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…
Dozens Attend First Amendment Presentation Focusing on Public Records Access
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…
NPC Luncheon: Ryan Ferguson Demonstrates how he is ‘Stronger, Faster, Smarter’
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.…
On This Date: Taken from “Tomorrow’s Headlines Today…”
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…
Meet Roger Parkinson
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,…
Press Club of Southwest Florida Authors Participate in Author and Book Fest
Press Club of Southwest Florida authors presented their books at the Collier County Public Library’s first-ever Author and Book Fest on Saturday, Feb. 21, at the South Regional Library. The event organized by Patricia DeGroot, administrative supervisor, included 38 local…
NPC Book Beat
NPC Book Beat with Phil Jason Boca Undercover, by Miriam Auerbach This slim and sassy novel is the fourth installment in Ms. Auerbach’s Dirty Harriet Mystery Series. Harriet Horowitz, a private investigator, is also a reformed material girl rebelling against the…
Pheeling Philanthropic?
Ryan Ferguson, Advocate for the Wrongfully Convicted, to Speak at the Press Club of Southwest Florida Feb. 27
Please note New Date for February’s Luncheon Friday, February 27 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Nov. 1, 2001, Kent Heitholt, sports editor for the Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune, was murdered in the newspaper’s parking lot around 2:10 am. Two years later, a young man named Charles Erickson…
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