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Tickets still available for March 26 Headliners Luncheon featuring Katie Ledecky
Don’t miss your chance to hear from Katie Ledecky, one of the most-decorated female swimmers in the history of the sport. Ledecky plans to share her plans for future competition, including the 2020 Summer games in Tokyo, at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon on Monday, March 26. Lunch will be served in the Club’s Ballroom 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 Club members (members may purchase two tickets at this rate) and $39 for all other non-members. Tickets may be purchased here. At just 20…
Type: News
NPC's Reliable Source announces April events
The National Press Club's Reliable Source is announcing the following events for April: Thursday, April 5: NPC Young Members Happy Hour – 5:30 p.m. – Truman Lounge Thursday, April 12: NPC Pub Quiz – 7 p.m. – Truman Lounge Monday, April 16 Magic Show – 7 p.m. – There will be a special food and beverage menu Thursday, April 19: – Prime Rib Dinner with a glass of champagne starting at 5:30 p.m. – Reliable Source Tuesday, April 24: Yoga at NPC 6 p.m. – Cosgrove Lounge
Type: News
National Press Club files friend-of-the-court brief in Mexican journalist's asylum case
Urging the U.S. government not to "break with this Nation's long and proud tradition of providing safe refuge to journalists, authors and commentators who criticize corrupt government officials," the National Press Club, its nonprofit Journalism Institute and 15 other professional journalism organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief March 19 before the Board of Immigration Appeals in support of Emilio Gutiérrez-Soto's asylum case. The filing represents the latest step in a four-month effort to free Gutiérrez, winner of the Club's 2017 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award. A Mexican…
Type: News
National Press Club extends deadline for journalism contest to April 16
The National Press Club has extended the deadline for its annual journalism contest to Monday, April 16. Awards for the best work published in 2017 in breaking news, political coverage, broadcast news, consumer news, online news, foreign coverage and news photos are among those being offered. Many of the categories have cash prizes and some offer a year of free Club membership. Details on the categories and the prizes are here. Entrants are encouraged to use the online-entry method, but if you prefer, the Club will accept entries mailed in the traditional way as long as they are postmarked…
Type: News
National Press Club cancels Headliners Book Rap featuring late Justice Scalia's son
The National Press Club is canceling the Headliners Book Rap featuring Christopher Scalia and the book Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law, Faith, and Life Well Lived, scheduled for Tuesday, March 20.
Type: News
Owls book Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles to headline Hoot April 26
Tom Toles, the Pulitzer-Prize winning editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post, will headline the Silver Owls’ Spring Hoot at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in the National Press Club ballroom. The Hoot is open to all Club members and their guests. Tickets are $35, which covers one of the Club’s superb sit-down dinners, preceded by a cash bar. Reservations can be made at on the Club's website, by calling 202-662-7501 or emailing [email protected]. Toles plans to discuss the current state of the art of editorial and political cartooning. He worked for the Buffalo Courier-Express and the…
Type: News
Author gives behind-the-scenes look at book on Hulk Hogan/Gawker lawsuit
Ryan Holiday became more sympathetic to Gawker than he expected as he researched and wrote Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, a book about the suit against the website’s publication of a sex tape, he told a National Press Club Headliners Book Rap on March 15. “I came away easily being able to see both sides,” Holiday told former Club President Angela Greiling Keane, who interviewed him at the event. In Washington to promote the book, Holiday shared insights from his in-depth research and interviews with some of the key players involved in the 2016…
Type: News
NPC's American Legion Post 20 members judge oratorical contest, award scholarship
National Press Club members judged an annual oratorical contest that awarded a $1,500 college scholarship to a D.C. high-school student on Saturday, March 17, at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. Brian Gray, Tom Young and William Watson selected Woodrow Wilson sophomore Elie Salen for the scholarship given by the D.C. Department of the American Legion. Gray and Young are members of American Legion Post 20, affiliated with the Club for many decades, and Watson is a former vice commander of the post. Salen will represent D.C. in national…
Type: News
National Press Club Events Committee plans meeting for Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m.
The National Press Club Events Committee plans to meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 20, in the Reliable Source's Truman Lounge to discuss upcoming events and potential future events. If you have an idea for the committee, please take a minute to fill out this short form. It is only four questions and will help make the meeting more efficient for everyone. If you'd like a volunteer with helping to plan one of the current events we have in the works, or are just curious to see what we're planning, feel free to join.
Type: News
Free Expression
Prior to Mr. Schorr's speech, Ms. Townsend presented the Robert F. Kennedy awards for outstanding journalistic coverage of the disadvantaged. Mr. Schorr addressed the National Press Club luncheon as part of the forum entitled, "Free Expression and Global Media: Barriers and Boundaries."
Type: Media