Go inside Portland protests with AP reporter and Club member Mike Balsamo on Sept. 16

Join a Zoom conversation with Mike Balsamo, an Associated Press reporter covering the Justice Department, as he describes what it was like covering two executions of federal inmates and the protests in Portland.

Tune in at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16. For Zoom instructions to join the call, email National Press Club Board member and Los Angeles Times reporter Del Wilber at [email protected]

Balsamo, a Club member, said it best in a Tweet thread: "I spent the weekend inside the Portland federal courthouse w/ the US Marshals. Mortars were being fired off repeatedly, fireworks & flares shot into the lobby, frozen bottles, concrete, cans & bouncy balls regularly whizzed over the fence at high speeds."