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Club member experiences elections the German way
When Lisa Hagen arrived in Germany to cover the final months of the election campaign, she discovered that Chancellor Angela Merkel was on vacation. Just over a month before Germans went to the polls this year, Merkel, seeking her fourth term in office, was not on the campaign trail and instead was out of the country. And for Hagen, reporting in Germany on an Arthur Burns Fellowship from the International Center for Journalists, it was one of many differences from the American way. “Any time anyone is away from the campaign trail in the U.S., it ends up being a big controversy,” she said. “…
Type: News
Notice of temporary closure of restrooms and locker room facilities
This is to inform all National Press Club members that a two phase bathroom renovation will begin at the Club starting on Monday, Dec. 18, 2017. As a result, the member locker rooms and the North side 13th floor restrooms will be closed. The first phase is scheduled to last six to eight weeks. Those who use the Club’s “Freelancers Alley” are welcome to use the library, mezzanine, 14th floor elevator alcove or the Truman Lounge in place of the alley during this period of construction. The restrooms located inside the Reliable Source and on the 13th floor south side will remain open for use. A…
Type: News
Obit: Fourth Estate Award winner Simeon Booker
Simeon Booker, a Golden Owl member and National Press Club Fourth Estate Award winner, died Sunday, Dec. 10, at the age of 99. His widow, Carol Booker, said he passed peacefully surrounded by family. Booker, who in 1956 became the second African-American to join the Club, won its top award in 1982. In January he held the Bible on which Club President Jeff Ballou took the oath to become the Club's first African-American male president. Tributes to Booker are at the following: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/simeon-booker-intrepid-chronicler-of-civil-rights-struggle-for-jet-and-…
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Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez speaks to Club from detention center
Speaking by phone from a detention center in Texas, Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez, who won the National Press Club’s International Press Freedom award in October, told a Club press conference Monday he would be killed if he is deported to Mexico. Gutierrez, who has been a refugee in the United States since 2008, said he fled his native country after a Mexican general and colonel threatened his life because of his reports on the corruption of the Mexican military. His reports said Mexican troops were robbing citizens. His house was ransacked, and he learned he would be killed if he…
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Memorial service set for Bill Royce, Dec. 16
William R. "Bill" Royce, 74, a retired senior advisor and Middle East expert at the Voice of America (VOA) and a 22-year member of the National Press Club, died Nov. 24 at Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, Md. A memorial service is scheduled for Dec. 16 at 10 a.m. at the Club. Bill especially enjoyed the Club's Friday taco nights, where he shared lively chats about travel and politics with his many friends and colleagues. His expertise on the Middle East began with living in Iran for two years under a Fulbright Scholarship after graduating from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service…
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Andrea Snyder Edney elected 111th National Press Club president
Andrea Snyder Edney, an editor at Bloomberg News, was elected the 111th president of the National Press Club on Dec. 8, promising that the Club would help “strengthen our journalism community” to respond to an “unprecedented time” in the profession. Edney, who ran unopposed for the office, won one of several Club officer and board positions that were decided in the Club election, which ran from Nov. 27 through Dec. 8. The races drew a total of 246 online and 36 in-person votes for positions open to journalist members and 180 online and 10 in-person votes for a communicator position. “This is…
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Situation in El Salvador
Mr. Christiani discussed the ongoing peace process in El Salvador. If the current cease fire in El Salvador remains successful, it will end a twelve year civil war.
Type: Media
It's Club Election Day; one contested race; polls close at 7 p.m.; Announcement follows in Reliable Source
Friday is officer and board election day at the National Press Club. Polls open outside the President's Office at the top of the grand staircase to the 14th floor at 8 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. In a contested election, four journalists are running to fill a one-year journalist post on the board. Their campaign pages are here: Molly McCluskeyErik MeltzerNikki SchwabCelia Wexler In order to receive a ballot members must present a Club membership card or their membership number and a photo ID. Results will be announced in the Reliable Source after the ballots are counted with brief remarks…
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Broadcast/Podcast Team sets goals for 2018
The National Press Club's Broadcast & Podcast Team, wrapping up its 12th year, looked forward to 2018 at its monthly meeting Thursday with the realization that it's once nascent volunteer-produced Update-1 podcast series, started in 2013, would have it's 100th episode early in the new year. Twenty-three have been produced so far this year. Members, led by Chairman Mark Hamrick, agreed to form sub-teams to take a more targeted approach to the podcast project and other regular programs such as its popular Dinners with Legends which bring together a small group for an informal chat with…
Type: News
National Press Club Press Freedom Award Winner Narrowly Avoids Deportation; Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez now in detention in El Paso
UPDATE: After an order from the Board of Immigration Appeals preempted ICE's attempt to deport Gutierrez, his lawyer was not permitted to see him. Attorney Eduardo Beckett says ICE officials informed him late Thursday that Gutierrez was being transferred to a facility in Sierra Blanca, Texas. This is 90 miles away from his lawyer's El Paso office. "I believe it's retaliation," Beckett told the National Press Club. "I believe they are trying to break him." National Press Club Press Freedom award winner Emilio Gutierrez was within minutes of being returned to Mexico, a country he fled nearly a…
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