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Press Club Rewind - 5.27.2013
May 27, 2013
Press Club Rewind is a weekly review of events at The National Press Club. In this week's edition: Tea Party activists recount their harassment by the IRS; Jessica Buchanan describes her kidnapping by Somali pirates and rescue in a heroic SEAL Team operation; Jon Huntsman expresses concern about…
Read MoreNPC Book & Author Event: Jessica Buchanan and Erik Landemalm
May 22, 2013
Jessica Buchanan and Erik Landemalm discuss "Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six” at a May 22, 2013 book event. The book details humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan’s kidnapping by Somali land pirates, her three months in captivity, her…
Read MorePress Club Rewind - 5.20.2013
May 20, 2013
Press Club Rewind is a weekly review of events at The National Press Club. In this week's edition: Astronaut Buzz Aldrin charts a course for the human exploration of Mars; Code Pink presses President Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center; parents hoping to adopt Russian orphans call on…
Read MorePress Club Rewind - 5.13.2013
May 13, 2013
Press Club Rewind is a weekly review of events at the National Press Club. In this weeks' edition: The father of a Navy SEAL blames the U.S. government for the incident that killed his son and 37 others in Afghanistan; The Center for Immigration Studies hosts a discussion of the nation's…
Read MoreNPC Book & Author Event: Buzz Aldrin
May 10, 2013
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin - the second man on the moon – and Leonard David discussed their new book, Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration, at the National Press Club on May 10, 2013. The book plots a proposed path for taking humans to Mars by 2035.
Read MoreNPC Book & Author Event: Richard Belzer
May 6, 2013
Actor Richard Belzer talks about "Hit List" May 6, 2013 at the National Press Club. The book is billed as an in-depth investigation into what some see as the mysterious deaths of people linked to the President John F. Kennedy assassination story. Belzer describes the assassination as the "greatest…
Read MorePress Club Rewind - 5.6.2013
May 6, 2013
Press Club Rewind is a weekly review of events at the National Press Club. In this weeks' edition: An array of UFO witnesses testify at the mock "Citizen Hearing on Disclosure," an event organized to pressure Congress to hold an official hearing; Emily’s List launches its "Madam President" campaign…
Read MoreThe New International Media: Filling A Vacuum or Pushing An Agenda?
May 2, 2013
The National Press Club’s Press Freedom Committee held a panel discussion on May 2, the night before World Press Freedom Day, about the growing role of media organizations that are at least partly government-funded. As the press in most western democracies has had to retrench in recent years,…
Read MorePress Club Rewind - 4.29.13
April 29, 2013
Press Club Rewind is a weekly review of events at the National Press Club. In this weeks' edition: The Heritage Foundation expresses concerns about security weaknesses exposed during the Boston bombing; The 2013 Report Card for America's Infrastructure paints a bleak picture; a National Press Club…
Read MoreNPC Newsmaker: Closing the Opportunity Gap
April 25, 2013
At a National Press Club Newsmakers news conference on April 25, 2013, the authors of a new book and education reform campaign called Closing the Opportunity Gap argued that the current intense emphasis on standardized test scores and other educational outcomes is counter-productive – as…
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