President Barack Obama wrote an exclusive column for impreMedia’s Spanish-language digital and print newspapers, Editor and Publisher reported September 8th. And he will give a one-on-one interview to the group’s Washington correspondent, Antonieta Cádiz. This signals the importance that the Hispanic community has within the US, according to impreMedia’s press release. The interview covers a [...]

Humorist Rick Horowitz explains (more or less) how Terrorist Muslim Chickens are contaminating our egg supply at Ground Zero — not to even mention our nightly television news programs.

Poynter Institute, a major journalism information, training and media news resource, celebrates its 35th anniversary in November and will be launching a new media news website for the occasion. The site is asking for feedback from its users. “The site’s goal is to serve anyone pursuing journalism excellence — newsroom journalists, journalists outside traditional newsrooms, [...]

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists salutes James J. Kilpatrick. The University of Missouri graduate, for more than 50 years a prominent conservative political columnist, died Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010, news services reported Monday. He was 89. Obituaries in The Washington Post and The New York Times convey a more controversial career than fans of [...]

Recently, Amazon announced that ebooks sold for the Kindle now outnumber the hardcover books they sell. The Kindle, in case you are a technosarus,  is an electronic reader developed by Amazon.com that allows books to be downloaded electronically and read on the device. The Kindle eReader has been around since 2007, but only recently came [...]

The Indiana University School of Journalism welcomes the National Society of Newspaper Columnists as it stages its annual conference in Bloomington July 8-11.  An article is posted on the Indian University website. The School of Journalism is one of the sponsors of the conference, along with Indiana University, The Herald-Times, Schurz Communications, VisitBloomington.com, Nick’s English [...]

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace in 2008, has been chosen as a co-host of a new primetime news program on CNN replacing Campbell Brown.  Spitzer will be joined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist for The Washington Post, Kathleen Parker.   Longtime NSNC member Kathleen Parker is one of America’s [...]

Arthur Brisbane, a longtime editor and journalist, will become the new public editor at The New York Times, a job considered by many as one of the sweetest in journalism. Brisbane brings 34 years of journalistic experience to the job, including publisher and editor of The Kansas City Star and reporter and editor at The Washington [...]

Rob Nelson, former reporter for The Times-Picayune and WWL-TV in New Orleans, is leaving to accept a position as a national news anchor in New York. Rob is also our very first NSNC Student Scholarship winner, and as such, we feel a certain amount of paternal pride about his accomplishments.  In today’s paper, Rob writes [...]

Veteran reporter and White House legend, Helen Thomas, resigned today under fire for her controversial remarks about Israel.  She was a syndicated opinion columnist for Hearst Corporation and at 89 the longest-serving White House journalist.  Read more at CNN. —

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

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 [...]

Courtesy of  Herald Times Online Ernie Pyle site in Dana saved for now: www.heraldtimesonline.com By Mike Leonard 331-4368 | mleonard@heraldt.com 5/19/2010  Deferring to the concerns voiced by several people who attended this week’s meeting of the Indiana Natural Resources Commission, the state agency voted not to take action on a recommendation to give up ownership of [...]

UPDATE – MAY 19th – Decision on Pyle’s Birthplace postponed The state commission voted to table a controversial decision about what to do with the Ernie Pyle State Historic Site. Meanwhile, the doors to the site in Dana, Indiana, remain closed.   On the table is a decision that will allow the state to sell [...]