Category: Scoop


  • Press Club of Southwest Florida long-time member and NPC Board and Scholarship Committee member, William “Bill” A. Klauber, passed away Feb. 6, 2015, at the age of 82 at the Glenview in Pelican Bay. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War.  A native New Yorker, Klauber earned a BSJ Degree from Ohio

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  • The Press Club of Southwest Florida invites scholarship applications from Collier County high school seniors heading to college or Collier County high school graduates currently in college who plan to pursue a career as a journalist or photojournalist in print, electronic or broadcast media. A major qualification is a passionate devotion to the field of

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  •   with Phil Jason A (Mostly) Kids’ Guide to Naples, Marco Island & The Everglades, by Karen T. Bartlett There’s nothing square about this 8 X 8 inch high-energy book. It’s the hip answer to youngsters who visit Naples and say, “I’m bored. What are we going to do?” The book features snappy page design, a full

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  • This Event is also the Official NPC March Luncheon For 11 years, the Marine Corp League of Naples, E. T., Brisson Detachment #063 and the Press Club of Southwest Florida have observed the importance of freedom of the press with an annual event: Honor the Free Press Day. Each year, a noteworthy member of the

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  • Barbara Peterson, 20-year leader of the First Amendment Foundation, was joined by Press Club of Southwest Florida (NPC) member and award-winning investigative journalist and Watchdog City founder, Gina Edwards, and Amy Tardif, chairwoman of the Radio Television Digital News Association, for a panel discussion regarding open government. Approximately 100 people attended the presentation on Feb. 5 with

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  • Ryan Ferguson lost ten years of his young adulthood, but thanks to Erin Moriarty of CBS television’s “Forty-Eight Hours,” the rest of his life has been rescued. Ferguson was wrongfully convicted of murdering a local sports broadcaster in Columbia, Mo. and was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment. He admits that his defense attorney did a

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  • Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a Press Club of Southwest Florida Newsletter from March 1996 written by David Pfaff. For us to move forward we must remember where we have been. On This Date is a fun way for NPC members to find out about the Press Club of Southwest Florida’s past. The

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  • Born in White Plains, New York, Parkinson’s family moved to Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., when he was five years old. As an undergrad at Dartmouth, he was a reporter and then an editor for the college paper, and in graduate school at Harvard Business School, he was a reporter for the school’s

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