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Job openings: Pew offers communicator jobs in health, conservation
June 28, 2020
The Pew Charitable Trusts has job openings for an experienced mid-career communications officer to work on their environmental science portfolio and an early career senior associate position to work on public health issues. The communications officer position would report to a director of…
Read MoreClub's indie authors to learn benefits of beta readers, July 9
June 28, 2020
The National Press Club's informal group of independent authors will concentrate on beta readers at its next meeting, Thursday, July 9, at 9:30 a.m. on Zoom. The special guest speaker will be Sandra Beckwith, owner of BuildBookBuzz.com. She is an author and national award-winning former publicist…
Read MoreClub establishes fund to support furloughed staff
June 26, 2020
The National Press Club has created a fund to help staff members who have been furloughed due to a slowdown in business operations caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Donations can be made to the NPC Staff Support Fund. The money collected will be converted into gift cards that can be used to buy…
Read MoreTed Rowse, NPC press criticism 'minuteman,' authors NY Times op-ed as he turns 100
June 24, 2020
Ted Rowse as a young reporter and as National Press Club centenarian today. Arthur E. (Ted) Rowse, a native of Lexington, Mass., is the minuteman of press criticism at the National Press Club. In 1996, Rowse established an award in his name in the Club’s annual Journalism Contest to…
Read MoreNational Press Club in History: YOU are making history!
June 24, 2020
May you live in interesting times. That old ironic curse is never more relevant than in the year 2020. Of course, journalists thrive in “interesting times,” but the first six months of this year have been remarkable. Since the Club suspended in-service activities March 16, we have not had a…
Read MorePhoto Committee to feature next generation news photographers, July 1
June 21, 2020
At its next meeting, the National Press Club's Photography Committee will hear from two early-career, yet award-winning photojournalists. The virtual event happens at 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 1, and is open to all Club members, with free advance online registration requested. The July 1 virtual…
Read MoreAWWNM postpones June 24 event to September
June 19, 2020
The noon June 24 meeting in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club's Reliable Source, featuring scholar Mary Jo Binker speaking on the journalistic writings of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, is postponed to noon on Sept. 23. The event is sponsored by the eight-year old nonprofit American Women…
Read MoreBack again! Virtual Pub Quiz set for Thursday, June 18, 7 p.m.
June 16, 2020
You know the expression “third time’s a charm?” Well, the National Press Club’s third Virtual Pub Quiz – set for June 18 at 7 p.m. is sure to be one heck of an appealing shindig of online trivia and social levity, all from the comfort (or confines) of your home. Although the world is still social…
Read MoreSpace program broadcaster calls Dragon spacecraft 'natural follow on to Apollo'
June 5, 2020
Retired space program broadcast coverage veteran Jim Slade called the new Dragon spacecraft launch of American astronauts "a natural follow on to Apollo." Slade told the National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast Team members Thursday that the SpaceX manned launch to the International Space Station, the…
Read MoreNonfiction Authors Association CEO to address Club's indie authors June 11
June 4, 2020
The club's informal group of independent authors will get an insider's view of the publishing world on Thursday, June 11, when it hears from Stephanie Chandler, CEO of the Nonfiction Authors Association. The meeting takes place via Zoom beginning at 9:30 a.m. Chandler is the author of several books…
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