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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Photo-shoot last night: Reception and conversation with Radio Free Europe reporter and former Russian prisoner Alsu Kurmasheva at the National Press Club.

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Alsu Kurmasheva speaking into a hand-held microphone.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 10d

We went to the Washington Nationals - Chicago White Sox game yesterday. Plenty of action and rain. Nats won 6-5.

Shown here: Nats' position players during National Anthem.

Big heroes: The ground crew for keeping the field playable.

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Washington Nationals position players in a line, with hats over their hearts, during the national anthem, 27 Sept. 2025.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 12d

New on TechNewsLit Explores ... A July 2025 news conference with an industry group and GOP lawmakers forecast Trump's new 50% #tariffs on kitchen cabinets, and captured at the time by a TechNewsLit photo-shoot.

Exclusive photos available from the Alamy agency […]

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Photos of L-R: Rep. Joe Wilson and Sen. Tommy Tuberville, in Alamy frames and watermarks.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 19d

Photo-shoot yesterday: Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), speaking at Center for American Progress, where he warned about the eroding democracy in the U.S. brought on by the Trump administration.

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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaking at Center for American Progress, 18 Sept. 2025.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 23d

New post on my blog TechNewslit Explores ...

Sports gambling is a bad bet, especially for sports ... https://write.as/technewslit/sports-gambling-is-a-bad-bet-especially-for-sports

If there are winners in sports betting other than the gambling operators, they're hard to find.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 25d

Lanternflies, considered invasive and destructive of crops, are swarming along the U.S. East Coast. At Cape May, NJ this week, we discovered that Atlantic ghost crabs feast on #lanternflies, and we have the pictures to prove it.

#photography #naturephotography #jerseyshore #capemay

Atlantic ghost crab consuming a lanternfly on a white beach.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

National Press Club's annual members photo exhibit that I've organized since 2016 is live, continuing to September 30 in the Club's main lobby. Some 52 participants contributed 185 print photos and digital images displayed in continuous slideshows, with 106 of […]

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 31

Photo-shoot this week for the Wire, the daily newsletter at National Press Club ... the annual journalism awards dinner. Here's Club president Mike Balsamo, right, presenting the President's Award to Dong Yifu, accepting for his father, imprisoned Chinese […]

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National Press Club president Mike Balsamo presents the President's Award certificate to Dong Yifu, son of jailed journalist and award winner Dong Y

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 26

@w7voa ... Lake's middle-finger to Judge Lamberth

Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 18

Had a chance today to see National Guard troops in D.C., around Union Station on Capitol Hill. A few residents and visitors chatted with the soldiers, who otherwise looked bored with nothing to do.

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Woman on a bicycle rides past a National Guard vehicle and soldier on a brick plaza in Washington, D.C.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 18

Arlington County (Va.) naturalist with a local reptilian resident today at the county fair. More fair photos ... https://technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/DC-and-region/Arlington-County-Fair

#photography #newsphotography #Arlington #virginia #naturalist #snake

Man in a white tee-shirt holds a black snake wrapped around his hand and forearm.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 15

Photo-shoot today at National Press Club: The Austin Tice hostage case, 13 years later. New developments in the Austin Tice case for the past year, from government, media, and intelligence sources.

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Debra Tice, mother of Austin Tice, at the National Press Club.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 13

Returned late Monday from a weekend visit to New England: Street festival at Federal Hill in #Providence, Jet-Skis on Webster Lake and 60s muscle cars in Douglas, Mass. ... Photos: https://technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/Travel-photos/NewEngland-2025

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Three men sitting at an outdoor table drinking coffee.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Jul 25

Third shoot this week: NCAA president and former Republican Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker, at the National Press Club, interviewed by Washington Post reporter Tara Copp. 24 July 2025.

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NCAA president Charlie Baker gestures while looking into the camera.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Jul 25

Two other shoots this week, 1 of 2, former U.S. Rep Beto O'Rourke (D-TX, shown here) and ethics attorney Norm Eisen talk about Texas redistricting plans at Center for American Progress.

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Former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke speaking into a hand-held microphone.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Jul 25

New photo-shoot this week, Axios News Shapers, featuring interviews with House majority whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Sen. Josh Hawley.

Shown here: Tom Emmer with Axios reporter Hans Nichol.

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Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) interviewed by Axios reporter Hans Nichol, 23 July 2025.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Jul 23

Two Gaza protestors disrupted the Axios News Shapers event in Washington, D.C. 23 July 2025. Here, the first protestor unfurled a banner and began shouting during the interview with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).

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A Gaza protestor, surrounded by security staff, disrupts a Washington, D.C. news conference. 23 July 2025.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Jul 16

I need more GOP faces in my Alamy portfolio, so I joined and photo'd a news conference today featuring Sen. Tommy Tuperville (R-AL) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) at National Press Club. The topic was unfair trading practices against American manufacturers of kitchen […]

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Sen. Tommy Tuperville (R-AL) at a news conference, 16 July 2025.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Jul 15

NPR and PBS are national treasures. Let's keep them funded.

https://www.press.org/freedom-center

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Jul 12

RIF-notice day yesterday at Dept. of State. Current and former colleagues came out to applaud their friends and coworkers laid off, lining up at the C Street entrance, and across the street. A rally, with speakers from former officials and lawmakers followed […]

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Two women hugging, while in background coworkers applaud.

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Jul 11

Thank you @bosak ... Hope you're doing well.

Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Jul 11

New photo credit: Edward Segal's column today in Forbes includes one of my photos of David Rubenstein, taken Tuesday at National Press Club

https://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsegal/2025/07/11/how-philanthropy-can-help-build-brands-and-address-crisis-situations/

#photography #newsphotography

How Philanthropy Can Help Build Brands And Address Crisis Situations

No matter what form it takes, philanthropy can be a critical component of a company’s brand and crisis response strategy.

www.forbes.com

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Jul 9

Photo-shoot last night: David Rubenstein -- Carlyle Group (private equity) co-chair, philanthropist, historian, author, and owner of the Baltimore Orioles -- interviewed by CNBC correspondent Emily Wilkins at National Press Club

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David Rubenstein speaks at the National Press Club, 8 July 2025.

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Samantha Rose @samantha42.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · Jul 2

Nice, DuckDuckGo now has https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ so you can entirely avoid their AI Search even when you regularly delete cookies.

AI "search" not existing would be my preference, but functional opt-out is a solid second given current state of tech.

(It's possible it's not new, but I only […]

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Alan Kotok @technewslit.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Jul 2

@NatalieDavis ... And not a moment too soon.