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Photos: Jan. 27, 2020 NPC Briefing on Austin Tice
January 27, 2020
Debra Tice, the mother of detained journalist Austin Tice, held a news conference on Jan. 27, 2020 at the National Press Club to provide an update and to be part of the announcement of the second annual Night Out For Austin Tice, a national awareness campaign.
Photos: Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch
December 9, 2019
Lonnie G. Bunch III, the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian and the first African American to hold the office in its nearly 175-year history, discussed his vision for the institution and signed copies of his book, “A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture…
Photos: NPC Newsmaker with Marianne Williamson
October 24, 2019
Marianne Williamson, seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, spoke at a National Press Club Newsmaker event on Oct. 24, 2019. Ms. Williamson outlined her proposal to create a cabinet-level U.S. Department of Peace, that she said would contain both domestic and international elements,…
Photos: Andrew Yang NPC Newsmaker Event
October 21, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate, author and entrepreneur Andrew Yang spoke at a National Press Club Newsmaker event on October 21, 2019. Yang talked about his “Humanity First” platform, including his flagship proposal, the Freedom Dividend, human-centered capitalism, and the mounting crisis of…
Photos: Gerry Adams
October 16, 2019
Gerry Adams TD, Former Sinn Féin President and an architect of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement (GFA), discussed the threat he believes Brexit poses to Ireland’s peace, progress and prosperity, and addressed increasing calls for an Irish Unity referendum at a National Press Club Headliners…
Photos: Fired for Being Gay
October 8, 2019
Gerald Lynn Bostock, the plaintiff named in the case of BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, was fired from his job as a county child welfare services coordinator when his employer learned he joined a gay recreational softball league. Bostock and his attorneys Brian J. Sutherland and Thomas J. Mew,…
Photos: Journalism Under Threat in Nicaragua
September 25, 2019
On September 25, 2019, the NPC’s International Correspondents Committee (ICC) and Press Freedom Team convened an event on media suppression in Nicaragua. Fresh from testifying at the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR), a delegation of four Nicaraguan journalists - three of whom…