Triangle Press Club is hosting another meeting of a professional group called the Triangle Press Club which is open and free to any professional member of the media in the Wake, Durham or Orange County area or beyond including those in print, TV, radio, and new media. There are no club dues for professional journalists.
The next meeting will be on Thursday, April 22nd from 7:30pm to 9:30pm in the special events room at the TirNaNog Irish Pub in downtown Raleigh. For directions, click here.
The event is free to qualified working journalism professionals but also members of the general public may attend for $40. If you register for this event and you are not a working journalist, then you will be sent an electronic invoice for $40 where you can pay for your ticket in advance. Journalism students are also invited to attend at no charge if they register in advance at this website.
NETWORKING: Most of the meeting will be a general networking session (we will have plenty of free food and drink specials) so that members of the media who might not ordinarily be able to meet can do so.
ALL ATTENDEES MUST RSVP: if you are planning to attend RSVP, so we can plan for food. There is limited space so RSVP today! If you have any questions, please call Randall Gregg at 919- 760- 3110.
SPECIAL GUEST: DAVID ZUCCHINO OF THE L.A. TIMES
David Zucchino is author of two books including a compilation of stories from soldiers during the Gulf War entitled “Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad.” He also wrote an acclaimed book on the plight of women in poverty entitled “Myth of the Welfare Queen.”
A highly respected journalist who has built an impressive body of work at the Los Angeles Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer, Zucchino has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1985, 1989, 1995, and 2004. In 1989, Zucchino won the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Reporting for his series entitled “Being Black in South Africa.”
Zucchino has also made a name for himself as an embedded reporter during the Iraq Wars and like Ernie Pyle during World War II, he has brought home the story of the individual soldier working hard on the front lines.
The Pulitzer Prize committee named Zucchino as a finalist in 2004 after he covered the war for the LA Times, citing “his resourceful, sweeping and valorous reports that gave readers a rare, close- up view of combat as American soldiers invaded Iraq.”
The Triangle Press Club is honored to welcome David as our special guest at our upcoming April 22nd meeting and we’re sure that members of the club will be delighted to meet such an outstanding journalist who has covered world events.
REGISTER FOR THIS GREAT EVENT:
http://www.raleightelegram.com/pressclub.html
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