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An Update from the Kaisers

On their Web site www.suddenlysenior.com Frank and Carolyn Kaiser provide an update on their condition after being declared in remission from their cancers.   “We’re living life in the slow lane, enjoying most every moment we feel energetic enough to do so, and planning for the future, albeit uncertain,” they write.  (They plan on taking a 9-day bus…

Interview With Humor Columnist W. Bruce Cameron

Canadian columnist Dan St.Yves caught up with fellow NSNC member W. Bruce Cameron during the annual conference in Ventura, CA.  Part of their conversation has already been a feature column in a Kelowna, British Columbia newspaper, and now an audio version of the interview is available as a free download: http://thatdanguy.libsyn.com/

Resource For Bloggers Recommended

NSNC member Linda Fulkerson, a blog coach and Internet marketing advisor, found some valuable information at one of her favorite Web sites which she would like to share with other writers. In a guest post at Copyblogger, Demian Farnworth supplies a different suggested reading list for writers and gives a brief reason why each book…

Russell Frank Has New Column

  NSNC Education Chair Russell Frank reported a new column which made its debut in September at www.statecollege.com.  The column will appear every Friday.   “I’ll no longer be in the Centre Daily Times,” said Frank, Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State University. Frank worked as a reporter, editor and columnist at newspapers in…

Garfinkle Interviewed by California Newspaper

Debra Garfinkle – humor columnist and novelist from Orange County, California – was interviewed by the Anaheim Literature Examiner about her writing career.   “I always loved to read and write,” she said. “I still do. But I grew up poor, and wanted some financial security. So I majored in economics in college, went to law…

Messenger Blogs for Gettysburg Times

“In addition to my Friday column, I’ve been doing a couple times a week blog on the Gettysburg Times website,”  John Messenger told fellow columnists on the NSNC Discussions Newslist. He invites us to check him out and leave comments in the comments section. John’s Friday morning columns aren’t online, but there’s talk about including…

California Columnist Retires at 83, Plans To Marry

NSNC member Beth Ashley, a longtime columnist for the Marin Independent Journal in Northern California, has announced her retirement after 40-some years, 26 of them as a columnist.    Craig Wilson broke the news in his column in USA Today.  They met when she worked at Wilson’s paper a few months “on loan” from the…

Columnist writes book on restaurant chain founder

Mike Harden

Mike Harden was a regular attendedee at our conferences until 2008 when he was busy working on a book about a restaurant chain founder Bob Evans.  He collaborated with his daughter, Robbin, on the book “A Bountiful Heart.” Retired from the Columbus Dispatch, Harden still writes a twice-weekly metro column.

Cohen Wins SPJ Award

Laurence D. "Larry" Cohen

Laurence Cohen of the Hartford Courant won the First Place “Excellence in Journalism” award from the Connecticut Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists in the Op-Ed Column category.  He also received an Honorable Mention for his column in the Hartford Business Journal.

Texas Student Newspaper Wins Awards

Dave Lieber

The Black Cow, a student newspaper with Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Dave Lieber as its adviser, swept the Texas state scholastic competition by winning 55 awards.  The paper eclipsed its own record from last year and is credited with “vaulting Westlake Academy to journalistic prominence.”  (Read the full story from Alliance Regional Newspapers at http://bit.ly/z14cF…

Brush Still Meeting Her Deadlines

Dorothy Brush, an octogenarian from Tennessee, was not up to traveling to California for last year’s conference.  But she reports that “my brain is still working well and I continue doing two columns each week, plus a few features, too.” NSNC named her Columnist of the Year in 2004 for her courageous battle against cancer,…

Astor and Daughter Both Win Awards

Dave Astor, former Editor&Publisher senior editor who kicks off the 33rd annual NSNC conference with a panel discussion of “A New Generation of Columnists”, shared a second-place award in the annual New Jersey Press Association contest.  His weekly “Montclairvoyant” column helped The Montclair Times get that award in the best editorial section category.   Astor’s…

Brasch Honored by SPJ and Pennsylvania Press Club

Contest Entries Pile Up

  Dr. Walter Brasch, professor of journalism at Bloomsburg University, was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the Pennsylvania Press Club (PPC) for his writings during 2008   His weekly column, “Wanderings”, was named the best commentary in the SPJ Spotlight Awards competition and was second in PPC competition.  His 2,500-word feature,…

HD Is Here: Haught’s New Venture

Keyboard

Are you ready for HD?  No, not high-def.  That’s old hat. It’s “Haughtline Dweethly”, an online magazine updated daily, weekly, monthly – or more often if the editor takes a notion. NSNC Newsletter Editor Robert L. Haught, with an assist from his wife, Mary, launched the new Internet publication March 1.  The magazine’s content is…

Florida Blogger Is Finalist in Readers’ Poll

MC Coolidge had just won a Florida Press Association award for column writing when less than a week later she learned that she was a finalist in the blogging category of Sarasota Magazine’s “The Best of 2009  Readers’ Poll.”   Her reaction: “kind of stunned and more than a little honored.”   “As an independent…

Suddenly Senior Overwhelmed

Frank Kaiser is delighted but overwhelmed at the response to his offer to print selected columns on his “Suddenly Senior” Web site.  The longtime NSNC member from Florida said he received about 30 columns following a notice in the March newsletter inviting the submission of columns that would appeal to his readers.  The nationally syndicated…