Christine Brennan: No Women Athletes at White House College Sports Meeting is ‘Huge Swing and Miss’
The White House “really blew it” when the administration did not include women athletes in a recent discussion of student athletes’ rights, including revenue sharing, USA Today national sports columnist Christine Brennan told the National Press Foundation’s Paul Miller Reporting Fellowship class. Brennan, a vocal advocate for gender equity in sports, referred to a November meeting in which former college…
Vaccine Passports: Ethics and Inequality
Interactive Audio Transcript 5 takeaways: ➀ Vaccine passports are “a terrible bit of terminology.” The Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez says backlash is building against requirements for government-issued documents that verify vaccination status for purposes other than crossing international borders, such as entering stadiums, museums or other public places. France’s newly-approved COVID green pass faced harsh scrutiny after thousands took to…
REGISTER: Vaccine Passports – July 20th, 10am EDT
Chairman’s Citation Goes to Sports Writer Sally Jenkins
Sally Jenkins, a pioneering sports writer for The Washington Post, has been selected for the National Press Foundation’s 2017 Chairman’s Citation. The veteran journalist and author will receive the award at NPF’s annual journalism awards dinner on Thursday, Feb. 15, at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Washington, D.C., along with other award winners. Learn more about the NPF dinner and…
Making Those Big Story Ideas a Reality
When USA Today National Correspondent Deborah Berry was working on a piece about legendary voting and women’s rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, she realized she needed to tell as many stories of Civil Rights veterans as she could. “I was like, one day I'm going to make it a point to try to tell their stories before they leave here…
Arthur Jones II
Jones II briefed National Press Foundation fellows in January 2024: Deep Sourcing Is A key Measure For Washington Reporters.  A native Washingtonian, hailing from Southwest D.C., Arthur Jones II attended the all-boys, St. Albans School (STA), partially aided by a singing scholarship as a member of the Washington National Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys. He also received additional support…
Larry Graham
Larry Graham is the founder and executive director of The Diversity Pledge Institute. He spent the majority of his career leading sports journalists in newsrooms across the country. He’s worked at ESPN.com, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and The Kansas City Star, to name a few. Most recently, he served as deputy director of local news transformation…
Christine Brennan
Brennan briefed National Press Foundation fellows in December 2023: No Women Athletes at White House College Sports Meeting is ‘Huge Swing and Miss.’ Christine Brennan is an award-winning national sports columnist for USA Today, a commentator for CNN, ABC News, PBS NewsHour and NPR, a best-selling author and a nationally-known speaker. Named one of the country’s top 10 sports columnists…
Lindsey Smith
Smith briefed National Press Foundation fellows in November 2023: Preparing for Rare Disease Day 2024.  Lindsey Smith serves as the Director of Engagement at Osmosis from Elsevier where she oversees the Customer Experience and Engagement teams. She is dedicated to building teams, processes, and programs that deliver award-winner experiences for our leaners and partners to help them fall in love…
Christopher Porter
Porter briefed National Press Foundation fellows in November 2023: Making The Case for Newborn Screening.  Christopher Porter has over 20 years of Government and Public Affairs experience, with deep healthcare policy know-how and advocacy successes spanning Congress, the Executive Branch, State governments, and the globe. Currently, Chris serves as Vice President of Government Affairs and Policy for Travere Therapeutics, a…
Officer Harry Dunn
Dunn briefed National Press Foundation fellows in October 2023: ‘January 6 Is Still Ongoing,’ Says Officer Harry Dunn.  Harry Dunn joined the U.S. Capitol police in 2008. On January 6, 2021, he was one of the brave officers who protected the country as a mob of insurrectionists attacked the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the presidential election. Officer Dunn…
Liz Farmer
Farmer briefed National Press Foundation fellows in September 2023: How’s Your State’s Fiscal Health? Liz Farmer is a fiscal policy expert and journalist, writing for a national audience about the many ways state and local governments spend our taxpayer money. Her areas of expertise include budgets, fiscal distress, tax policy and pensions. She is a regular contributor to Forbes and…
Long COVID in Children: An Open Question
As America’s COVID emergency response strategy winds down, there’s still the specter of what’s known as long COVID to confront. Research into the lingering effects of the virus on patients is evolving, and some clinicians even doubt it’s a real ailment. Even less is known about long COVID in children. Dr. David Miller and Dr. Amy Edwards work at the…
The AARP Award for Excellence in Journalism on Aging
Is the Top Job For You?
