Month: June 2010

Zaslow Video on the Gore’s Breakup

NSNC member, Jeff Zaslow, Wall Street Journal, reflects on the breakup of Al and Tipper Gore after 40 years and why other long-term marriages can end in divorce. Read the column:  ‘Till 40 Years Do Us Part

2010 AP Stylebook Released

For all who have been breathless waiting, the new AP Stylebook was released on June 1.  E&P says, “It’s the copy editor’s bible, the one book they reach for when questions of style, or usage, or even spelling arise.” The 2010 edition has been much anticipated because it contains six pages of social media guidelines…

The Oil Crisis

By Sherry Antonetti, NSNC Member The Gulf of Mexico was my growing up summer place, so I’ve been following this crisis from the get go for personal reasons. I saw Hurricane Rita rip my hometown of Beaumont to shreds in 2005 and Hurricane Ike (2008) destroy a whole community that was part of my childhood…

Lieber: “I’ll Never Forget”

Dave Lieber

you, the columnist By Dave Lieber NSNC Education Foundation Secretary      I was cleaning out the office the other day and came across my notes from my very first NSNC conference in Portland, Oregon in 1993. I remember it like yesterday. (Cliché alert!)    I wasn’t a columnist when I arrived, but was one…