This Week in National Press Club History: A world without C-Span?

Jan. 2, 1980: Fledging cable network C-Span covers its first NPC luncheon, which featured Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Twenty-two years later, in 2002, C-Span founder Brian Lamb receives the Club’s Fourth Estate Award for his lifetime of contributions to journalism.

Jan. 6, 1926: The Ebbitt Hotel is demolished to make way for the new National Press Building. The hotel’s famous bar is salvaged and today stands in the Old Ebbitt Grill, just up the street. The National Press Club moves into its new quarters in December 1927.

This Week In National Press Club History is brought to you by the Club’s History & Heritage Committee, which preserves and revitalizes the Club’s history through displays, events, panel discussions and its oral history project.

For more information about the History & Heritage Committee and its activities or to join the committee, contact Bill Hickman at [email protected].