Press Freedom
Deadline Monday: Tell President Biden to bring journalist Austin Tice home to his family
April 15, 2021
Award-winning journalist, veteran Marine Corps captain, and Georgetown Law student Austin Tice has been detained in Syria since 2012. Please join the #FreeAustinTice campaign for his safe, swift return by encouraging your Members of Congress to send a letter to President Biden pressing him to make…
Read MoreTell President Biden to bring Austin Tice home to his family
April 6, 2021
The family of award-winning journalist Austin Tice, who has been detained in Syria since 2012 while covering escalating conflict in the region, needs your help to urge President Joe Biden to free Austin and bring him safely home. Tice, a writer and photographer, veteran Marine Corps captain, and…
Read MorePress leaders call for immediate release of AP photographer
March 4, 2021
In this image made from video taken on Feb. 27, Associated Press journalist Thein Zaw is arrested by police in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo credit: Yahoo News The following is a statement by National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and National Press Club Journalism Institute President…
Read MoreU.S. Press Leaders Call For Immediate Release of AP Photographer Thein Zaw
March 4, 2021
WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The following is a statement by National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and National Press Club Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane on the arrest and detention of AP Photographer Thein Zaw in Myanmar: We call on authorities in Myanmar to release,…
Read MoreClub leaders urge Congress to hold hearings on just-released Khashoggi report
February 27, 2021
National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane issued the following statement on Friday on the release by the United States government of a long-awaited report on the murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi: Ever since his…
Read MorePress Club Leaders urge Congress to hold hearings on just-released Khashoggi Report
February 26, 2021
WASHINGTON – The following is a statement by National Press Club President Lisa Nicole Matthews and National Press Club Journalism Institute President Angela Greiling Keane on the release by the United States government of a long-awaited report on the murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal…
Read MoreClub to Poland's leaders: Hands off free press
February 14, 2021
National Press Club leaders, in a Feb. 12 statement, urged Poland’s government to halt a recent campaign to undermine independent news organizations there. The anti-press effort by Poland’s right-wing government follows the lead of a largely completed push in Hungary to ensure its citizens only see…
Read MoreU.S. Journalists to Poland’s Leaders: Hands Off Free Press
February 12, 2021
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2021-- National Press Club leaders, in a statement Friday, urged Poland’s government to halt a recent campaign to undermine independent news organizations there. The anti-press effort by Poland’s right-wing government follows the lead of a largely completed push in Hungary to…
Read MoreU.S. Press Leaders Urge India to Release Long-Jailed Journalist
February 8, 2021
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2021--National Press Club leaders spoke out Monday to urge the government of India to release from prison Aasif Sultan, a Kashmiri journalist who has been unjustly detained for two and a half years. Sultan, a writer for the Kashmir Narrator, was arrested in August 2018 on an…
Read MoreClub urges India to release long-jailed journalist, Aubuchon Award winner
February 8, 2021
The National Press Club spoke out Monday to urge the government of India to release from prison Aasif Sultan, a Kashmiri journalist who has been unjustly detained for two and a half years. Sultan, a writer for the Kashmir Narrator, was arrested in August 2018 on an unwarranted charge of harboring…
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