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Hurricane experts to examine impact of last two years of storms at Newsmaker, Tuesday
With another damaging hurricane season in the books, two experts will discuss the impacts of the 2018 hurricane season and the status of the 2017 season's rebuilding effort at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 10 a.m. in the Zenger Room. Scheduled to speak are National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration hurricane forecasting expert Gerry Bell and Massachusetts Institute of Technology disaster resilience expert Jeremy Gregory. The event is open to credentialed media and Club members free of charge. Registration is required. Bell, a hurricane climate…
Type: News
Restructuring the Postal Service
Mr. Runyon, a former vice president in the Ford Motor Company, spoke on reform proposals for the U.S. Postal Service to improve its efficiency and reduce its costs. Following his prepared remarks, Mr. Runyon responded to questions from the audience.
Type: Media
Club member Bill Lord to discuss book on Vietnam War at American Legion Post 20 meeting, Jan. 30
Vietnam veteran and author Bill Lord will be guest speaker at the next meeting of American Legion Post 20, a National Press Club affiliate, at noon Wednesday, Jan. 30, in the McClendon Room. The speaker portion of the meeting is open to all Club members. Lord, a Club member, will discuss his recently published book, "50 Years After Vietnam: Lessons and Letters from the War I Hated Fighting." Lord has been a television news reporter, foreign correspondent and news manager. His final position in his long television news career was general manager of ABC affiliate WJLA-TV in Washington.…
Type: News
Latest Club podcast explores newsletters with creators of two of them
In the latest episode of the National Press Club podcast, Update-1, Club members Michael Yessis and Molly McCluskey discuss everything newsletters -– the ones they read, what they’ve learned by starting their own and advice for future newsletter creators. Yessis is the founder and editor of "This Week in Podcast," (@WeekinPodcasts), a newsletter that offers a weekly roundup of the best and latest podcast episodes listeners might have missed. McCluskey is the creator of "Diplomatica" (@DiplomaticaDC), a multimedia exploration into the hidden histories of diplomatic properties in Washington…
Type: News
National Press Club in History: The Cold War ends in the Ballroom
In July 1989, three years after Soviet Union Premier Mikhail Gorbachev took office, his military advisor, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, told an astounded National Press Club Luncheon audience that Soviet satellites Poland and Hungary were free to go their own ways. Akhromeyev was in the United States on a goodwill tour with Adm. William Crowe, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as Gorbachev’s Glasnost Policy to reform the Soviet Union was beginning to take hold. Club President Peter Holmes of the Washington Times asked him if Gorbachev had abandoned the previous policy that allowed military…
Type: News
Headliners Book Event for media diversity pioneer Dorothy Butler Gilliam, Thursday
Legendary civil rights journalist and activist Dorothy Butler Gilliam will share her aptly titled new memoir, "Trailblazer: A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America," at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, in the conference rooms. The event, originally scheduled for Jan. 14, will feature a presentation by Gilliam, an audience question-and-answer session and a book signing. Tickets are $5 for Club members and $10 for the general public. When purchasing tickets online, attendees will also have the option of purchasing…
Type: News
House and Bar Team to meet, noon Monday
The National Press Club House and Bar Team has scheduled its next meeting for noon Monday, Jan. 14, in the Cosgrove Lounge.
Type: News
As 12th anniversary of Virginia Tech massacre approaches, author discusses what happened to victims, gun policies at Headliners Book Event, April 4
As the 12th anniversary of the Virginia Tech mass shooting approaches, a shooting survivor and a journalist who chronicled its aftermath will speak at a National Press Club Headliners Book Event on Thursday, April 4. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. in the conference rooms. Thomas Kapsidelis will discuss his newly published book, "After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings," which chronicles the aftermath of the April 16, 2007, rampage by a lone gunman that killed 32 Virginia Tech students and professors. It was the deadliest mass shooting on a college campus. He…
Type: News
CVS Health CEO to address Aetna acquisition, health-care challenges at Headliners Luncheon, Jan. 14
Following CVS Health’s recent $69 billion acquisition of Aetna, which created one of the largest health-care combinations in U.S. history, CVS Health President and CEO Larry Merlo will discuss how his company plans to address the current challenges in today’s health care system at a National Press Club Headliners Luncheon Monday, Jan. 14. Overcoming these challenges, Merlo argues, requires transforming the system from within -- centering it on the needs of individuals to help them achieve their best health at a lower cost. Merlo will lay out how CVS Health plans to play a significant role…
Type: News
Club's January general membership meeting scheduled Friday, Jan. 11
The National Press Club’s annual January general membership meeting will be held Friday, Jan. 11, at noon. Please join us as Club President Andrea Edney passes the gavel to President-elect Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak. Lunch will be served. The meeting will be livestreamed through the Club’s website for members unable to attend in person.
Type: News