Tag: National Press Club

The Washington Post to serve as media partner for National Press Club’s Help The Heroes campaign

Stuart Mitchell

The National Press Club announced at a recent news conference that The Washington Post would serve as an official media partner for the Club’s Help The Heroes campaign, a program designed to help front line medical workers at Howard University Hospital and feed the fight against COVID-19 by providing hospital staff with nutritious take-home meals. The Washington Post has pledged to contribute advertising support for the campaign, including a full-page ad that ran in today’s newspaper. “Help The Heroes is all about neighbors helping neighbors in this time of need,”…

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Bureau of Immigration Appeals Agrees To Reconsider Asylum Request of Jailed Mexican Journalist

Stuart Mitchell

The U.S. Board of Immigration Appeals has agreed to reconsider National Press Club Press Freedom award-winner Emilio Gutierrez’s asylum petition following a campaign by club members and allied professional journalism organizations to prevent the Mexican reporter from being deported to his home country, where he is under a death threat. The NPC and its nonprofit Journalism Institute received word of the BIA decision this week; nonetheless, Gutierrez and his son, Oscar, remain in an El Paso immigration detention facility. They have been confined since Dec. 7, when Immigration and Customs…

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National Press Club to Hand-Deliver Petitions to El Paso Detention Facility This Friday, Dec. 22 Calling For Release of Press Freedom Award Winner Emilio Gutierrez

Stuart Mitchell

One week after the National Press Club launched their campaign on change.org more than 16,500 people have signed the petition calling for the release of detained Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez. On Dec. 22 the National Press Club’s Executive Director Bill McCarren will hand-deliver those signatures to the detention facility in El Paso, TX where Gutierrez is being held. After visiting the detention facility, McCarren will meet with Gutierrez’s attorney Eduardo Beckett and local officials at El Paso’s Bridge of the Americas Port of Entry before making their way to La…

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