News about NSNC members
Longtime NSNC member Walt Brasch has received the Lifetime Communicator of Achievement award from the Pennsylvania Press Club, reported a newspaper that runs his column. The News Eagle said Walt received the honor June 3 in Gettysburg at the club’s annual dinner. The lifetime is the state press club’s highest award, recognizing both significant journalistic…
By Ben Pollock President National Society of Newspaper Columnists Updates on the topic follow the article, including: “Suspected Plagiarist Resigns” George Waters Longtime NSNC member George Waters, having read recently about a newspaperman stealing columns from a number of humor writers, “Googled” some of own better lines and found he was paid the compliment of…
Brian J. O’Connor, The Detroit News, was named a finalist in commentary in the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards, honors the best work in the communications industry and journalism education. O’Connor was Chair of the NSNC Annual Conference last year in Detroit and is currently a member of the Board of Directors. The Scripps Howard…
Former North Dakota Newspaper Association President and Newspaper Owner Jon Flatland Exposed in Wide-ranging Theft of Humor Columns from Across the Country An alert to NSNC members. Updates to the Memminger report follow his article. By Charles Memminger March 8, 2012 A few weeks ago, humor and travel writer Dave Fox was Googling some of…
Wanda Argersinger Wanda Argersinger, NSNC member from Gulf Breeze, Florida, was selected as an Honorable Mention in the Humor – Global category of the 2012 Erma Bombeck writing competition. The contest is sponsored by Washington-Centerville Library in Ohio and the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop. Wanda’s winning entry, “Goodbye Old Flame” was about changing computer technology…
Suzette Martinez Standring, past president of NSNC, recently announced the release of a new CD for writers. “For a long time, I’ve used guided imagery exercises in my writing workshops because relaxation unlocks the imagination. Due to demand, I’ve produced a unique CD with two guided imagery exercises.” she says. Relax With Suzette is a…
By Sheila Moss, NSNC WebEditor It is with great sadness that we report the death of beloved journalist, NSNC colleague and friend, Jeff Zaslow, 53, Wall Street Journal. Jeff died tragically on Friday morning, February 10th, in a traffic accident when his car skidded on ice and snow and collided with a semi. A Philadelphia…
The newest member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists is a peppy Vermont woman believed to be America’s oldest columnist. Harriette B. Leidich of North Bennington, VT is approaching her 100th birthday but still turning out columns for her local newspaper. A contributing columnist for the daily Bennington (VT) Banner for the past 16…
Tracy 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.…
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 are…
In an unexpected announcement, humor columnist and author W. Bruce Cameron announced that he has decided to discontinue his newspaper column on Jan 7th. Cameron made the announcement with his usual sense of humor: “So, after starting my column in 1995 as an email only thing, going to the Rocky Mountain News in 1998 and…
Ernie Witham Columnist and author, Ernie Witham, who writes “Ernie’s World” for the Montecito Journal in Montecito, California, will be leading four workshops at the Whidbey Island Writers Conference, Langley, WA, March 2-4, 2012. *Humor on Vacation. The Fun and Funny Aspects of Travel *The Craft of Humor Writing. Making Funny Funnier *Did You See…
(Two corrections made to article, in bold, below) Rick Horowitz, long-time NSNC member, announced that he is ending his twice-weekly syndicated column at the end of the year. Rick plans to devote his extensive energies to a new business venture called Prime Prose, LLC. His new enterprise will pull together an expanding assortment of the…
NSNC member Luellen Smiley was guest of Philadelphia-based radio host and television personality Mike Smerconish on The Morning Mouth earlier this month. Smiley, is the daughter of reputed mobster, Allen Smiley. Smiley’s dad was a close friend and confidant of famous Las Vegas mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel and he was sitting on the couch just feet…
NSNC Member Susan Young has a new column of being published monthly in The Hometown News, Volusia County, FL. It’s a monthly insert called “Forever Young” – aimed at Baby Boomers. Susan’s column is called “Life in the Middle” and is about the Sandwich Generation in which we live these days. Here’s the link… Scroll down and…
Russell Frank, associate professor of communications at Penn State University and member of the NSNC Board of Directors, was recently published in The Washington Post with a by-lined story about Herb Block, a four-time Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist at The Washington Post. Frank is serving as a consultant to the Library of Congress for its Herbock Oral…
Here’s Your Best Column Ever By Dave Lieber Fort Worth Star-Telegram Columnist http://www.yankeecowboy.com/ Somehow very few of us in NSNC are included in the new book, Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns. So in my last column I announced my own version – NSNC Members’ Greatest Columns. I asked for your…