Mizell Stewart III is the president and CEO of Emerging Leaders, LLC, a consulting and coaching company serving mid-level and senior executives in the U.S. and Canada. Before that, he was a senior news executive for Gannett and the USA Today Network, Managing Director and Chief Content Officer for Journal Media Group and Vice President/Content for the newspaper division of…
Michael Ballard
Mike Ballard worked to raise awareness of suicide prevention for 20 years. He joined the board of Suicide Prevention Action Network USA (SPAN USA) in 2004 and was elected chair in 2008. As chair, he led the process of merging with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) in May 2009. After completing nine years on the AFSP board, he…
‘Journalism Saved My Life’
The love of reading helped shepherd journalist Jemele Hill through a childhood with two recovering drug addicts as parents in 1980s Detroit. The city was reeling from the scourge of crack and the drain of so-called “white flight” when Hill was a child. It’s in that setting that a young Black girl vowed to make better life choices and used…
Jemele Hill
Jemele Hill spokes to NPF Widening the Pipeline fellows January 20, 2023 on how "Journalism Saved My Life." Emmy Award-winning journalist, author and podcaster, Jemele Hill is the co-founder of Lodge Freeway Media, writer for The Atlantic, host of the Spotify podcast, "Jemele Hill is Unbothered" and author of Uphill, a Memoir (Henry Holt and Company, 2022). Prior to joining…
Sam Fulwood III
Sam Fulwood III was dean of American University’s School of Communication (SOC) and is an award-winning journalist, public policy analyst and author, whose work addresses key issues of media influences on American life. He has written and lectured extensively across the United States and internationally on U.S. race relations, data-driven journalism, and the intersections of media, technology and democracy. In…
Robin Roberts
Business and Human Rights for Journalists
Journalists can get great stories by investigating whether businesses are living up to their legal commitments and PR pledges to protect workers’ rights, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) business and human rights specialist Harpreet Kaur told NPF’s International Trade Fellows in Singapore. [Transcript | Video] 5 takeaways: ➀ Businesses care about their human rights record for three reasons. First, those…
How Jan. 6 Changed the Congress Beat
4 takeaways: ➀ Dealing with partisan divide: “It is an angrier place.” People have been saying Congress is divided for decades, but the Jan. 6 insurrection added fuel to the fire already glowing with anger over campaign spending, personal feelings and disparity. “[Jan. 6] still is with us every day. There's still a lot of very raw feelings here from…
Kathleen McElroy
McElroy briefed National Press Foundation fellows in March 2022: Objectivity in Journalism: New Norms Under Debate. Kathleen McElroy is the director of the School of Journalism and a professor at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Journalism in December 2014, after nearly 30 years as a professional journalist. At The New York…
Tisha Thompson
Thompson spoke to NPF's Date & Accountability fellows in January 2022. Video, transcript and takeaways from her presentation are here. Tisha Thompson is an investigative and enterprise reporter for ESPN. Her work appears on all platforms, including SportsCenter, Outside the Lines and SC Featured, as well as espn.com and The ESPN Daily podcast. She is regularly translated into other languages…
Alexander Pyles
Pyles briefed National Press Foundation fellows in January 2022: Social Media for Reluctant Reporters. Alexander Pyles is a Philip Merrill College of Journalism lecturer and audience editor for Capital News Service, the college’s student-staffed news organization with bureaus and news teams in Annapolis, Baltimore, College Park and Washington, D.C. He helps student journalists use metrics, social media and other digital…
Sam Fulwood III
Libor Jany
Jany briefed National Press Foundation fellows in November 2021: Better Coverage of Criminal Justice. Libor Jany got his start in journalism in the sports department of his hometown paper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He attended Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Ore.) and Mississippi State University, majoring in communications with a minor in sociology. In his free time, he likes…
Stu Woo
Daniel Lewi
