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Preparation is key to delivering, Barks tells Club
Preparation and assessing performance after the fact are keys for Congressional testimony, communications consultant Ed Barks told a National Press Club Communicators Breakfast Aug. 9. That involves knowing what issues may arise as some witnesses can present an effective statement but then fall apart on the Q&A, he said. Conducting a simulated hearing is also a must in order to achieve peak performance. Researching committee members ahead of time is warranted – though not necessarily of a partisan nature – to gauge what they might ask, he said. He said Mark Zuckerberg was probably given…
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Jan King, 74, former Press Club member
Janice Prahovic King, a former member of the National Press Club, passed away after a long battle with cancer in San Diego on Aug. 11. She was 74. King, who was known as Jan, joined the Club in 2007. She was the recording secretary for several years for the former Book and Author Committee and a member of the Headliners Team before she moved to San Diego in August 2017. She also wrote for the Wire. “Jan lit up a room by simply walking into it,” said Eleanor Herman, who introduced King to the Club. She wrote nearly 30 humor books including Hormones from Hell, which sold more than a million…
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Gwendolyn Gibson, 93, former Washington correspondent
Gwendolyn Gibson, a pioneer female journalist whose career took her from the New York Herald Tribune to United Press International, died Monday from complications due to vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. She passed away in the home of her daughter in Austin, Texas, surrounded by family and in the care of home hospice and her immediate family. She was a former vice president of the Washington Press Club and a lifetime member of the National Press Club. Gibson moved to Austin from Washington in 2005 where her only daughter and granddaughter lived and where she worked as a part-time…
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Sean Spicer talks about the press at Club Headliners event
Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, conceding little in his criticism of the news media, told journalists that journalists need to look at themselves as critically as they look at the Trump administration. Spicer spoke Monday at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event about his new book, “Briefing: Politics, the Press Corps and the President.” He rejected his former boss's characterization of the press as the "enemy of the people." He said he doesn't like it when any group is characterized, "but it goes both ways." Spicer claimed 80 to 90 percent of the coverage of Trump…
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How do you want your steak? Come to the Reliable Source on Aug. 23
A special steak dinner with a glass of champagne will be offered at the Reliable Source on Thursday, Aug. 23. Dinner will be served beginning at 5:30 p.m. The cost is $28 for National Press Club members and $35 for nonmembers, plus tax and gratuity. To reserve a space, please contact the Reliable Source at [email protected] or 202-662-7443.
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Sen. Warren to deliver major policy speech at Headliners Newsmaker Tuesday
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., will give a major policy speech on ending corruption in Washington at a National Press Club Headliners Newsmaker at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the conference rooms. Warren, a potential 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, recently said, "Our government has been captured by powerful corporations and millionaires have used their money to rig our economy so it works for them and not for you. It's time to call this out for exactly what it is: corruption." She is up for re-election this fall. Newsmakers is open to credentialed media and Club members free of charge…
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Come sing during supper at the Club on Friday
Karaoke is back at the National Press Club. Members are encouraged to bring their friends, grab a few drinks and all-you-can-eat tacos at the Reliable Source , select a song, and come to the Cosgrove Lounge Friday beginning at 6 p.m.
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This week in Club history: A headline for the ages
One of the most famous headlines in American journalism came out of a speech that President Gerald Ford delivered at a National Press Club luncheon on Oct. 29, 1975. New York City had severe financial problems, and the issue of the day was whether the federal government would help the city avoid default. Then, as now, Republicans were averse to helping the city.. David Gergen, then an aide to Treasury Secretary William Simon, said he had been asked to contribute to a draft of the speech that would be delivered at the Club. “I wrote a hard-hitting piece, assuming that if it ever saw the light…
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Club's successful effort to Free Emilio lauded in Star-Ledger editorial
The Star-Ledger of Newark lauded the National Press Club for its successful efforts to free Emilio Gutierrez Soto, the Mexican journalist threatened with deportation by the Trump administration. The editorial, which also ran on NJ.com, described the Club's work on behalf of Gutierrez Soto, who was jailed and threatened with deportation after criticizing the U.S. government's policy toward asylum seekers during a speech at the Club where he accepted the John Aubuchon Award for Freedom of the Press on behalf of Mexican journalists. "The 'enemy of the people' is not a reporter brave enough to…
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National Guard spokesmen to address American Legion Post 20 on Sept. 11
National Guard Bureau public affairs officials will address the National Press Club's American Legion Post 20 at noon on Tuesday, Sept. 11, in the McClendon Room. The speaker portion of the meeting is open to all Club members. The guest speakers will be Tracy O'Grady-Walsh, recently named as director of communications for the National Guard Bureau, and Jon Anderson, longtime deputy director. They will discuss public affairs issues, priorities and challenges facing the National Guard. O'Grady-Walsh is a retired Air Force colonel and was a senior communications officer at the National…
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