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Test your speaking mettle with NPC Toastmasters, Monday, April 24 at 7pm
Do you enjoy the challenge of speaking off-the-cuff? At the last Toastmasters meeting we had a great time doing just that during the very popular Table Topics session. Participants had to explain in one to two minutes why their car sported a particular bumper sticker. These different bumper stickers included: · Be the reason someone smiles today · Life begins at the end of your comfort zone · Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see · The best things in life aren't things How would you have responded? Or is planning what you want to say…
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Half-day symposium on press freedom, April 19 at 9 a.m.
The challenges to journalists are coming fast and furious: Access denied, outright falsehoods, alternative facts and sources afraid to talk. The National Press Club Journalism Institute, the Club’s professional training affiliate, will join forces with another non-profit dedicated to journalism education, the National Press Foundation, to host a half-day symposium on Wednesday, April 19, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Club’s Murrow Room. Panelists will include beat reporters and industry leaders. The goal is to help the working press learn to navigate the treacherous landscape facing us today.…
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POSTPONED: NPC Luncheon with General Dunford; new date TBD
Due to a last minute scheduling conflict, the NPC Luncheon with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford, originally scheduled for Friday, April 21, has been postponed. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and will be sure to let you know when a new date for this event has been selected. Lindsay UnderwoodMember Engagement ManagerThe National Press Club529 14th Street, NW, 13th FloorWashington, DC [email protected]
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Video illustrates how to use new security gates at National Press Club
The National Press Club’s new security gates will “go live” on Wednesday, April 19. Here's a video to guide you on how to use the new gates: Resident members still can enroll for either the smartphone app or a fob in the Membership Department. There is a $75 replacement fee for lost fobs. Non-resident members should contact the Membership Department ahead of visiting the Club to get a access code to scan at the gates. In the event you cannot notify us ahead of a visit, please be sure to have your membership card on hand. The staff will work with you to ensure you can access the Club. For all…
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Wanted: Mentors, internship hosts for journalism students
The Fund for American Studies Institute on Political Journalism (IPJ) is seeking working journalists in the Washington, D.C., area to volunteer as mentors to college journalism students attending our summer-internship program. Mentors are matched with students based on several common factors including professional field, hometown, and alma mater. The following are the requirements to be a mentor: Commitment to serve as a mentor during the eight week summer program, which runs from June 3 to July 28; Willingness to meet face-to-face with your mentee at least once in June and once in July…
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NPC's Reliable Source offers special kids menu before magic show on Monday, April 17
Reliable Source Maître de Mesfin Mekonen promises there will be special kids fare at the National Press Club's bar on Monday, April 17, for Club members and guests who want to catch a bite before the annual magic show, which starts at 7 p.m. The show in the conference rooms is free, but it would help if you could let us know if you are coming by calling 662-7500 (no e-mails please.) To reserve a table at the Reliable Source, call 662-7443. Get to the restaurant early so you don’t miss a moment of abracadabra. Five magicians from the Society of American Magicians Assembly 23 will perform…
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Club member hosts event examining life of Clare Boothe Luce, Tuesday, April 18, at noon
Janice Law, founder of the American Women Writers National Museum and a National Press Club member, invites all Club members to a discussion of the life of Clare Boothe Luce on Tuesday, April 18, at noon in the McClendon Room. The event is free and no reservations are necessary. Michelle Easton, president of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, plans to lead the discussion about Boothe Luce, who was a writer, a Broadway playwright, ambassador to Italy, a member of Congress, wartime journalist and a Medal-of-Freedom honoree. The event is sponsored by American Women Writers National Museum,…
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D.C. United offers discount tickets to National Press Club members
D.C. United soccer is offering discounted tickets to the May 6 game at RFK to National Press Club members, family and friends. Please click here to purchase tickets. For any questions, please contact NPC member Carl Ericson at [email protected] or D.C. United representative Christopher Lowe at [email protected].
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Kalb Report: How Trump’s gotten into our heads
President Donald Trump is trying to demonize news reporting to shape the information reaching the public so that it only makes him look good -– and it won’t work, CNN’s Jake Tapper and the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold told host Marvin Kalb on the latest edition of The Kalb Report April 8. Just days after the program on April 10, Fahrenthold won the Pulitzer Prize for his presidential-campaign stories that probed Trump’s charitable giving. Kalb started the program by noting that Trump refers to news reports he doesn’t like as “fake news” and that he called journalists “the most…
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Security gates at National Press Club activate on Wednesday, April 19
The National Press Club’s new security gates will “go live” on Wednesday, April 19. Once the system is activated, resident members can use their security fob or the app to enter the Club. Resident members still can enroll for either option in the Membership Department. Resident members can get a fob or a smartphone app, not both. There is a $75 replacement fee for lost fobs. Non-resident members should contact the Membership Department ahead of visiting the Club to get an access code to scan at the gates. The staff will work with you to ensure you can access the Club. For all members, ahead…
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