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Update-1 podcast reveals tips to land freelance journalism gigs
Freelance journalists need to complement their research and writing skills with relationship management and social media content expertise as well, according to Industry Dive editor Randy Lilleston and freelance health reporter Joya Patel. Lilleston and Patel were involved in panel discussions recently as part of the National Press Club's latest installment of its freelance workshop series. They then spoke with Broadcast Committee member Stephanie Gailhard for the Club’s Update-1 podcast. Update-1 is produced by Mike Hempen with assistance from Adam Konowe.
Type: News
Country Music artists Kristian Bush, Charlie Worsham to perform, promote music education, June 22
Country music artists Kristian Bush and Charlie Worsham will give an acoustic performance and conduct a media availability regarding the Country Music Association (CMA) Foundation's Music Education Initiative at 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 22, at the National Press Club. Tickets are $15 for guests and the general public; Club members are eligible for one free ticket. You must be 21 years of age or older to attend. Find more For information and register online. The CMA Foundation is joining the National Association for Music Education's annual fly-in, which brings artists and other music industry…
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National Press Club lauds congressional action on transparency
The National Press Club president congratulated Congress Tuesday for sending the president legislation aimed at making the federal government more transparent. The bill, which would strengthen the Freedom of Information Act, is known as the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016. The Senate passed the bill in March and the House approved it Monday, sending it to the president's desk for him to sign into law. The measure would place the burden on federal agencies to justify withholding information instead of on the requester to justify release. It would require that disclosure of data be timely,…
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Girl Scouts plan to lobby for investment in girls
Girl Scouts from around the country plan to go to Capitol Hill June 14 to advocate on behalf of investing in girls. “People give more to animal causes today than to girl causes,” Anna Maria Chávez, chief executive of Girl Scouts of the USA, said at a June 13 National Press Club luncheon. “I have a brand new puppy …. He is a wonderful dog but he will not be the president of the United States one day, a Girl Scout will be.” Only 7 cents of every dollar contributed to charity goes to those focusing on women and girls, Chávez said. She leads an organization that has 59 million living alums. A…
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Take your best shot: Photo exhibit entries due Aug. 12
The National Press Club's 17th annual Members Photography Exhibit is rapidly approaching, so it's time to choose up to four of your best images to display. Entries for the exhibit are accepted beginning on Monday, Aug. 1, through Friday, Aug. 12, in the Club's Membership Office. Pro and amateur photographers in the membership are welcome to take part. The exhibit is a display of Club members' photographic talent, but is not a contest. Photos submitted for display will be hung by the Club's Photography Committee on Aug. 31 and will remain on display though Sept. 30. The exhibit's opening…
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Mike Marlow, broadcast journalist, producer inspired "White House Chronicle," 89
Michael J. "Mike" Marlow, a radio and television announcer and producer and 62-year member of the National Press Club, died May 28 at his home in Ashburn, Va. He was 89. Mike was only 14 when he started his on-air career as a sportscaster at his hometown radio station, WHK-WCLE in Cleveland, and WMRA, Canton, Ohio. A long career at CBS included being executive producer of Face the Nation and producer of the network's Television Morning Show, Washington Conversation, Capitol Cloakroom, At the Source, Congressional Close-Up, Capitol Hill to California and Will Rogers Morning Program. Other…
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NTSB Chair Christopher Hart to discuss self-driving cars at June 30 luncheon
National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart will address the role of automation in preventing transportation accidents and will apply lessons learned in aviation to the development of self-driving cars at a National Press Club luncheon June 30. Hart will talk about new technology in transportation with special emphasis on self-driving cars and how lessons from past investigation experience can help to prevent accidents. Hart has served as NTSB chairman since April 2014. Before a long career at NTSB, Hart was a deputy director for air traffic safety oversight at the Federal…
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Issues Facing the 102nd Congress
Speaker Foley said that he felt the 102nd Congress will be a very important session because of the Persian Gulf war and the subsequent post-war recovery. He explained that the congress did fully debate the decision to give the President full authority to conduct the war. Speaker Foley described the nation's post-war concerns as being education, physical infrastructure, drug control, family and domestic issues, health care, and the economy. He said that the U.S. will need to take care of its own domestic concerns and not be the primary overseer of the "international community of devastation…
Type: Media
Newsmaker features former chief prosecutor for Guantánamo, June 17
Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor for the Guantánamo military commissions, who later spoke out publicly against the treatment of inmates imprisoned there, will address a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference at 10 a.m. Friday, June 17, in the Zenger Room. Davis recently settled a lawsuit against the Library of Congress, which had fired him for writing newspaper opinion pieces criticizing the Obama administration’s decision to resume use of the military commissions system. Davis was terminated from his position as an assistant director of the Congressional Research Service in…
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Philadelphia mayor, convention CEO and host committee director to discuss Democratic convention at June 21 Newsmaker
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Democratic National Convention CEO Leah Daughtry and Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee Executive Director Kevin Washo will discuss the upcoming convention and take questions from the media at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference at 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 21, in the Bloomberg Room. Club President Thomas Burr will moderate. Jim Kenney became Philadelphia’s Mayor in January 2016. Prior to his election, he served as Councilman-at-Large, where he worked with his colleagues to bring the convention to Philadelphia. The Mayor also served on the council when the…
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