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Today: General membership meeting at noon
The next National Press Club General Membership Meeting will be at noon Friday, May 12, in the First Amendment Lounge. A buffet lunch will be served. All Club members are welcome. The program will begin at 12:15. As usual, a webcast will be available for members who cannot attend in person. Club members planning to attend who have not yet obtained their Club security app or fob, should contact the membership department.
Type: News
NPC Toastmasters meets in McClendon Room, 7 pm May 8
Did you know that Pablo Casals discovered Bach’s Cello Suites on a dusty shelf in a Barcelona music store 1889? Casals was just 13 years old at the time and he would spend the next 12 years mastering the suites before performing them in public. A National Press Club Toastmaster recently gave a speech on this musical maestro’s dedication as part of a “Give an Inspiring Speech” exercise. Sometimes the exercise is more academic – a dry run of a professional presentation one needs to deliver. No matter the topic or exercise, they all help us become more confident public speakers, and we usually…
Type: News
On World Press Freedom Day, media organizations call on U.S. government to free Mexican journalist
Our organizations -- the National Press Club Journalism Institute, Reporters without Borders, Border Center for Journalists and Bloggers, and the International Center for Journalists -- all working to advance press freedom in the United States and abroad, join in calling on the U.S. government to release Mexican journalist Martin Mendez from a detention facility in El Paso. Today — World Press Freedom Day — marks the 87th day of Martin's incarceration. This 26-year-old reporter's “crime?" Exposing official corruption in his hometown of Acapulco and then, after he was threatened with death…
Type: News
Press organizations pledge to strengthen journalism community in World Press Freedom Day statement
World Press Freedom Day 2017 arrives at a time when press institutions worldwide are under siege from forces that are both political and economic. Combined, these forces threaten democratic society as we know it. The same sweeping structural economic changes that have hollowed out so many newsrooms have produced widespread political anxiety.That anxiety in turn has given rise to scapegoating and kill-the-messenger-ism. Bearers of what are often bad tidings can’t expect to be popular, but journalists cannot take a neutral stand on attacks against themselves. The survival of democracy depends…
Type: News
Journalism Institute schedules World Press Freedom Day expert panel, May 3 at 9 a.m.
The National Press Club and the Journalism Institute plan to recognize World Press Freedom Day by convening an expert panel of journalists, including a 2017 Pulitzer Prize winner, on Wednesday, May 3, from 9 a.m. to noon to discuss the state of press freedom in the United States and internationally. Registration is required; tickets are $5 for Club members and $10 for the general public. Visit the event page for updated list of panelists and to RSVP. Panel topics include: Protecting the First Amendment: How does press freedom in the USA compare to other countries? The state of local news…
Type: News
Former NPC President Mark Hamrick named SABEW President
Former National Press Club President Mark Hamrick, Washington bureau chief and senior economic analyst at Bankrate.com, has been named president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), an organization of business journalists. Hamrick joined the SABEW Board of Governors in 2014 and has held the positions of secretary, treasurer and vice president. “I’m humbled and honored to have the opportunity to serve SABEW members and the profession at this critically important time for our industry and our nation," Hamrick said. "The rapid pace of change, including the ongoing…
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Member for 16 years, Edgar A. Poe, Jr. dies
Edgar A. Poe, Jr., a veteran editor at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, died Oct. 24, 2016, after suffering a stroke. He was 80, had lived in Lancaster, Virginia, and had been a National Press Club member for 16 years. "He was a wonderful man to work with," said Brenda Curtis-Heiken, a former broadcast journalist at USDA. "He put together the USDA Yearbook, a classic for years that covered everything from food stamps to the Forest Service, the Russian grain deal to sustainable gardening." His father, Edgar A. Poe, Sr., was also a long-time Club member, a Washington reporter for The Times-…
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A Publisher's Perspective
Mr. Black provided a publisher's perspective on the process by which newspapers are created and presented to the readers.
Type: Media
Dan Olmsted UPI and Gannett veteran dies at 64
Daniel "Dan" J. Olmsted of Falls Church, Virginia., former Washington bureau chief for United Press International, died Jan. 23. He was 64 and had been a member of the National Press Club for 17 years. The following obituary was posted by Fairfax Memorial Founder Home. Dan Olmsted was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Robert and Catharine (Hatfield) Olmsted. He moved to Danville, Illinois, and graduated from Danville High School in 1970. He was the news editor of the high school newspaper and worked part time at Gannett's Commercial-News. He was an Eagle Scout. He was inducted into the Wall…
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North Korea expert addresses NPC Legion Post on No. 1 national security risk
North Korea is "the number one national security issue that has to be addressed," Joseph DeTrani, former U.S. Ambassador to the Six Party Talks with that country, told a luncheon meeting of National Press Club American Legion Post 20 on Friday, April 28. DeTrani, a veteran diplomat and national security expert, participates is occasional meetings with the rogue regime's vice minister for foreign affairs in non-governmental contacts to keep a door open to the reclusive and unpredictable nuclear power. He recounted the Korean Peninsula's tortured 2000-year history of occupation by foreign…
Type: News