Members of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists felt the shock, anger and sadness from the attack at the 2013 Boston Marathon on Monday, April 15, 2013. Two bombs exploded within seconds of each other at 2:50 p.m. EDT near the Boylston Street finish line, killing three people and injuring at least 170, The Boston [...]
Nat'l Columnists' Day
National Columnists’ Day 2013: Honoring Ernie Pyle
April 18, Thursday this year, is National Columnists’ Day. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists created this holiday both for members but mainly as a flag to the world, reminding everyone of the journalistic and democratic importance of columns. We chose the date that Scripps Howard columnist Ernie Pyle was shot down in 1945, covering [...]
Newsletter
In the April-May newsletter
In the monthly NSNC newsletter emailed to members at mid-month you’ll find more information about “Lifestyles and the Writing Life” – the annual conference, to be held at Hartford, Conn. June 27-30. Also: Past President Mike Leonard has a story about a controversy over Ernie Pyle Hall on the Indiana University campus. A reminder that [...]
Member News
’11 Lifetime Achievement Winner Roger Ebert Dies
(Four paragraphs have been added at the end of this article.) Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert died Thursday, April 4, 2013, his newspaper reported. Ebert had been the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967, and his reviews were syndicated in more than 200 newspapers around the world. He won the Pulitzer Prize [...]
Conference
Conference Taps Top Twain Expert
If there’s anything you want to know about Samuel Langhorne Clemens — better known as Mark Twain — author and journalist Steve Courtney can tell you. And he will, if you sign up for the annual conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists at Hartford, Conn., June 27-30. As publicist and publications editor at [...]
Newsletter
In the March-April Newsletter
The newsletter is now being distributed to members at mid-month instead of the first day of the month. March-April, emailed March 15, is a special Conference Preview Issue. Here’s a digest of what you will find: A complete schedule of the 37th annual Conference, to be held June 27-30 at the Hilton Hartford Hotel in [...]
Column Contest
Contest Tock: Ticking Off
By Mike Deupree NSNC Contest Chair You know that terrible feeling of impending doom, the barely suppressed panic, the sweaty palms, the sleepless nights, when you haven’t yet met a deadline? Well, for heaven’s sake, why go through that when all you have to do to avoid it is get your entries submitted for the [...]
Newsletter
East Texas Columnist Mattie Dellinger Is a True Inspiration
‘I tried to write on a level that my mother would enjoy’ By Robert Haught Editor, The e-Columnist Mattie Dellinger writes a weekly column for the Shelby County Light and Champion in the East Texas town of Center. She’s been doing it a lot longer than most of us, and she doesn’t plan to quit, [...]
Art of Column Writing
Does Promotion and Marketing Exhaust You, Too?
Art of Column Writing By Suzette Martinez Standring 2004-06 President National Society of Newspaper Columnists Promote, stand out, and work social media! Gee, I’m exhausted. I adore writing, but I am bothered and bewildered by all that I must do “to get it out there.” I only like twittering when birds do it. Is there [...]
Column Contest
Contesting a Foolish Worry
President’s Message By Eric Heyl President National Society of Newspaper Columnists In retrospect, the email’s timing could have been better. I don’t recall much about the day except a random check of my inbox that proved startling. It was a communique from Sheila Stroup, a columnist from the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, whom I didn’t [...]
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