Lewi briefed National Press Foundation fellows in September 2021: Covering Rare Diseases with Sensitivity. Daniel Lewi's background in rare disease advocacy began when he and his wife founded the Cure & Action for Tay-Sachs (CATS) Foundation in the United Kingdom after their daughter Amélie was diagnosed with Tay-Sachs. With no national charities to provide support, the CATS Foundation has nonetheless…
Seema Mohapatra
Professor Mohapatra is an expert in the areas of biotechnology and the law, public health law, reproductive justice, law and gender, and racial and health equity. Mohapatra earned her Juris Doctorate at Northwestern University School of Law, her Master of Public Health in chronic disease epidemiology at Yale University, and her bachelor’s degree with a major in Natural Sciences and…
Kate Cimini
Ronald Kirk
Ron Kirk is Senior Of Counsel in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Dallas and Washington, D.C. offices. He is Co-Chair of the International Trade Practice Group and a member of the Sports Law, Public Policy, Crisis Management and Private Equity Practice Groups. Ambassador Kirk focuses on providing strategic advice to companies with global interests. Prior to joining the firm in April 2013, Ambassador Kirk served as…
Adam Sharp
Adam Sharp has forged a distinctive career of more than twenty years at the intersection of media, politics and technology. He currently serves as the President and CEO of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, overseeing the annual presentation of the coveted Emmy® Awards for Daytime, Sports, and News & Documentary television, as well as achievements in television…
Kathleen McElroy
Kathleen McElroy is the director of the School of Journalism and a professor at The University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Journalism in December 2014, after nearly 30 years as a professional journalist. At The New York Times, she held various management positions, including associate managing editor, dining editor, deputy sports editor and deputy…
Julie Triolo
Julie Triolo is the Vice President of Product Marketing for Warner Bros. Discovery in the Ignite division. Julie’s role is to launch new and innovative products into market that help brands meaningfully connect with WarnerMedia’s deeply invested fans, across a portfolio of properties including CNN, Great Big Story, Bleacher Report, TBS, TNT, Adult Swim, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, HLN, SuperDeluxe and…
Jim Brady
Jim Brady is the Vice President of Journalism for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Brady, who joined Knight in August 2021, is a longtime digital media innovator whose experience ranges from leading major brands such as washingtonpost.com and Digital First Media to starting a company that built and sold local news sites in three cities. Before his appointment…
John Barry
John M. Barry is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author whose books have won multiple awards. The National Academies of Sciences named his 2004 book The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history, a study of the 1918 pandemic, the year's outstanding book on science or medicine. His earlier book Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How…
Photography for Reporters
Andrew Harnik of The Associated Press is a veteran, award-winning photographer who shoots everything from professional sports to the president of the United States. He has the best camera equipment at his disposal. Yet in a pinch, he knows reporters will be well served by the little device in their pockets. “Your iPhone is the most amazing piece of equipment,”…
Artificial Intelligence in the News Industry
At The Washington Post, hundreds of smart journalists work essentially around the clock to bring readers news and insights. Those journalists are generally the best in the business. But how will they fare against a computer? Joey Marburger, director of product at the Post, led National Press Foundation fellows through a discussion of the use of artificial intelligence systems in…
What NPF Award Winners Say About Journalism
By Sandy K. Johnson That sound you heard was a 1,000-strong chorus of support for the First Amendment and a free press. At the National Press Foundation’s awards dinner Feb. 15, there were reminders aplenty why journalism matters. A sampling from the NPF award winners’ remarks: Nicole Carroll, the newly installed editor-in-chief of USA Today and winner of the Benjamin…


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