NPC -- Announcement of Fallen Journalists Memorial and Foundation:
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Description of Pictures: WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 25, 2019) – Ahead of the first anniversary of the Capital Gazette shooting in Annapolis, Maryland, the National Press Club Journalism Institute will announce plans to establish, in partnership with the Tribune Publishing Company, the Annenberg Foundation and the Michael and Jacky Ferro Foundation, a permanent memorial in Washington, D.C. to honor journalists who have died in the line of duty. Details on the announcement event are as follows:
WHAT: Announcement of Fallen Journalists Memorial and Foundation
Speakers in Sequence::
* The Honorable David Dreier, Chairman, Tribune Publishing Company
* Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD)
* Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK)
* Donald Graham, former Publisher, The Washington Post
* Senator Rob Portman (R-OH)
* Ms. Barbara Cochran, President, Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation
* Rick Hutzell, Editor, Capital Gazette Communications
ABOUT THE FALLEN JOURNALISTS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: The Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation (FJM Foundation) will work to enact legislation, raise funds and build a Fallen Journalists Memorial on federal land in Washington, D.C. that will pay tribute to the reporters, photographers and broadcasters who have died while performing their jobs as journalists. The FJM Foundation will operate under the auspices of the National Press Club Journalism Institute (NPCJI), which is the non-profit affiliate of the National Press Club. Learn more at www.fallenjournalists.org
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JMEM1_190626_045.JPG: Congressman Tom Cole (R-OK)
JMEM1_190626_071.JPG: Amanda Bennett
JMEM1_190626_078.JPG: Tom Cole, David Dreier
JMEM1_190626_082.JPG: Amanda Bennett, Tom Cole
JMEM1_190626_085.JPG: Tom Cole, David Dreier, Ben Cardin
JMEM1_190626_141.JPG: David Dreier, Chairman, Tribune Publishing Company
JMEM1_190626_167.JPG: Rick Hutzell, Editor, Capital Gazette Communications
JMEM1_190626_233.JPG: Clarence Page (right)
JMEM1_190626_392.JPG: Andrew Kreig
JMEM2_190626_010.JPG: Donald Graham, former Publisher, The Washington Post
JMEM2_190626_092.JPG: Clarence Page, Barbara Cochran, Amanda Bennett
JMEM2_190626_142.JPG: Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), David Dreier
JMEM2_190626_174.JPG: Clarence Page, Barbara Cochran, Amanda Bennett, Donald Graham
JMEM2_190626_179.JPG: On June 26, 2019, Amanda Bennett, the director of the Voice of America, appeared at the National Press Club (here with Clarence Page, Barbara Cochran, and Donald Graham), to support the creation of the Fallen Journalists Memorial and Foundation. It had been one year since an armed nutjob had killed five staff at the Capital Gazette. (After the murders, the child president, who called the press the "enemy of the people", initially refused to have US flags lowered to half-staff but later partially relented.) The proposed memorial is to be a permanent memorial in Washington DC to honor journalists who have died in the line of duty.
On Monday, June 15, 2020, Amanda and deputy director Sandy Sugawara both stepped down from their leadership roles at the VOA. Trump had finally forced through a controversial conservative hack, Michael Pack, to take over the group that oversees the VOA. This was after he denounced the VOA's Covid-19 coverage for not being partial enough in his favor against China. In a banana republic, all voices have to echo the sentiments of the great leader.
I doubt the new guy will be promoting the journalist memorial much. I suspect the child president thinks there are good people on both sides when it comes to killing journalists.
JMEM2_190626_228.JPG: The Honorable David Dreier, Chairman, Tribune Publishing Company
JMEM2_190626_271.JPG: Barbara Cochran, President, Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation
JMEM2_190626_279.JPG: Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak (second from right)
JMEM2_190626_418.JPG: Donald Graham, David Dreier, Clarence Page, Barbara Cochran
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Bennett, Amanda appears on:
2023_09_11A1_Bennett DC -- USC/PDC/PDAA -- First Monday Forum: USAGM: Looking to the Future (w/Amanda Bennett)
2019_DC_Bennett_190506 DC -- USC/PDC/PDAA -- First Monday Forum: A Free Press Matters (w/Amanda Bennett)
2018_DC_WPFD_180425 BBG, GWU, & CPJ -- World Press Freedom Day - Panel 1: Challenges and New Trends (w/John Lansing, Amanda Bennett, Alberto M. Fernandez, Bay Fang, Paul Danahar, Greta Van Susteren)
2017_DC_Shulman_170710 DC -- USC/PDC -- First Monday Forum: How the Voice Has Changed (w/Holly Cowan Shulman)
2016_DC_Bennett_160502 DC -- USC/PDC -- First Monday Forum: Change at the Voice of America (w/Amanda Bennett)
2022_DC_AlcarazR_220426 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2022): Lalo Alcaraz -- Reception
2019_MD_Network_190613 AFI and Washington Monthly -- Fourth Estate Film Series (2019) -- "Network" (w/Beth Reinhard, Clarence Page, Arch Campbell, and Paul Glastris)
2019_DC_DaviesR_190502 Library of Congress -- Ceremony: Herblock Prize (2019): Matt Davies -- Reception
2023_DC_PrayerD_230606 DC -- World War II Memorial -- Event: Dedication Of FDR D-Day Prayer Plaque
2023_DC_Madison_Prize_230501 American University -- Event: Madison Prize for Constitutional Excellence award (w/Amy Klobuchar and Rob Portman) @ America's Square (Jones Day Bldg)
2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experience rain in another state,
Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie,
four trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con), and
my 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah).
Number of photos taken this year: about 582,000.
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