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Reliable Source hosts Vice Presidential Debate Watch Party, Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 8:30 p.m.
National Press Club members and their guests are invited to watch the 2016 Vice Presidential Debate with Democratic Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence in the Reliable Source's Truman Lounge on Tuesday, Oct. 4 at 8:30 p.m. The Reliable Source plans to offer a theme food and beverage menu available. Reservation are encouraged by contacting at 202-662-7443 or e-mail [email protected].
Type: News
Press Club members casting call: Sign up to participate in NPC's Got Talent Night
Attention National Press Club members! This is a casting call for our premier NPC’s Got Talent show, and we want YOU to show us what you got! We know some of you out there can sing, dance, perform a musical instrument, juggle and make people laugh, among other talents. Now you can showcase your talent live and on stage in the NPC's Ballroom to fellow members and friends on Friday, Nov. 11. What’s involved on your part? Singers, instrumentalists, dancers, storytellers, poets, comedians and other performers with artist talent yearning to be seen and heard can sign up by either calling or…
Type: News
Find support for your foreign reporting idea at National Press Club panel tonight
Do you have an idea for a story out of Africa, South America or just about anywhere in the world? While many news outlets no longer facilitate foreign reporting trips and have scaled back their foreign bureaus, there are organizations that are picking up that slack, helping foreign correspondents report on the ground -- just as reporters were meant to. The International Correspondents and Freelancers Committees of the National Press Club are co-sponsoring an evening discussion tonight, Sept. 29, on the topic of finding grants to support your international reporting project. The event is…
Type: News
Amtrak at Twenty
Graham Claytor, president of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation and head of Amtrak, spoke to a National Press Club luncheon on the twentieth anniversary of Amtrak, the national passenger rail system. When Amtrak began, it inherited a number of crumbling, financially strapped railroad companies which were operating with huge deficits. Today, Amtrak boasts a record number of annual passenger miles, operates at only 23 percent of the annual loss of 1970, and aims to break even by the year 2000. Mr. Claytor discussed the beginnings and traced the history of Amtrak from 1970 until today.…
Type: Media
Did You Know: Press Club members can join the State Department Federal Credit Union?
Did you know that National Press Club members can join the State Department Federal Credit Union? Any member can open an account with the State Department Federal Credit Union, which features lifetime memberships with only a $1 deposit, free checking accounts, low-interest loans and high-yield savings, money management and certificate accounts, just to name a few. Applications are available in the general office or you can contact the membership department to receive it by mail. Click here for information about the benefits of joining the credit union. For more information about your…
Type: News
Part Two: Gen. Hayden discusses intelligence gathering, constitutional protections
This edition of Update-1, the National Press Club's podcast, features part two of a two-episode conversation with Gen. Michael Hayden. NPC Board Member Molly McCluskey talks with the former NSA and CIA director about how journalists can effectively work with the intelligence community and the future of intelligence in the United States. General Hayden is the author of Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror. Update-1 is produced by Mike Hempen. The podcast can be heard here on the NPC website or on iTunes, Sticher and Tunein.
Type: News
My 65 years in journalism - 42 of them with the AP; It all began in junior high school
Former NPC President Myron Belkind gave a presentation about his life in journalism at the Watergate South Speakers Series on Sept. 18. Here is the edited text of his remarks: I want to begin by taking you back to 65 years ago this month, when I heard an announcement on the public-address system at a new junior high school on the east side of Cleveland. I was 11 years old, and the announcement said: 'Anyone who wants to work on the new junior high school newspaper, please stay after school' - and that is what I did ... and continued to do throughout my career, often coming home late due to…
Type: News
National Press Club Book Rap reveals stolen art secrets, cultural impacts
The longtime director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore riveted a National Press Club Book Rap audience Sept. 27 with his journey of discovery into the netherworld of stolen art and its cultural impacts. Gary Vikan, director of the museum from 1994 to 2013, used his new book Sacred and Stolen: Confessional of a Museum Art Director, to describe “the messy underbelly of museum life: looted antiquities, crooked dealers, deluded collectors, duplicitous public officials, inside thefts and failed exhibitions.” Vikan, born in small town Minnesota and holder of a doctorate from Princeton,…
Type: News
NPC's Reliable Source announces October events
The Reliable Source at the National Press Club is planning the following events in October: Tuesday, Oct. 4: Vice Presidential Debate Watch Party at 8:30 p.m. in the Truman Lounge Thursday, Oct. 13: NPC Pub Quiz Night at 7 p.m. in the Truman Lounge Friday, Oct. 14: Oktoberfest Buffet with German Music Night at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19: Third Presidential Debate Watch Party at 8:30 p.m. in the Truman Lounge
Type: News
Tickets still available for Friday Speakers Luncheon with WTO Director-General Azevêdo
World Trade Organization Director-General Roberto Azevêdo plans to speak at a National Press Club Speakers Luncheon on Friday, Oct. 7. Azevêdo became the sixth Director-General of the WTO in September 2013. In a recent statement, the WTO said that world trade will grow more slowly than expected in 2016. Azevêdo said the forecast is “serious and should serve as a wake-up call.” He called it “particularly concerning in the context of growing anti-globalization sentiment.” 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…
Type: News