Tweet a rundown on NSNC activities by President Ben Pollock, a provocative challenge for “you, the columnist” from Dave Lieber, an exciting update on the 2012 conference by Ed Grisamore, plus news and information about contests, books and other happenings about your fellow columnists, including a surprise about NSNC’s newest member. Be sure to open [...]
Member News
Tracy Beckerman appearing in Ohio
TweetTracy Beckerman, NSNC Social Media Chair and syndicated humor columnist will be speaking at Centerville Library in Centerville, Ohio, on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, at 7 PM. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. Tracy has been a columnist for eight years with the weekly Independent Press newspaper in New Jersey. [...]
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Zaslow writes about Giffords’ Memoir
TweetNSNC member Jeff Zaslow, Wall Street Journal, recently bylined an article for USA Today Sunday magazine in regard to the inspirational memoir he co-authored with U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly. The book is titled “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope.” Congresswoman Gabby Giffords of Arizona is currently in the news [...]
Advocacy
Ten Top Twitter Tips
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 [...]
Announcements
Gail Collins Named Lifetime Achievement Winner
TweetColumnist Gail Collins of The New York Times is the winner of the 2012 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award. She will receive the prestigious award sponsored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists at the organization’s annual conference, Macon, Ga., May 3-6. Gail Collins joined the Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial [...]
Announcements
Column Contest Deadline – March 1st
Tweet Click image for the NSNC Column Contest Form The only sanctioned competition just for columnists enters the new year. The fee is reasonable, and the honor of winning has been a boon to several decades of writers. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists takes pride in seeking entries of published columns in all media: [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]