The National Press Club

The state of (financial) affairs in the news biz was the subject of an NPR Marketplace story on Wednesday.

Gil Klein, former Club president who spent last year conducting panel discussions nationwide on behalf of the Club to assess the changes in the industry and how they affect the First Amendment, was interviewed.

Here's a link: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/01/28/pm_dc_newslett...

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Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, Senate Republican leader, echoed President Barack Obama’s inaugural pledge of bipartisanship at a Jan. 23 Club Luncheon but didn’t hesitate to make his own points as well.

He expressed disapproval of the plan to close the Guantanamo prison and advocated loans, not grants, to states in the stimulus package.

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The waiver of the initiation fee for new Club members will continue through 2009.

The Board of Governors approved continuing the waiver, which was originally implemented during the Club’s Centennial year, at its first meeting of 2009 on Friday following the membership meeting.

Membership Secretary Mark Hamrick said the waiver had proved to be “a very successful recruitment tool.”

The Board also approved the applications of 84 new members:

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Halting the rearmament of Hamas, the militant government that controls Gaza, is crucial to a cease fire, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said at a Newsmaker Friday at the Club.

She was in Washington to meetd with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to sign an accord with the U.S. aimed at halting weapons smuggling across Egypt's border with Gaza.

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Despite temperatures that dipped to 10 degrees, more than 80 NPC Members turned out for the annual membership Meeting on Friday to review "an extraordinary Centennial year" under outgoing President Sylvia Smith and to prepare for a "challenging" 2009 led by new President Donna Leinwand.

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Posted by Ryan Howell - 01/19/2009 | Email the editor
News Outlets "Fighting for Survival," Yet Young People Seek Jobs in News

For the Club’s Centennial, you sent me across the nation to hold forums on the First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of Journalism. At every stop, I gathered leading journalists from print, broadcast and the Internet as well as journalism scholars and First Amendment authorities.

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NPC member Joe Enoch (2008 recipient of the Berny Krug Award for his work as co-chairman of the Events Committee) now works for Inside Edition in New York. Here are excerpts from an email he sent yesterday:

I saw that plane descend from my office and ended up shooting footage of survivors on the plane's wing in the Hudson and later being carted off in stretchers.

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James Mulva does not yet drive a plug-in or hybrid car, but at a Jan. 13 luncheon, the chairman and CEO of ConocoPhillips was adamant that the Obama administration focus on the energy opportunities.

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Remarks by President Sylvia Smith Tuesday as 35 Club members received awards for their spirit of generosity in volunteering time and talent to the NPC in 2008:

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Remarks from President Sylvia Smith Tuesday evening as she presented the Berny Krug Award to the 2008 co-chairs of the Events Committee, Frederica Dunn and Joe Enoch:

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