TweetPreviously published in NCEW (National Conference of Editorial Writers) Newsletter By Jim Boren, Editorial Page Editor The Fresno Bee @boren4507 Use Twitter daily (even weekends) to promote your editorials, columns, letters, stories. It will drive page views, and that makes the boss happy. Increase your reach beyond your followers by using hashtags — #schools, [...]
Advocacy
Freedom of the Seas: NSNC Opposes Online Piracy Bills
TweetJanuary 18 – Internet Blackout Day – Web users protest SOPA & PIPA – Cite censorship and online freedom of expression concerns Some websites are blacked out to protest proposed legislation For the day today, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012, a wide variety of associations, websites, prominent individuals, and online corporations and Internet nonprofits have either [...]
President's Column
Ben Pollock Knows When to Folder
TweetBy Ben Pollock NSNC President . Who among us still owns a typewriter? My Smith-Corona manual portable that saw me through high school and college is in the attic, but it works. On a desk for addressing envelopes is a bulky Royal office manual. I bought it when the Arkansas newspaper for which I interned [...]
Announcements
Tomlinson on Conference Agenda
TweetBreaking News – Tommy Tomlinson added to conference agenda A new name has been added to the list of guest speakers at the Macon Conference. Tommy Tomlinson, popular columnist of The Charlotte Observer, has accepted an invitation to lead one of our seminars . Tommy has a Georgia connection since he studied journalism at the [...]
Member News
Tammeus Co-leader of Israel Trip
Tweet Bill Tammeus “Faith Matters” blogger Bill Tammeus will help lead a Jewish-Christian study trip to Israel in April 2012. The other two leaders will be Rabbi Jacques Cukierkorn, spiritual leader of Temple Israel of Greater Kansas City; and Fr. Gar Demo, rector of St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Overland Park, Kansas. “They [...]
*AMAZON
Letters From Bill by Gloria O’Donnell
Tweet“Letters From Bill: 20 Years of Correspondence With Bill Clinton”, revised edition, is now available in Kindle format, says author, Gloria O’Donnell. The new edition includes recent comments from Bill Clinton. Gloria O’Donnell’s friendship with former President Bill Clinton began in Arkansas prior to his first election run, Gloria assisted in Clinton’s campaigns through two [...]
Newsroom
Roger Ebert’s Honors Continue
TweetRoger Ebert was recently honored by Chicago Magazine as a 2011 Chicagoan of the Year for his “journal and life itself.” Ebert was the first place winner for two consecutive years in the Blog Category of the NSNC Column-Writing contest. At the Detroit Conference, he was presented with our Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest [...]
Announcements
Erma Bombeck Writing Competion opens
TweetThe Erma Bombeck Writing Competion opens Tuesday, January 3. New to the contest this year is a $15 entry fee and a $500 prize to four winners, along with a complimentary registration to the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop April 19-21. There are two categories, humor and human interest., but entries are limited to one article [...]
Art of Column Writing
Seeding the Writing Terrain
TweetBy Suzette Martinez Standring, NSNC past president Do you ever feel like you’re writing the same old, same old? I did, and I needed a new way to look at my work. So naturally, I went to jail. No, I wasn’t convicted of anything. Last fall I volunteered to teach a meditation and journaling program [...]
Members' Books
Standring in Award Winning Anthology
Tweet“Mug of Woe,” a hilarious collection of personal embarrassments, took second place at the 2011 New England Book Festival in the category of “Compilations/Anthologies.” An essay, “Down There Nothing is Minor,” by Suzette Martinez Standring was featured. Contributors were humorists and professional standup comedians. Jenn Dlugos and Kyle Cranston co-created and edited Mug of Woe. [...]
Announcements
Best Columns of 2011, According to Facebook
TweetWe have a winner. Actually two. These two columnists were the overwhelming choice of a few hundred Facebook account holders. Not a tie, definitely a first and second, though. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists and NSNC member John Avlon (co-editor of this year’s popular anthology Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns) sponsored a straw [...]