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Get started early on St. Patrick's Day celebrating at Reliable Source on March 14
Members of the National Press Club and their guests are invited to a pre-St. Patrick’s Day buffet and celebration on Thursday, March 14, starting at 5:30 p.m. for special food and music, and a performance by popular guitarist Mat Palombo at 6:30 p.m. The price of the buffet is $25 for Club members and $30 for nonmembers plus tax and gratuity.Reservations are encouraged for this typically sold-out event. Please contact 202-662-7443 or e-mail [email protected]. Menu Appetizers Fresh & smoked seafood, fennel and potato chowder Irish soda bread Salads Irish red potato salad with olives,…
Type: News
Sho Chandra, Bloomberg News reporter, National Press Club volunteer, 53
Shobhana Chandra, an economics reporter in the Bloomberg News Washington bureau and a National Press Club member for more than 13 years, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, following a flight from India to the United States. Chandra, 53, was in India on an annual trip to visit family. She developed a blood clot in her leg on the journey home and collapsed shortly after landing at Dulles International Airport, according to her friend and former colleague Vineeta Anand. Known as “Sho,” Chandra joined the Club in June 2005. Since 2012, she has served as one of eight editors of the Wire, the Club's…
Type: News
Press Club looking for the best political writing, analysis from 2018
The National Press Club wants to see the best political reporting and writing from 2018 for the annual journalism contest. The best work will be recognized with the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis. This award is named in memory of Lee Walczak, a Washington editor, bureau chief and White House correspondent who worked for Bloomberg News and Business Week. Entries should be one article or a series of no more than three articles on a consistent topic. Judges will consider entries that explain why things happen, putting them in context and look at what’s likely to happen next. The…
Type: News
NPC's Events Team seeks new members for initial meeting on March 5 at 5:30 p.m.
The Events Team is actively seeking contributors to help make the National Press Club a fun and informative place to be. The first meeting under its new leadership is scheduled for Tuesday, March 5, at 5:30 p.m. in the Cosgrove Lounge of the Reliable Source. If you are interested in joining, please come by. If you can’t make the meeting, please still feel free to offer ideas using this online form and let us know when you are available. We have few ideas in the works already but we welcome other activities. If you want to submit an idea to organize and produce, please use the same online form…
Type: News
Investigative Journalism
Mr. Bonner discussed the current state of investigative journalism in a luncheon address. He had conducted an investigation into atrocities conducted in Central America during the conflict between the Sandinistas and the Contras in the 1980's. Following his prepared remarks, Mr. Bonner responded to questions from reporters.
Type: Media
A chance to honor the best, most creative online journalism
The National Press Club wants those who have done the most innovative online journalism in 2018 to enter their work in the competition for the Joan M. Friedenberg Online Journalism Award. The winner of this Club award will have done original reporting and have taken advantage of online technology, such as interactive databases, primary-source interviews, and accompanying charts and graphs, in order to provide a thorough and graphically-attractive report. This award is intended to recognize the best journalism that uses online technology to provide a more compelling report than a print or…
Type: News
Experts plan to review 2018 hurricane season, look ahead to 2019 season, March 5
With another hurricane season in the books, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hurricane-forecasting expert Dr. Gerry Bell and MIT disaster-resilience expert Jeremy Gregory plan to discuss the impact of the 2018 storms and how to prepare for the 2019 season at a National Press Club Newsmakers press conference at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 5, in the Bloomberg Room. The news conference is open to credentialed media and Club members free of charge, however, registration is required. Bell, a hurricane climate specialist and research meteorologist at NOAA's Climate Prediction…
Type: News
NPC in History: The Greatest
“The Mouth that Roared” "The Louisville Lip” “The greatest athlete of all time.” Whatever anyone thinks about Muhammad Ali, he knew how to capture a crowd. He appeared at the National Press Club on Aug. 27, 1976, with boxer Ken Norton one month before their heavyweight championship bout at Yankee Stadium. At the head table were boxer Joe Frazier, comedian Dick Gregory and boxing promoter Don King. Trying to keep control of the luncheon was Club Vice President Robert Farrell of McGraw Hill. If Club members thought they were coming for a back and forth between the boxers about the upcoming…
Type: News
Top journalism on aviation, aerospace, defense eligible for Michael A. Dornheim award
Those who report and write about aviation, aerospace and defense are encouraged to enter their best work from 2018 in the National Press Club’s annual journalism contest. The Michael A. Dornheim Award 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 aerospace science and engineering. The winner gets a $1,000 prize. The Club, a national leader among journalism organizations, encourages those who write on such…
Type: News
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post editor Maraniss to discuss blacklisting of his journalist father in book talk, May 17
Journalist David Maraniss, whose coverage of Bill Clinton as a presidential candidate earned a Pulitzer Prize, will discuss his latest book, “A Good American Family,” at a National Press Club Headliners breakfast on May 17. Doors open at 8:30 a.m. with a light breakfast of coffee, tea, muffins and pastries. The program begins promptly at 9 a.m. Maraniss, an associate editor at The Washington Post, has written 11 books, including biographies of Barack Obama, Vince Lombardi, Al Gore and Roberto Clemente. In his twelfth book, he turns his journalist’s eye on his own family. To reserve your…
Type: News