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Tee Off at Woodmore Country Club to support NPC's Journalism Institute, Sept. 4
Tee off on Sept. 4 at the Country Club at Woodmore in Mitchellville, Maryland, to support the National Press Club Journalism Institute's 7th Annual Golf Invitational. This great day of golf begins with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. Golfers should plan to arrive by 8:30 a.m. The cost is $125 for Club members, $150 for individual registration and $500 for a foursome registration. Register online. Club members must log in to receive the member promotion. Breakfast will be served at 8:30 a.m. and lunch-on-the-turn will keep you fueled through the last hole. The tournament is an annual fundraiser for…
Type: News
America: What Went Wrong?
Mr. Barlett and Mr. Steele, Pulitzer Prize winning authors, spoke before a luncheon of the National Press Club in Washington, DC, to discuss their book, America: What Went Wrong?. The book analyzes the economic and political factors that have contributed to the decline of the American middle class. Following their prepared remarks, the two authors responded to questions from members of the audience.
Type: Media
2018 Aerospace Media Dinner presents journalism excellence awards
The annual Aerospace Media Dinner was held this year at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on July 15, the eve of the biennial Farnborough International Air Show. National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast Team member Adam Konowe, head of the judging panel, was at the event, which was founded by industry veteran Peter Bradfield. Konowe interviewed Bradfield two days later at the show for Update-1, the Club's podcast. Update-1 is produced by Mike Hempen. The podcast can be heard here on the Club website or on iTunes, Stitcher and TuneIn.
Type: News
Wall Street Journal, CQ Roll Call, Reuters and KDVR win top NPC prizes
The Wall Street Journal, CQ Roll Call and Reuters won first-place awards and KDVR of Denver had two winning finishes in the 2018 National Press Club journalism contest. The Wall Street Journal won the breaking news prize for its coverage of the Amazon/Whole Foods merger. Kate Ackley of CQ Roll Call won the Lee Walczak Award for Political Analysis and John Donnelly, also of CQ Roll Call, won the Michael A. Dornheim Award. A team from Reuters won the consumer news-newspaper prize for a thorough look at levels of lead contamination in water. KDVR won consumer journalism-broadcast for a look at…
Type: News
Who holds the record for giving the most speeches at the National Press Club?
Ed. note: Looking for the report on Gil's book rap? Click here. Who holds the record for appearing the most times at a National Press Club Luncheon? When I was president in 1994, I believe the record holder was Israeli diplomat Abba Eban. When I introduced him on May 27, 1994, I noted that this was his ninth appearance at the Club’s podium, and the first time was Nov. 21, 1950, a month after I was born. That was Eban’s last Club speech. What I didn’t know then, was that another speaker was gunning for the record. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, was making his fifth appearance my year;…
Type: News
National Press Club urges freedom for Shawkan in open letter to Egyptian ambassador
On the eve of a scheduled verdict in the long-pending case of the photojournalist Shawkan, the National Press Club and its nonprofit Journalism Institute sent an open letter to Egypt’s top diplomat in the United States about the Club’s 2016 Press Freedom award winner: Ambassador Yasser RedaEmbassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt3521 International Court NWWashington, DC 20008 July 27, 2018 Dear Mr. Ambassador, On Saturday, a court in your country is scheduled to deliver a long-delayed verdict in the case of Mahmoud Abu Zeid, the photojournalist known as Shawkan. Prosecutors are seeking a death…
Type: News
First-hand account of Trump bombshell interview with The Sun
There’s seldom a week that’s not memorable under the Trump White House. President Donald Trump’s visit to the UK in mid-July was one of those moments. In an exclusive interview with The Sun tabloid , Trump broke with all diplomatic etiquette, heavily criticizing his host, British Prime Minister Theresa May. The article was published as May wined and dined the Trumps at an elaborate black-tie dinner. Tom Newton Dunn, political editor at The Sun, conducted the bombshell interview. He tells National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast Committee member Leone Lakhani about it, in a telephone interview…
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NPC's Gil Klein reveals the hidden, sordid tales of Lafayette Square
Each day as Gil Klein strolled through Lafayette Square on his way to the National Press Club, he marveled at the public square at the heart of Washington and wondered about its history. And like any good reporter, that curiosity got the best of him and a book was born. Klein's decades of research into the often overlooked park became "Trouble in Lafayette Square: Assassination, Protest & Murder at the White House," a book full of sordid tales from the seven acres of public space just outside the front door of the White House. "This was a 30-year project. This was not something that…
Type: News
Retired ABC anchor plans to chat with Broadcast/Podcast team, Thursday, Aug. 2, noon
Former ABC News anchor and correspondent Bill Greenwood, a National Press Club member, will speak with the Broadcast/Podcast Team on Thursday, Aug. 2. The group will lead off its fall gatherings at noon in the Cosgrove Lounge of The Reliable Source. All Club members are invited to attend. Greenwood plans to reflect on his long career in broadcast news, including as an executive with Mutual Broadcasting and as Washington Bureau Chief of UPI Audio. During his long career, Greenwood covered multiple presidential campaigns, the Monica Lewinsky scandal, the Iran hostage crisis during the Carter…
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National Press Club announces Emilio Gutiérrez's release in victory for press freedom
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on July 26 agreed to free journalist Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto, ending a nearly eight-month ordeal for the National Press Club Press Freedom award winner. Gutiérrez's release from a detention facility in El Paso, Texas, will allow him to embark on a Knight-Wallace journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan as he continues to press his case for asylum in the United States. The legal battle to secure his release galvanized 19 professional-journalism organizations and human-rights groups on behalf of the Mexican reporter, who sought asylum in…
Type: News