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Tales from the National Press Club Kindle Edition

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A behind-the-scenes history of the organization behind the White House Correspondents’ Dinner—and the news-breakers and newsmakers who’ve been part of it.
 
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the National Press Club has been the hub of Washington journalism. Started by reporters as a watering hole for late-night card games, the Club soon attracted not only icons from Edward R. Murrow to Bob Woodward to Helen Thomas, but every US president from Theodore Roosevelt onward, and various newsmakers who shaped American and world history.
 
While adapting to changes in the news media, it continues to stand for the values of journalism and press freedom in the twenty-first century. Now journalist and longtime member Gil Klein tells just a few of the tales that stand out in the history of the Club, which CBS commentator Eric Sevareid once called “the only hallowed place I know of that’s absolutely bursting with irreverence.”
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    April 27, 2020
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Gil Klein has been a national correspondent and a journalism educator since arriving in Washington from the Tampa Tribune in 1985 to write for the Media General News Service. He was elected National Press Club president for 1994 and worked on two previous Club histories. He is now coordinator of the University of Oklahoma's Washington journalism program and its Gaylord News Bureau and is the author of Trouble in Lafayette Square: Assassination, Protest & Murder at the White House.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B085N5QFKX
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The History Press (April 27, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 27, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 12051 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 211 pages

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Gil Klein

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Gil Klein is a journalist and journalism educator in Washington DC. Beginning his career at the Tampa Tribune, he arrived in Washington in 1985 to start 22 years as a national correspondent for the Media General News Service. He was the 1994 president of the National Press Club and now is its historian, producing its most recent history, "Tales from the National Press Club." (2020) He is director of the University of Oklahoma's Washington Journalism Program and chief of its Gaylord News Washington Bureau. His avocation is American history, and he wrote his first book, "Trouble in Lafayette Square: Assassination, Protest and Murder at the White House" (2018) after spending years walking to work through the Square, collecting stories about its past. He is a graduate of Rollins College and earned a master's degree in communication at American University, where he taught journalism for eight years beginning in 2010 in its Washington Semester Program. He and his wife, Gail, live in Arlington, Va. and have two grown children.

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