Category: Scoop
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Hurricane threats couldn’t permanently foil the media mixer plans for the Press Club of Southwest Florida this tropical storm season. While the event had to be cancelled and rescheduled due to Hurricane Milton, Hurricane Rafael last week stayed far enough away to enable the club and local media to gather for a fun-filled evening of
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Please join us for lunch on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, for our annual meeting featuring guest speaker Tim Aten. WHEN: Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Registration opens 11:30 a.m.; program begins at noon; event adjourns 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Great Wolf Lodge, 3900 City Gate Blvd. N., Naples 34117. Following lunch and the speaker’s presentation, you will receive a
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The Press Club of Southwest Florida is outraged at recent actions by the DeSantis administration to quash public debate about abortion rights. Below are letters to the editor written by two officers of the press club Board of Governors, Bob Orr and Tom Marquardt. Their viewpoints are strongly endorsed by the press club. We Need
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Great news! The media mixer in North Naples that was cancelled due to Hurricane Milton has been rescheduled. Please join your fellow press club members and media friends for an evening of fellowship and conversation. Our heartfelt thanks to press club member Denise LeClair Cobb for hosting this event. Date: Thursday , Nov. 7, 2024 Time: 5:30
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I met up with Dr. Stefanie Kempton after one of the long classes Florida Gulf Coast University sometimes schedules: News Production, 10:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. She was more than ready for a sweet tea. Her other two classes, Visual Storytelling and Journalistic Fact Finding, are held online. She prefers to teach in person but
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Please join your fellow press club members and media friends for an evening of fellowship and conversation. Our heartfelt thanks to press club member Denise LeClair Cobb for hosting this event. Date: Monday, Oct. 7, 2024 Time: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Location: Aqua Condominiums, First Floor Community Room, 13675 Vanderbilt Dr., North Naples Evening of Camaraderie: Media mixers like
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Members of the Board of Governors of the Press Club of Southwest Florida have expressed alarm about the ever-looming threat to freedom of the press as spelled out in an in-depth op-ed written by New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger and published recently in the Washington Post. Board members said that Sulzberger’s piece, titled “How the
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The family of Phil Jones, longtime member of the Press Club of Southwest Florida, has planned a memorial service for Saturday, September 14, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Bonita Springs, 9751 Bonita Beach Rd. S.E., Bonita Springs. Press club members are encouraged to attend. Upon learning of Phil’s death, several
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Our longtime Press Club colleague Phil Jones passed away recently at 87. He was a legendary figure at CBS News and a mentor to many of us. He worked at CBS for nearly 40 years, first as a Vietnam War correspondent and later as one of the network’s top political reporters. A native of Fairmount,
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