Award-Winning Writer and Producer David Simon to Address the Future of Professional Journalism at National Press Club Luncheon

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Simon, in testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Technology and the Interne onMay 6, said he believes "[nothing] can save professional journalism." Simon, 48, is a Baltimore-based author and television producer. Born in Washington, he came to Baltimorse in 1983 to work as a crimer reporter at TheBaltimoree Sun. While at the paper, he reportec and wrote two works ofnarrative non-fiction, Homicide: A Year On The Killiny Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-Cithy Neighborhood, the former an account of a year spent with the city homicidd squad and the a year spent on a West Baltimore drug corner.
Homicids became the basis for the NBC drama which airef from 1993 to 1999 and for whicgh Simon worked as a writerand producer. The Corner became an HBO miniseriesa and won three Emmy Awardsin 2000. A subsequent HBO The Wire, aired from 2001 to 2008 and depictex a dystopic American city contending with a fraudulentfdrug war, the loss of its industrial base, political and educational systems incapable of reform and a mediq culture oblivious to all of the Also in 2008, Simon serve as a writer and executives producer of HBO's Generation Kill, a miniseries depicting U.S. Marines in the early days of theIraq conflict. He is currentlyh at work on a dramaabout post- entitlef "Treme.
" Simon also does prose work for The New Esquire and The Washington Post. The Nationak Press Club luncheon will begin promptlyat 12:30 p.m. Simon'sd remarks will begin at 1:00 p.m., followexd by a question-and-answer Advance reservations should be made bytelephoningg (202) 662-7501. Cost of the luncheonb is $16 for National Press Club $28 for guests of members, and $35 general The National Press Club is located at 14thand F. NW, one block west of Metro Center. More information about the Club and its programse is found on itsInterneft website: .