. This one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the media and members of the general public free-of-charge. Viewers can…
Type: Event
NPC Virtual Newsmaker: The Commission on Presidential Debates
All three co-chairs of the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) -- Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., Dorothy S. Ridings, and Kenneth Wollack -- will join National Press Club (NPC) President Michael Freedman to discuss the upcoming 2020 general election presidential debates as part of a special NPC Virtual Newsmaker on Tuesday, September 1 at 3:00 p.m. ET. This one-hour program will stream live on the Club’s website and YouTube Channel, and is accessible to both the media and members of the general public free-of-charge. Viewers can send their questions for the co-chairs in advance or during the…
Type: Event
FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub to keynote Sept. 3 Journalism Institute workshop on unpredictable election scenarios
FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub will deliver the keynote address at the National Press Club Journalism Institute's workshop on possible scenarios for the 2020 presidential election. The workshop will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 3. Registration is now open. Spots are limited. It is designed to bring journalists together with experts to answer questions and discuss scenarios that could develop this fall, and how to cover them. After Weintraub's remarks, participants will join small breakout groups on one of four topics: Voting rights, access and possible…
Type: News
Harry S. Truman’s grandson to highlight Club's commemoration of end of World War II on Sept. 2
Japan officially surrenders, ending World War II, on the battleship USS Missouri. Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of President Harry S. Truman, will speak as part of the National Press Club’s commemoration of Japan’s official surrender on the battleship USS Missouri 75 years ago on Wednesday, Sept. 2. The surrender ended World War II. This one-hour program will stream live at 7 p.m.on the Club website and on its YouTube Channel. It is free and accessible to both the media and members of the general public. Viewers are invited to submit their questions in advance or during the livestream by…
Type: News