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Next Communicators Breakfast to showcase Club’s video services, March 10
National Press Club members and their guests can learn how the Club’s state-of-the-art Broadcast Operations Center may help meet their communications needs at the next Communicators Series Breakfast on Friday, March 10, at 8 a.m. in the Cosgrove Lounge. A presentation, followed by a tour of the television studio and production facilities on the National Press Building's fourth floor,is free to Club members. Guests are admitted for $10 per person and must be accompanied by a member. Register here. The Club has full-time professional staff of engineers, editors and videographers as well an…
Type: News
Events in Yugoslavia
President Izetbegovic of the Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, which sits between Serbia and Croatia, delivered remarks about the political situation in Yugoslavia. He gave his assessment of the violence and politics currently dividing Yugoslavia and how he believed the conflict could be resolved. President Izetbegovic spent many years in prison for his political and literary activity. In 1989 he established the Muslim Party of Democratic Action and was elected its first President. The president spoke in his native language, Yugoslav, while his daughter translated into English. He…
Type: Media
How to deal with fake news? Pros to share their strategies at free symposium at Club, March 9
What’s fact and what’s fake? Those questions dominated the 2016 election campaign and swirl today in Donald Trump’s presidency, providing new challenges for journalists as they seek to cover the White House accurately and fairly. You can get help in facing those challenges at a free symposium sponsored by the Missouri School of Journalism, the Reynolds Journalism Institute, and the National Press Club Journalism Institute, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the National Press Club on Thursday, March 9. The event is free, but and reservations are required. If interested in attending, register here.…
Type: News
Tom Rosenstiel, journalism thinker, author to discuss his new political thriller at book event, Thursday, 6:30 p.m.
Tom Rosenstiel, one of the nation’s most recognized media thinkers and co-author of the "The Elements of Journalism," the revered text assigned to nearly every journalism school student in modern history, will share his first work of fiction, "Shining City," at a National Press Club book event on Thursday, March 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the Club's Conference Rooms. The event will feature an author discussion, an audience question-and-answer session and a book signing. Tickets are $5 for Club members and $10 for the public. Tickets and books can be purchased online here or at the event. Rosenstiel…
Type: News
Club chefs make hit with 'chicken on a stick' -- call it what you will -- at cancer fundraiser
National Press Club chefs Susan Delbert and Moe Aguilera joined 50 other Washington-area chefs and mixologists to serve unique food and drink to more than 400 guests at the 12th annual “Turn Up the Heat – a Celebration of Women Chefs” fundraiser for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance at the Ronald Reagan Building Feb. 22. Delbert, the Club’s executive chef, and Aguilera, sous chef, treated the indulgent guests at the Club’s food station to Japanese Coconut Strips with Mango Sauce and Asian pear slaw. By the time guests came back for a third or fourth sample, however, “they were more…
Type: News
NPC protests White House blackballing of news organizations
Leaders of the National Press Club and the National Press Club Journalism Institute expressed shock Friday about the White House press secretary’s decision to keep several news organizations which have written critical stories about President Trump out of one of his briefings. The White House Correspondents Association has protested the move. National Press Club President Jeffrey Ballou issued the following statement: I find it deeply disturbing and completely unacceptable that the White House is actively running a campaign against a constitutionally enshrined free and independent press. That…
Type: News
Wanted by National Press Club: Best writing about aviation, aerospace, defense
The National Press Club encourages journalists who write about aviation, aerospace and defensee to enter their best work from 2016 in the Club’s annual journalism contest. The Michael Dornheim award, one of the awards in the contest, is presented in celebration of the career of the late Michael A. Dornheim, a longtime reporter and editor at Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. T Recipient of the award must be a working journalist writing about aerospace, defense, the airline industry, or aerospace science and engineering. The winner gets a $1,000 prize. The deadline for entries is…
Type: News
Schumer, Pelosi to 'prebut' Trump's speech to Congressional joint session at Newsmaker, Monday, 2 p.m.
A day before President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer will offer a prebuttal to the President’s speech at a National Press Club Newsmaker at 2 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27, in the Club’s First Amendment Lounge. National Press Club President Jeff Ballou will serve as the moderator. Pelosi has led the House Democrats since 2003 and was the first woman elected to be Speaker of the House; Schumer became Democratic leader in January with the retirement of Sen. Harry Reid. The two top Democrats have…
Type: News
Learn about evolution of the cocktail at Fourth Estate dinner, Monday, 6:30 p.m.; there's still space
Reservations are still available for the "evolution of the cocktail" small plates dinner and drink pairing with cocktail expert and author Philip Green, Monday (Feb. 27), at 6:30 p.m. in the Fourth Estate restaurant. Sip the Americano as you enjoy a cocktail hour of passed hors d’oeuvres before sitting down to five more courses of food, drink and Greene’s sparkling wit and wealth of knowledge. Greene, the author of "The Manhattan: The Story of the First Modern Cocktail," will expertly trace the evolution of the Manhattan from its competing origin stories through its continuing influence and…
Type: News
Reliable Source to offer its version of Mardi Gras -- with New Orleans food, drink and jazz -- next Tuesday
Maybe you can't be in New Orleans when the city celebrates Mardi Gras next Tuesday (Feb. 28). But you need not miss out on the food, drink and jazz that mark the festival. It'll all be happening at the National Press Club's Reliable Source restaurant that evening. The popular Club hangout will serve a special New Orleans-style/Mardi Gras food and drink menu starting at 5:30 p.m. Then, starting at 6 p.m. the U Street Collective Jazz will perform in the Truman Lounge. To reserve space, contact the Reliable Source at [email protected] or 202-662-7443. Here’s what awaits you on the special menu:…
Type: News