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Club closed Dec. 25 for Christmas Day
The National Press Club will be closed on Friday, Dec. 25, Christmas. The Club also will close the following Friday, Jan. 1, 2021, New Year's Day.
Type: News
D.C. government order temporarily ends in-person dining at Club due to coronavirus
The National Press Club has been forced to suspend indoor dining under new rules from D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser designed to control the spread of the coronavirus. In addition, non-essential business activities will be suspended until Jan. 15. To comply with this order, the Club will be taking the following actions: Temporary suspension of indoor dining for restaurants and banquets. Take-out and delivery will continue to be available from the Club’s online store with pick-up curbside. There will be no food consumed at the Club in any dining room or lounge until the mayor’s order is rescinded.…
Type: News
TONIGHT: Virtual Book Rap features photos of East Bloc countries after Soviet Union fell, 7 p.m.
National Press Club member Ron N. Hoffer plans to discuss his book "From the Bronx to Berlin and Beyond" at a Virtual Book Rap at 7 p.m. tonight, Thursday, Jan. 21 Hoffer is a specialist in water and environmental management. He has worked with the Environmental Protection Agency, the World Bank and state governments. He always has his camera with him and has become known as a documentary photographer. "From the Bronx to Berlin and Beyond "is a set of photographs taken in the late 1980s and ’90s in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. The photographs are augmented by explanatory text. The book is…
Type: News
James Beard Award-winning Chef Andy Ricker cooks from Thailand to free Austin Tice, Jan. 8
James Beard Award-winning Chef Andy Ricker will lead a remote cooking demonstration from his kitchen in Thailand on Friday, Jan. 8, in an effort to bring awareness to the case of Austin Tice, the Marine veteran and award-winning journalist who was detained at a checkpoint in Syria while covering the unrest there in 2012. Ricker, the chef and owner of the popular Pok Pok restaurants, will team up with Tice’s brother Jacob Tice and Washington Post Global Opinions columnist and press freedom advocate Jason Rezaian to teach viewers how to make authentic pad see ew in the next episode of Cook for…
Type: News
Inauguration of Lisa Matthews - 114th President of the National Press Club
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Lisa Nicole Matthews, Assignment Manager of U.S. Video for the Associated Press, was elected the 114th president of the National Press Club, The World's Leading Professional Organization for Journalists™, on Friday, December 4, 2020. Over the course of her long career in journalism, Matthews has received two Edward R. Murrow Awards – one in 2002 for outstanding coverage of the events on September 11, 2001 and her second in 2010 for Video Continuing Coverage of the Economy. Matthews also received the AP's Oliver S. Gramling Spirit Award for service to clients in 2004. Born on Andrews Air Force…
Type: Event
Top volunteers help Club survive pandemic
The National Press Club honored dozens of members for their outstanding volunteer contributions on Friday, Dec. 18, but the unprecedented challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic required the steadfast support of the entire Club community. The Club suspended in-person services from mid-March to early June and struggled to generate revenue even after the doors re-opened. Yet the Club seamlessly pivoted to online events for almost all of its newsmaker programs and continued to fulfill its mission of advancing press freedom and the journalism profession, Club President Michael Freedman said…
Type: News
Ash Gerecht, 97, newsletter publisher
Ash Gerecht, a 63-year member of the National Press Club and pioneering newsletter publisher, died Nov. 18 at his home in Silver Spring. He was 97. Ash Gerecht was a member of the National Press Club for 63 years. In the early 1970s, Gerecht successfully helped fight for equal treatment of newsletter publications seeking credentials to cover Congress from the House and Senate periodical press galleries. He started his first newsletter, Housing Affairs, with 11 subscribers in 1961 and built his Silver Spring-based business, CD Publications, to include more than two dozen newsletters with…
Type: News
Learn about 'world’s longest book tour' at Indie Writers Group meeting Jan. 14
The Indie Authors Group, a monthly gathering of National Press Club members exploring all aspects of independent book publishing, will host bestselling author Jenny Milchman to talk about her “World’s Longest Book Tour” at the group's monthly virtual meeting at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 14. The meeting is open to all Press Club members. To participate, click here. Best-selling author Jenny Milchman will be the guest at a Jan. 14 meeting of the National Press Club Indie Authors Group. In 2013, Milchman, then an unknown first-time author, rented her house, traded two cars for an SUV that…
Type: News
Patriot Act Provisions
Carol Brey-Casiano, the president of the American Library Association and director of the El Paso (Texas) Public Library, talked about librarians' concerns about portions of the USA Patriot Act. The American Library Association (ALA) opposed any use of governmental power to suppress the free and open exchange of knowledge or to intimidate individuals exercising free inquiry. The ALA considered sections of the USA Patriot Act a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of library users. Following her remarks she answered questions from the audience.
Type: Media