Thursday, December 15 , 2016 Webinar:How to Report on Hate Crimes Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, Noon ET/17:00 GMT What is the legal definition of a hate crime? Where is the bar for law officers to investigate, or to prosecute? How do journalists decide what is a hate crime versus an act of bullying, and therefore write about it? NPF Awards DinnerThe 2017 awards dinner will be held on Thursday, Feb. 16. It will bring together more than 950 journalists, media, public relations and corporate executives and policymakers – along with winners of our journalism awards! Make a difference for REAL journalism and sponsor the event. Visit our website for more details, or email jenny@nationalpress.org. Capitol Hill Issues Briefing: Covering the Trump Administration The National Press Foundation’s partners for this briefing are CQ Roll Call and the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism.What One-Party Control Means GOP Controls Both Congress and White House Republicans’ joy at one-party domination of Congress and the White House may be short-lived. “Unified Republican control is not a silver bullet,” said Sarah Binder, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution who has written four books on Congress. Protecting the Press Pool Will Constant Tension be the New Normal in White House-Media Relations? For reporters who cover the White House, things turned tense even before the next president has moved in. Those reporters are uncertain how their relationship with Donald Trump will envolve once the new president takes office in January 2017. Covering Executive Power A New President Enters the Oval Office With Vast Powers From the minute he walks into the White House, Donald Trump will have an array of powers at his disposal. It will allow him to stop or reverse many of the initiatives President Barack Obama put in place by dint of the executive powers that reside in the Oval Office. NPF seeks Program Manager Join the collegial NPF staff as Program Manager. This detail oriented, organized, and creative person works with the NPF Director of Training and Content on a variety of educational programs for journalists in Washington, D.C., around the U.S., in other countries and online. Here's the latest from Darrin Bell, winner of NPF's 2016 Clifford K. & James T. Berryman Award For Editorial Cartoons. For more of Bell's works, watch:http://bit.ly/2fjTq6I NPF Friends and Fellows Retirement Crisis: Seniors' Visions of the Future Halted By Recession, Cost of Living | Pat Ferrier | The Coloradoan (Fort Collins) | Retirement 2016 How Crisis Intervention Training Helps Police Deal With the Mentally Ill | Lisa Esposito | U.S. News & World Report | Mental Health 2016 Apply to AAJA Executive Leadership Program by Feb. 3, 2017 The 2017 Executive Leadership Program will be held at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in New York City from March 28 - April 1, 2017. More information here. |