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Nuclear Terrorism Issues
Former Senator Sam Nunn, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, talked about national security and nuclear terrorism issues. He was a former Democratic senator from Georgia and Armed Services Committee chairman. He founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative with broadcasting executive Ted Turner in 2001 to raise awareness about the dangers of weapons of mass destruction. As a senator, Nunn worked with Senator Richard Lugar in passing legislation to help Russia and the former Soviet republics secure and destroy their excess nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Following his remarks he…
Type: Media
On the Road to Democracy: The Czech Republic
The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, talked about relations between the U.S. and Czech Republic, his meeting with President Bush, and democratic movements in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. President Klaus was in the U.S. to promote his book On the Road to Democracy: The Czech Republic from Communism to a Free Society. During his remarks he answered questions from the audience.
Type: Media
Register, then attend Club's fall general membership meeting virtually, NOON TODAY
The National Press Club fall general membership meeting will be held via webcast at noon on noon today, Oct. 16. Be sure to register in advance. Meeting business will include: How the Club is continuing to operate during the COVID-19 pandemic The "doubleheader" offer for members to pay their dues for 2021 in advance and have all of 2022 covered New young members through partnerships with Howard University and "Report for America" Scholarship recipients Upcoming awards judging Our "Help the Heroes" initiative Recent and upcoming events, including the Nov. 18 Fourth Estate Awards honoring…
Type: News
Club/CBS series highlights a Murrow Girl among the Boys
Mary Marvin Breckinridge was one of the Murrow Boys covering World War II for CBS Radio. The story of how Edward R. Murrow and his team of correspondents invented broadcast news at CBS Radio during World War II is the stuff of legends. Lesser known is the fact that there was a "Girl" among the "Murrow Boys." As we continue our 2020 National Press Club/CBS News partnership audio series commemorating the centennial of radio, correspondent Sam Litzinger remembers Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson. She was the lone woman among the Murrow Boys of World War II. Born on Oct. 2, she would have…
Type: News
Photos: NPC Debate Filing Center, 9/29/20
Type: Media
Communicators Team to host virtual sessions on working with the media, members of Congress, Oct. 1 and Oct. 8
Learn how to enhance and build relationships with the media and members of Congress during two separate virtual professional development sessions the National Press Club’s Communicators Team has lined up. Tomorrow, Oct. 1, at 12 p.m. Ed Barks, a former member of the Club’s board of governors and an experienced communications strategy consultant, will lead a discussion on how to work with the media to achieve critical business and public policy goals. Barks is expected to provide tips for developing magnetic messaging, granting interviews and engaging audiences on digital media. A former…
Type: News
Journalism Institute offers program on memoir writing with authors of 'Fix What You Can' and 'Love You Hard,' Oct. 2
If you think you have a memoir in you waiting to be written, participate in the National Press Club Journalism Institute professional development program on Oct. 2 to find out how two authors put theirs to paper. How do you report on your own experiences and fact-check them? What does it take to turn your memories into a memoir? When is the right time to write a memoir about your life? How do you determine what you don’t know and decide what to leave out? And when, and how, do you tell the people closest to you about their role in the narrative? These issues will be discussed in the 45-minute…
Type: News
TODAY, NOON: Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov to speak on human rights and press freedom in Russia, Belarus
Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov, the former World Chess Champion turned writer and political activist, will deliver a live address on the state of human rights and press freedom in his native Russia, as well as the related crackdown in Belarus, at a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker on Friday, Oct. 9, at noon. To download a calendar reminder or join the livestream on Oct. 9, click here. 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…
Type: News
NPC Newsmaker: Former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov, the former World Chess Champion turned writer and political activist, will deliver a live address on the state of human rights and press freedom in his native Russia, as well as the related crackdown ongoing in Belarus, at a National Press Club Virtual Newsmaker on Friday, October 9 at 12:00 p.m. ET. "The free world, including its media, has a role to play both in how it engages with and covers the un-free world and in how its leaders and citizens can push back against the rising authoritarian trend,” said Kasparov. “With media now global and instantaneous, hostile…
Type: Event
Moment of Silence for Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
The National Press Club will hold a moment of silence in observance of the second anniversary of the murder of Saudi journalist and Washington Post Global Opinions contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi on Friday, October 2 at 2:00 p.m. ET. Khashoggi, who was openly critical of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in his columns for the Washington Post, was ambushed by 15 Saudi government officials inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and killed and dismembered on October 2, 2018. National Press Club President Michael Freedman will lead fellow Club members, staff and other…
Type: Event