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NPC Toastmasters contest winners to compete at area contest; Next Toastmasters meeting, March 27
Congratulations to Shelja Purohit and Caitlin Vogus, winners of the NPC Toastmasters contest held March 20 for Best Speaker and Best Evaluator in the first leg of the annual international speech contest. Purohit and Vogus will now compete at the area level contest on April 4. Purohit gave an entertaining speech on the challenge of communicating generationally. One example was her emailed request to ‘have a word’ with her young male assistant. He responded, “A word?” and Purohit was a bit agitated by his terse response. It turns out that among people his age, that phrase can be code for…
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As Turkish foreign minister visits, National Press Club and its Journalism Institute call on Turkey to free journalists
The foreign minister of Turkey, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, appeared Tuesday, March 21 at the National Press Club for a privately organized event. Access to his speech and subsequent press conference was controlled by the event sponsors. The National Press Club is proud of our history providing a forum for reporters and newsmakers to meet, and pleased that foreign leaders come through our doors to answer the questions of journalists from across the globe who cover Washington. But on this occasion, we feel compelled to note a glaring irony: The foreign minister's appearance at our club, a place…
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Last chance to reserve for gourmet Italian dinner featuring Domenica Marchetti, April 4
Experience an Italian dinner dedicated to the ancient Mediterranean art of food preservation with acclaimed cookbook author Domenica Marchetti on April 4 at the Fourth Estate restaurant. The dinner kicks off with hors d'oeuvres and a speciality cocktail at 6:30 p.m. You'll then enjoy four courses with perfectly paired wines. Tickets are $65 a person or $125 per couple. NPC members receive a 15% discount. Member tickets are $55 per person and $106.26 per couple $55.25. Each ticket includes a signed copy of Domenica’s cookbook (couple tickets get one book). NPC members must be logged in to…
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Apply now! Columbia University offers seminar to promote quality energy reporting, deadline March 31
The Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University is accepting applications from energy journalists for an all-expenses-paid seminar in New York that will acquaint participants with various disciplines associated with the beat, including finance, markets, science, policy and geopolitics. Funded with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Reid Hoffman, a member of the CGEP Advisory Board, the Energy Journalism Initiative aims to promote quality reporting on energy, a topic that is becoming increasingly important and complex. The Energy Journalism Initiative will feature a…
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Due to high interest, ticket sales for Pfizer CEO lunch, March 23, reopened
The National Press Club has reopened ticket sales for the luncheon featuring Pfizer CEO Ian Read after extraordinary interest. The event will move from Holelman Lounge to Ballroom to accommodate many more who wish to attend. Read, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, will address health care reform and the pharmaceutical industry on Thursday, March 23 at a National Press Club luncheon. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m., with remarks beginning at 1 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session ending at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $25 for Press Club members (NPC Members may purchase…
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Budget experts slam Trump's 'Skinny Budget'
The Trump administration's budget document with its cuts in domestic non-defense programs to offset an increase in defense expenditures is not a real budget because it lacks economic projections and contains $18 billion of unspecified cuts, a panel of veteran budget analysts said Friday at a National Press Club Newsmaker press conference. "There's more that's not here than is here," said Stan Collender, executive vice president of Qorvis MSLGROUP, noting that the "skinny budget," as the document is described, addresses just a third of federal spending. It is "more ideology than economics," he…
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Events in the Soviet Union
Mr. Smith is a former Moscow and Eastern European correspondent for The New York Times, and is now a fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University. He authored two books on the Soviet Union: in 1983 he published The Russians, and in 1990 he published The New Russians. In a speech two weeks after the coup, he examined trends in the Soviet Union and the recent coup, and he discussed the how the Soviet press has thrived despite existing under government controls. He gave emotional descriptions of Soviet journalists he knew who were censored or killed by their government.
Type: Media
Last day to sign up for Marvin Kalb's talk and movie screening of "Good Night and Good Luck"
Journalism luminary Marvin Kalb, the last correspondent personally hired at CBS News by Edward R. Murrow, will discuss threats to U.S. democracy in the Trump administration at a National Press Club Journalism Institute’s Press Freedom Committee talk on Thursday, March 30 at 6 p.m. in the Murrow Room. The talk will be followed by a screening of the film “Good Night and Good Luck," which chronicles Murrow’s epic rebuke of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. This event is open to NPC members, working journalists, and students. The forum is free to members and students, and costs $10 for the general public.…
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Don't get hacked and protect your sources with hands on encryption training for journalists, March 25
Learn how to report securely using your smart phone at a National Press Club Journalism Institute class March 25 with cyber security expert Aaron Rinehart. Rinehart and National Press Club board member Danny Al-Faruque will lead this new unique new series featuring hands-on encryption training for journalists, with guest lecturers joining certain sessions. The first class, Secure Reporting with Smart Phones, will be held Saturday, March 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the club’s Bloomberg Room. The cost of each class is $30 for NPC members and $45 for the general public. Class fees included a…
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O'Rourke skewers both sides of the political divide at his book event
P.J. O’Rourke, The New York Times best-selling author of twenty books and former editor-in-chief of National Lampoon, gave an equal-opportunity skewering to all sides of the political spectrum while discussing his newest book, "How the Hell Did This Happen: The Election of 2016." at a National Press Club book event March 16. “Imagine playing a round of golf with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump,” he said “The scorecard would end up on Hillary’s email server. Trump would nudge the ball with his foot to create an alternative fact.” “Hillary,” he said, “carried more baggage than her Boeing did…
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