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Send your best news photo from 2017 to the National Press Club
The National Press Club’s journalism contest will present an award for excellence in news photography again this year, so be sure to enter your best work. The contest will recognize excellence for an individual news photo and the contest is limited to photos taken during 2017. Only one news photo should be submitted per entry and people are limited to 3 separate entries at most. The winner will win one year’s free Club membership. Members may offer photo entries for free, while non-members pay $50 per entry. The photo awards are intended to honor professional photojournalists who have…
Type: News
Foundation awards press-freedom grant to National Press Club Journalism Institute
The National Press Club Journalism Institute (NPCJI) has received a $107,000 grant from the Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation to support a series of programs that will examine barriers to press freedom in the United States and abroad. Founded in 1989, the Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation makes grants each year to nonprofits active in journalism, as well as nationally prominent universities, arts organizations and hospitals. “This gift is welcome support for our programming in press freedom and journalistic excellence. We’re very grateful for this recognition of our efforts to fulfill our mission of…
Type: News
Best young journalists recognized with the Sandy Hume Memorial Award
The National Press Club wants to recognize the best young journalists for outstanding political reporting and writing. The Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism shines a spotlight on the best such work in 2017. The Club’s annual journalism contest offers the Hume award among many on topics ranging from politics to online journalism to foreign coverage. The award is named for The Hill reporter who broke the story of the aborted 1997 coup against House Speaker Newt Gingrich. It honors excellence and objectivity in political coverage in print or online publications.…
Type: News
Veteran journalist discusses new book on achieving a more equitable workplace, March 1
Veteran journalist and author, Joanne Lipman, will discuss her new book, That’s What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together, at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 1. Lipman became the first woman to rise to the position of deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal and supervised coverage that won three Pulitzer Prizes. She later moved on to other leadership roles in media, including most recently serving as chief content officer at Gannett and editor-in-chief of USA Today. in her new book, Lipman…
Type: News
Events committee seeks ideas, volunteers, 7 pm Feb 20
The National Press Club Events Committee is kicking off the year with its first meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 20. If you have a great idea for an event, come and pitch it! We're also looking for volunteers to help be a part of a variety of events, including a casino night, whiskey tastings, wine tastings, movie nights, happy hours with people from all over the city and dinners with amazing guests. If you cannot make the meeting but have an idea you want to share or volunteer to help for future events, please email both Emily Wilkins and Ally Harpootlian at [email protected] and…
Type: News
The Watergate's mysterious past explored, 6:30 pm Feb. 21
Nearly everyone is familiar with the Nixon-era Watergate scandal, which began with the arrest of five men at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and ended with the resignation of America’s chief executive. But there is more to the history of the Watergate complex. Joseph Rodata, author of The Watergate: Inside America’s Most Infamous Address, will take attendees on a deep dive into the Watergate’s shadowy past and most intriguing inhabitants at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21. Tickets are $5 for Club members and $10 for the general…
Type: News
American Political System
Mr. Perot spoke to the National Press Club audience about his thoughts on the American political system. In response to questions, he indicated that if individuals working independently successfully file him as an independent candidate in all 50 states, he would run for president. This was Mr. Perot's third appearance before the National Press Club.
Type: Media
Play ball! Join fellow Club members on the softball field against other news outlets
In the spring, a young man's -- or young woman's -- fancy turns to thoughts of softball. If this is you, we'd love to see you on the National Press Club's co-ed softball team, which made the Final Three in last year's playoffs. Join fellow Club members in playing against the Washington Post, CNN, Wall Street Journal, CBS News and other media teams in the Metropolitan Media Softball League. The only requirement is that you be a full member of the Club. Spouses are welcome as well if the member plays. The Club pays the league fee and supplies bats, balls and National Press Club T-shirts. Games…
Type: News
Use virtual/augmented reality to tell your story, 8 am Feb. 21
Rachel Henderson, vice president at Warschawski, will discuss the opportunities and challenges communicators face as they use virtual/augmented reality to promote their brands, organizations and clients at a National Press Club Communicators Team breakfast at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 21, in the Cosgrove Room. Henderson is an award-winning virtual reality producer and leads Warschawski’s new VR/AR offering for its clients. The continental breakfast is free of charge and open to Club members only. Registration is required. Virtual and augmented reality storytelling, the most immersive…
Type: News
Author Danni Starr encourages empathy, discussion of mental-health problems
If radio talk show host Danni Starr could pass anything onto her two daughters, it would be empathy, she said at a Feb. 13 National Press Club Headliner’s Book Event. Club President Andrea Edney interviewed Starr about her new memoir, Empathy and Eyebrows: A Survivalist’s Stories on Reviving your Spirit after Soul-Crushing Sh*tstorms. A few years ago, Starr, 33, had it all. A successful radio career, a happy marriage, and a new baby. Then she sank into severe post-partum depression. After the birth of her second child, she suffered post-partum anxiety, constantly imagining the deaths of…
Type: News