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Meet Your Match: Find the source for your next scoop with help from the Communicators Committee
Journalists: Are you looking for fresh sources? Communicators: are you struggling to make meaningful connections with the media? The Communicators Committee would like to bring National Press Club members together to help further these relationships. How would you like to connect with the other side of the story? Whether you would prefer a casual happy hour or a more formal networking event, email [email protected] with your ideas. Please include whether you are a journalist or communicator in your note.
Type: News
Professional Baseball Issues
Commissioner Vincent spoke about a number of issues surrounding the 1992 baseball season. He addressed foreign ownership of U.S. baseball franchises, player's salaries, minorities in the front offices, drug use and gambling in professional sports. He also answered questions from the audience.
Type: Media
Photo Committee to focus on science visualizations, April 24
The April 24 meeting of the National Press Club Photography Committee will feature an illustrated talk by Holly Brown on the National Science Foundation's Vizzies Challenge. The Vizzies Challenge, formerly known as the Science Visualization Challenge, is a competition that challenges people to submit their best science and engineering visualizations -- photographs, drawings, computer animations, and more. The foundation notes that "some of science's most powerful statements have not been made in words: Da Vinci's 'Vitruvian Man,' Darwin's sketches of the evolutionary tree, ... Rosalind…
Type: News
Learn to navigate congressional website on April 19 with Library of Congress team
The National Press Club Journalism Institute and Club's Professional Development Team are offering a workshop on using the congress.gov website at 9.30 a.m. Thursday, April 19, in the Bloomberg Room. Congress.gov is the official public web site for legislative information and includes data for bills and resolutions, the Congressional Record, committee reports, nominations, treaties, and executive communications. Tickets are $5 each for Club members and $10 for the general public. Reservations are required and can be made online. The Library of Congress Congress.gov team will briefly discuss…
Type: News
Volunteers needed for Tuesday's journalism jobs panel
Volunteers are needed to check in attendees and offer tours to prospective members on Tuesday, April 17, when the National Press Club hosts a program on finding jobs in journalism. The session, to be held in the ballroom, features New York Times National Security Editor Amy Fiscus; Wall Street Journal reporter Brody Mullins; Politico Managing Editor Sudeep Reddy; Swati Sharma, deputy editor, TheAtlantic.com; and Vice News Washington Bureau Chief Shawna Thomas. Former Club President Tommy Burr will moderate the panel. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the panel discussion will begin at 7 p.m..…
Type: News
Practice yoga at the Club on April 24
Join National Press Club member and journalist Bara Vaida for a free yoga class on Tuesday, April 24, at 6 p.m. in the Cosgrove Lounge. Vaida first began practicing yoga 20 years ago as a way to manage the pressure of daily deadlines while covering Congress for National Journal. The class is free but space is limited. Please register online.
Type: News
Monday's Kalb Report to focus on Trump-Putin relationship
The relationship between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has become one of the defining issues of this administration. Marvin Kalb will lead a panel discussing the relationship between Trump and Putin on the next Kalb Report to be held at 8 p.m. Monday, April 16, in the National Press Club ballroom. Joining Kalb will be New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker; retired Marine Gen. John Allen, president of the Brookings Institution; Mary Louise Kelly, host of NPR’s “All Things Considered;” and Leon Aron, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.…
Type: News
California Gov. Jerry Brown to speak at Headliners Newsmaker on Tuesday
Outgoing California Gov. Jerry Brown will discuss how California has changed under his leadership and the challenges facing his successor and the nation at a National Press Club Headliners Newmaker at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 17, in the Zenger Room. Chief among those challenges, are rising deficits and crumbling infrastructure, and the ongoing and escalating threats posed by climate change and global nuclear proliferation, Brown said. This news conference is open to credentialed media and Club members free of charge. However, online registration is required. A California native and son of…
Type: News
Enjoy dinner and magic on Monday
Bring the family for dinner Monday at the Reliable Source Restaurant and then come see the free magic show starting at 7 p.m. Five members of the Society of American Magicians will be performing in the conference rooms with family-friendly magical entertainment. Get to the restaurant early so you don’t miss any of the show. Reserve your table for the Reliable Source at 202-662-7443; reserve your seat for the magic show at 202.-662-7501. No emails please.
Type: News
Senator Brown pushes pension rescue at Headliners Luncheon
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, made a strong appeal for federal help to prop up industry-wide pension plans for 1.5 million workers and retirees. He said the plans, most established under labor union contracts, are facing insolvency. Speaking April 12 at a National Press Club Headilners Luncheon, Brown said failure of the plans to pay promised benefits would not only harm those expecting them but would probably trigger a massive taxpayer bailout of the federal agency that insures worker pensions. The agency, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., already is confronting major deficits. Brown…
Type: News