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Fill your November calendar with Happy Hours, Pub Quiz and Taco Nights at the Reliable Source
The Reliable Source has a number of special activities on tap for November: Thursday, Nov. 2: Young Members Happy Hour – 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Truman Lounge Friday, Nov. 3: First Friday Taco Night - 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Reliable Source Thursday, Nov. 9: NPC Pub Quiz Night – 7 p.m. in the Truman Lounge Thursday, Nov. 10 – NPC Institute Annual Book Fair & Authors' Night Buffet/Roast Beef buffet night – 5:30 p.m. Reliable Source (No Taco Night due to Roast Beef buffet.)
Type: News
Trump’s criticism becomes “background music” as Times and Post push for truth, executive editors say
White House reporting can be challenging as President Trump demeans news coverage as "fake," but the executive editors of two of the nation’s leading newspapers said it can be done by maintaining high standards and not snapping at the president’s bait. “If you tell the truth, if you're accurate, if you're aggressive, and you're fair, and you hold onto your principles, I think in the end, that’s the only way you can cover him,” The New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet told moderator Marvin Kalb on the latest edition of “The Kalb Report" at the National Press Club on Monday. For Marty…
Type: News
Pussy Riot, Azar Nafisi among the artists, authors at Burning to Tell You: Critical Conversations with Risk-Taking Artists, Oct. 28
Join the NPC Events Team, The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics (The Lab) at Georgetown University and The Artist Partner Program at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland for Burning to Tell You: Critical Conversations with Risk-Taking Artists at the National Press Club on Saturday, Oct. 28, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m in the Ballroom. Burning to Tell You brings together artists, activists, journalists, and thinkers from around the world whose work embodies the urgency of free expression in contexts of censorship, repression, and violence.…
Type: News
Dues increase approved at NPC General Membership Meeting
National Press Club members voted at the General Membership Meeting Oct. 13 to increase membership dues by $1 per month. By unanimous voice vote, members who belong to the category of working journalists or communicators agreed to pay an additional $12 annually beginning in 2018. In 2016, membership agreed to increase dues by $2 per month. While the Club paid off its debt in 2013 and has a healthy revenue stream, the increase in dues will cover basic costs of the Club from keeping on the lights to paying the staff, Club Treasurer Ferdous al-Faruque said at the meeting. The dues increase…
Type: News
Attention education reporters! Apply for the newly created Education Week Gregory M. Chronister Journalism Fellowship
A new fellowship named for Education Week's Gregory M. Chronister will award up to $10,000 a year to support enterprise or investigative reporting on pre-K-12 education. Editorial Projects in Education's Education Week Gregory M. Chronister Journalism Fellowship will be awarded annually to an enterprising journalist in support of a reporting project that illuminates a significant issue in pre-K-12 education. The fellowship, open to early-career, midcareer and veteran journalists, is intended to be completed while the recipient continues his or her regular employment. It will provide financial…
Type: News
National Press Club Joins Letter to FCC After Trump Threats
The National Press Club and the NPC Journalism Institute have joined with other news groups in urging the Federal Communications Commission to defend the First Amendment against presidential pressure. President Donald Trump last week suggested that the broadcast licenses of news organizations should be “challenged and, if appropriate, revoked” if they disseminate what he calls “fake news.” His comment came in the wake of a report by NBC News that he did not like. The Federal Communications Commission, chaired by Ajit Pai, licenses local stations, not networks such as NBC. Still, news…
Type: News
Learn why it's never too early to follow the money in politics at Oct. 20 workshop
The second workshop of the “It’s Never Too Early to Follow the Money” series with the Center for Responsive Politics will be held Friday, Oct. 20, at 9:30 a.m. in the Bloomberg Room. The event, hosted by the National Press Club Journalism Institute, will help reporters tap into the center’s resources for analyzing campaign finance data, personal finances of members of Congress, foreign lobbyists data and political TV ad buys. Members can purchase tickets for $5; non-member tickets are $10 each. Click here to purchase tickets. The nonprofit, nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics (www.…
Type: News
Senate Agenda
Senator Mitchell addressed the National Press Club on the Senate agenda for the upcoming session. He is majority leader of the Senate. He discussed President Bush's handling of the economy, the nation's unemployment, and the Democratic party's presidential campaign.
Type: Media
Washington tour guide to present a dramatic reading of Dorothy Parker's work, Oct. 18
Member Janice Law invites all Club members to a presentation on two-time Oscar nominee (screenwriting 1937, 1947) and acerbic wit Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 18 in the McClendon Room. Elaine Flynn, a Washington D.C. tour guide whose avocation is researching Parker, will do a “dramatization” as Parker and read from Parker’s work. The free program is sponsored by five-year-old American Women Writers National Museum, a nonprofit found by Law. For questions or reservations, email [email protected] or see www.americanwomenwritersnationalmuseum.org.
Type: News
Follow the political money: Meet new FEC website, Oct. 13
The homestretch of the 2018 elections is a year away, and political spending already is underway. The National Press Club Journalism Institute is presenting a fall curriculum for reporters who will be keeping readers, viewers and listeners posted on who is trying to influence the outcome. The series, “It’s never too early to follow the money,” will be held in three separate sessions in the Club’s Bloomberg Room starting on Oct. 13. Each session requires separate registration, found in the link below for the first session. Tickets for each are $5 for Club members and $10 for non-members. Oct…
Type: News