The NSNC Board of Directors met December 13th with a quorum of members present and President Ben Pollock presiding. The major item of discussion was the 2011 Conference in Detroit. Conference Chair Brian O’Connor reported that the hotel contract with Westin-Cadillac, a five diamond hotel, has been finalized. Amenities included in the contract are free…
Tracy Beckerman won first place in Lifetime Television’s “The Balancing Act” Top Blogger contest. She was one of 20 bloggers who were selected to vie for the title of Top Blogger. “The other participants were all incredible blogging forces of nature and I had been convinced that my chances of winning were slim to none”…
Funny guy, Charles Memminger writes us with some news: Aloha family, friends and “others”, I’m happy to announce that my humor column, Charleyworld, has found a home at Hawaii’s fastest growing Internet news site: the Hawaii Reporter. Charleyworld will be posted weekly, filling in the huge satire, sarcasm, irony, facetiousness, politically-incorrect musings and gecko commentary…
Another hilarious Christmas political satire from NSNC member, Rick Horowitz. Go viral for the holidays — sing along, and share the link! But…could that actually be a vintage aluminum tree with satin balls behind Rick?
Wayne Chan, member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the NSNC, recently received a great write up in Northwest Asian Weekly. Wayne is a syndicated humor columnist born in the US to conservative Chinese parents from mainland China. Chan is an American, but I growing up in a Chinese family made him feel a…
Dave Astor scored again with his Huffington Post article on how a newspaper can alienate loyal subscribers. The basic steps are loosely listed below, but Astor tells it much better and much funnier. STEP 1 – Have a newspaper that is not bad as dailies go, and doesn’t cost much. STEP 2 – Buyout half…
Suzette Standring writes to us: “I’ll be on The Bella Petite Radio Show to talk about my book-in-progress, The Height of Power: Petite Women Speak of Stature. Navigating the world at armpit level (women who are 5¹3 and under) has its unique viewpoints -comical, eye opening and always insightful. Tune in LIVE on Tuesday, November…
NSNC member Adam McCune, who writes a weekly column for the New Hampshire Union Leader, has a new book out. Funny Man Down is a selection of “McCune’s Manchester” columns. www.funnymandown.com McCune, who won second place in the NSNC column writing contest in 2009 (general interest 100,000 and up), also writes freelance articles…
Barry Schrader returned to his roots in DeKalb County four years ago after being away in California for 37 years. A lifelong journalist, he convinced the Daily Chronicle to let him write a weekly column called DeKalb County Life. After three years of writing about people, places and events in “corn country” as he fondly…
Cow Crashed into the Moon is the interesting title of a new book by Trisha Blanchet. “You are not the worst mother in the world!” But don’t worry, you’ll get there,” says Trisha. And her new book can lead the way. Moms don’t need advice. (We already get plenty of that.) We also don’t need “mommy…
NSNC member Jim Higley, Boblehead Dad, wrote to let us know that he has just won a national competition for dad bloggers. Sponsored by a new men’s online magazine, www.manofthehouse.com, he won Grand Prize in their “World’s Greatest Dad” Challenge. The competition included an essay and a video submission. “After three weeks of public voting and final judging…
Karen Rinehart’s newspaper column has run on CatholicExchange.com’s Humor Channel for years. In addition to the column, she has been invited to write a blog for a revamped website. “Naturally I linked the NSNC in my new tagline,” she said http://catholicexchange.com/author/karen-rinehart/ Starting in January, Rinehart – who lives in the Charlotte, N.C. area…
Pete Hamill’s “They Are Us,” an e-book about the politics of immigration in the United States, was tentatively scheduled for release by Little, Brown & Company this fall. According to the New York Post, however, Hamill has dropped the project. Pete Hamill started his career at the New York Post in 1960. He has been a…
As reported by Romenesko in Poynter online, Stu Bykofsky, Philadelphia Daily News, decided to check out Fox News and MSNBC to test whether the point of view presented is fair and balanced or as one-sided as it is often said to be. For a week, the columnist recorded and watched two television shows that…
Dave shares his unique point-of-view at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade by Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Dave Lieber and producer Chris Gomersall/Upstairs Media.
Ed Grisamore, the recipient of the 2010 Will Rogers Humanitarian Award, recently completed a writing project that was completely different. He wrote the script for a musical called “Durworld: The Life and Times of Mr. Doubletalk.” It was performed by the Youth Actors Company at Theatre Macon on Nov. 6-14. In addition to writing the…
Former President of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Samantha Bennett, is one of several tour guides who will be telling scary ghost stories during walking tours of Pittsburgh this October. Sponsors believe it is a nice way to tell Pittsburgh history and ghost stories at the same time. After taking a buyout at the…
