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CBS News, National Press Club produce documentary commemorating the centennial of radio
One hundred years ago today, on August 20, 1920, WWJ Radio in Detroit (then known as station 8MK and owned by The Detroit News) launched the age of electronic media, broadcasting a series of musical selections by connecting a megaphone to a phonograph and sending the sounds through its transmitter to some 30 homes with receiving sets throughout the city. With that, the station launched the first regularly scheduled programming on radio in America. Less than three months later, on November 2, 1920, radio’s ‘big bang’ occurred when station KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast live coverage of the…
Type: News
Club launches new Career Center
Today the National Press Club unveiled its new Career Center. Featuring an interactive and customizable job board and valuable resources for both job seekers and employers, the NPC Career Center is designed to help journalists and communications professionals find new employment opportunities, and serve as a one-stop recruiting ground for industry employers. Using the Club's Career Center platform, registered job seekers can post resumes, cover letters, and create personalized job alerts and career profiles that lead employers directly to them. In addition to the job board, users can access…
Type: News
NPC in History: Gram Robinson, women’s suffrage and the Women’s National Press Club
National Women’s Party leader Alice Paul emerges from the Lafayette Square headquarters holding a banner that hurls President Wilson’s World War I rallying cry back at him. It is a Wilson quote that reads: “The time has come to conquer or submit. For us there is but one choice. We have made it.” Photo: Library of Congress At 21, Alice Gram Robinson was arrested while protesting for women’s suffrage in front of the White House, held at the Occoquan Workhouse where she took part in a hunger strike, and two years later helped found the Women’s National Press Club before launching a six-…
Type: News
Registration closes Friday noon for NPC September Step Challenge
The National Press Club is now registering teams for the National Press Club September Step Challenge. All registration fees will go to the NPC Staff Support Fund, which helps staff members who have been furloughed due to a slowdown in business operations caused by the coronavirus pandemic. To participate members will need to form teams, wear a step tracking device throughout the competition and submit their tally. Register team captains and members and find more information online. Registration closes at noon Friday, Aug. 28. Prizes will be awarded in the following categories: Top…
Type: News
NBC's Soboroff to share account of the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, Aug. 27
In June of 2018, award-winning NBC News and MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff traded his mic and camera for a small blue notebook and walked into a large detention facility where 1,500 migrant boys were being held after being separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. The notes he took that day, and the conversations he would later have with affected families and inside sources, formed the basis of his harrowing New York Times bestseller “Separated: Inside an American Tragedy.” On Thursday, August 27, Soboroff will share what he has learned from the children and families he has…
Type: News
NPC Virtual Book Event: Max Brooks, "Devolution"
Bestselling author Max Brooks will deliver a talk entitled, “Zombies, Bigfoot, and COVID: How Fiction Can Prepare Us For Disasters,” at a National Press Club Headliners book event on Thursday, Sept. 3 at 1 p.m. Brooks is perhaps best known for reinventing the modern zombie genre with his "Zombie Survival Guide" and his novel, "World War Z." More than a mere horror tale, "World War Z" builds on Brooks’ extensive research in pandemic planning – which Brooks says the Trump administration largely ignored in its response to COVID-19 – as well as describing how a pandemic threat can transform…
Type: Event
2004 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Writers, photographers and cartoonists who were awarded a 2004 Pulitzer Prize talked about the techniques and career investment that helped them win that honor. They also talked about the state of journalism and several recent questions about journalistic ethics. They also answered questions from the audience.
Type: Media
Bolton criticizes Trump, calls press biased toward left
Club President Freedman offers the National Press Club mug to author John Bolton. Photo: Alan Kotok Coupling his criticism of President Trump with a sharp critique of press campaign coverage, John Bolton, former national security adviser to Trump, told a virtual National Press Club audience Tuesday he will vote for neither Trump nor Joe Biden but rather for a “yet undetermined Republican conservative.” Bolton was interviewed about his new book, "The Room Where it Happened," by Club President Michael Freedman as part of the Club's Headliner programs. When Freeedman asked Bolton for his…
Type: News
Journalist panel to describe antiracist journalism at Institute program, Friday
As racism and the treatment of people of color has surged to the forefront of conversations, against the backdrop of a pandemic that disproportionately affects them, journalists face questions about objectivity, inequity, and inclusivity. Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute for “What would antiracist journalism look like?” featuring Leah Donnella of NPR’s Code Switch, Cassie Haynes of Resolve Philly, Robert Samuels of The Washington Post and and Juliet Beverly of BrainFacts.org. Registration is open for this program, which will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Friday,…
Type: News
Runners, supporters needed for Foley Freedom Run on Oct. 17 to promote press freedom
Looking for a way to exercise while also supporting press freedom? The National Press Club is recruiting runners and/or walkers to join the club team to raise money to support the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation. The virtual Sixth Annual Foley Freedom Run will take place at a venue of your choosing on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, from 10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Registration is $40, which includes a t-shirt. Proceeds go to the club’s goal of raising $2,500 for the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation. The foundation helps advocate for the freedom of all Americans held hostage abroad and promotes the…
Type: News