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Last chance to reserve for tonight's special Kalb Report featuring Gemini and Apollo astronaut Michael Collins
Michael Collins, one of the three astronauts on the mission to land a man on the moon 50 years ago, will be Marvin Kalb’s guest on a special edition of The Kalb Report Monday, April 15, at 7 p.m. in the National Press Club Ballroom. Admission is free, but seats are limited. Reserve online or at the front desk. Collins flew the space capsule around the moon as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the surface for “one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind” and then reconnected with the capsule to return safely to Earth. Kalb calls the flight, which gripped the entire world in…
Type: News
Military Base Closings
Mr. Courter, chairman of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission, discussed the commission's upcoming report on recommended base closings.
Type: Media
A clam bake and jazz -- a double feature at the Reliable Source, April 25
The National Press Club's Reliable Source restaurant will combine two events -- its annual Clam Bake Buffet and another of its series of Jazz Nights -- for what promises to be a gala evening Thursday, April 25. The "Can't Wait for Summer" buffet will be served from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Menu below.) The jazz, featuring prominent vocalist Renee Tannenbaum and her trio, starts at 6 p.m. A regular performer in such Washington venues as Blues Alley, Mr. Henry’s, Bistrot Lepic and the Smithsonian, Tannenbaum recently completed a tour in Europe where she performed in Prague and Rome. Cost is $25…
Type: News
Three days left to enter your best aviation, space, defense coverage in Journalism Contest
There's still time, but not much. The deadline is three days away -- Monday, April 15 -- for journalists who report and write about aviation, aerospace and defense to enter their best work from 2018 in the National Press Club’s annual journalism contest. Entrants will compete for the Michael A. Dornheim Award, one of the awards in the Journalism Congest. It is presented in honor of the late Michael Dornheim, a longtime reporter and editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. The recipient must be a working journalist writing about aerospace, defense, the airline industry or…
Type: News
Learn about upcoming NPC's 'Night Out for Austin Tice' campaign on Update-1 podcast
The current edition of Update-1, the National Press Club's podcast, previews the "Night Out for Austin Tice," the special event the Club plans for Thursday, May 2, to raise reward money for information leading to the safe return of the only American journalist currently being held overseas. In the podcast, Club Executive Director Bill McCarren and Austin's parents, Marc and Debra Tice, join Mike Hempen, Broadcast/Podcast Team co-vice chair to discuss the May 2 event. Tice is an award-winning reporter who was taken hostage in August 2012 while covering the Syrian civil war. The Club is…
Type: News
RFK’s civility, eloquence a lesson for today’s politicians, daughter says
Robert F. Kennedy’s ability to win over hostile crowds and be civil during debates would serve politicians well in the present day, his daughter Kathleen Kennedy Townsend said during a Book Event at the National Press Club Wednesday evening. Townsend said Kennedy’s willingness to take on difficult opponents, like mob bosses or hostile crowds calling for civil rights, showed he wanted to engage with everyone and use civility while doing so. Along with co-author and editor Rick Allen, she discussed their book, “RFK: His Words For Our Times,” which collates Robert Kennedy’s speeches and…
Type: News
Spring cleaning? Clean up on prizes at Pub Quiz, tonight
Rather than getting a jump start on your spring cleaning at home this week, gather your friends for food, drinks and trivia, and clean up instead on prizes at the National Press Club's monthly Pub Quiz tonight Thursday, April 11, in the Truman Lounge at 7 p.m. Don’t have a team? Fear not, we’ll team you up. A monthly staple of the Club, Pub Quiz is a great opportunity to gather with friends and make new ones over food and drinks. For more information on Pub Quiz and other upcoming events, contact Mesfin Mekonen at [email protected]. or call 202-662-7443.
Type: News
House and Bar Team to meet Monday
The National Press Club's House and Bar Team will meet at noon Monday, April 15, in the John Cosgrove Memorial Lounge. Please note this is one week later than the usual meeting date on the second Monday of the month. The team is recruiting new members, with the goal of adding a representative from every other Club committee to broaden the input we receive from members. The team's mission is to make recommendations to the Club president on its physical facility, menus, ambience and House Rules. If interested in joining the team, send an email to [email protected].
Type: News
Attention procrastinators: Today is the last day to submit your entries for the Club's annual journalism contest
The time is at hand to get those entries in to the National Press Club's annual journalism contest. The deadline is Monday, April 15. The best journalism from 2018 -- in such areas as politics, breaking news, broadcast news, consumer news, foreign coverage, use of online news techniques and news photos -- should be entered in the contest. Most of the categories have cash prizes and some offer a year of free membership in the Club. Details of the prizes are here. The fee is $60 for each entry, but there is no charge for Club members. Entrants are encouraged to use the online entry method, but…
Type: News
Freed photojournalist to offer insights on press freedom issues in Bangladesh, tonight
Bangladeshi photojournalist Shahidul Alam will speak to the National Press Club’s Freedom of the Press Team tonight, Thursday, April 11, at 6 p.m., on the state of press freedom in Bangldesh including his arrest last year for speaking to international media about public protests. All Club members are invited to attend the free event, which will be held in the Cosgrove Lounge. Register online. Alam was arrested in 2018 by the Bangladeshi government for making “provocative” statements in an interview to Al Jazeera about protests in the country sparked by a bus accident that killed school…
Type: News