The winner of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ 2022 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award is…Mary C. Curtis.
Mary C. Curtis to Join the NSNC’s List of Lifetime Luminaries
Category: Speakers
Writing as a Tool to Face America’s Past
FREE event but registration required HERE. Rochelle Riley ended a nearly 20-year career as a nationally syndicated, award-winning Detroit columnist in 2019 to become the City of Detroit’s Director of Arts and Culture. In that role, she guides the city’s investment in the arts and creates opportunities for transformative innovation. Her most recent project was the…
Q&A With Michael Paul Williams, NSNC Award Recipient and Now a Pulitzer Winner!
Michael Paul Williams is one of those columnists who makes other columnists exhale after reading him: “So, that’s how it’s done,” we sigh.
Join Me in the Zoom Where It Happens
Curtis HoneycuttNSNC Treasurer and Conference Committee I can’t begin to explain how much the NSNC has meant to me over the past three years. I met many of you word warriors in Cincinnati in 2018, back when it was possible to rub shoulders with other humans. In 2019, many of us spent a weekend in…
Emerging Social Platforms: Pick One and Run with It
By Rebecca RegnierNSNC Member There’s no question social media can be confusing. Just when you figure out one platform, it changes, or another emerges. Should I be on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat? The landscape is littered with the bodies of dead social media platforms. Watch out. You just stepped in a pile of MySpace! But the…
Tony Messenger: How One Story Snowballed into a Series That Changed Missouri Law
By Suzette Martinez StandringDirector Emeritus Newsroom reporters and columnists may see themselves when NSNC Member and metro columnist Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch will share how paying attention, listening, and strong storytelling led to a series of columns that won him the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He will be a featured speaker…
A Talk with David Maraniss
David Maraniss – the two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner and award-winning biographer talked to NSNC Communications Director Bonnie Jean Feldkamp about his writing process.
An Inspiring NSNC Webinar Is In the Books
By Tony NormanNSNC President My first NSNC webinar will probably rank as my favorite virtual interview of the pandemic age for quite a while. Last month, I had the pleasure of interviewing Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Sunday Book Review and grand Poobah of all its book coverage throughout the week. The weekly podcast she…
George Will: Questions and Answers
By Steve AustNSNC Executive Director As the writer of thousands of columns, the author of 19 books, and a frequent TV presence, George Will looms as one of the nation’s leading conservative commentators. His erudite perspectives provide thoughtful insights on an array of economic and social issues – and, regarding his other overarching passion, baseball.…
Pulitzer Winner Tony Messenger Ameliorated Some Misery in Missouri
Post-Dispatch metro columnist Tony Messenger, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. The writer, now 53, earned the award for a searing series of columns
George Will to Receive the 2020 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ 2020 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is…George Will!
He’ll accept the prestigious honor during the NSNC’s annual conference next June in Tulsa, Oklahoma .
Buffalo Speaker Dave Lieber Adds Playwright to His Long Résumé
By Dave Astor NSNC Archivist Dave Lieber will talk about TED at our annual conference, but Amon is also on his mind. When Dave speaks at our Buffalo conference June 22, the Dallas Morning News “Watchdog” columnist will tell attendees what a TED talk is, why they should do one, and how to make that…
It’ll Be Back to Buffalo for Washington Post Columnist Margaret Sullivan
By Dave Astor NSNC Archivist Margaret Sullivan will be the June 22 afternoon keynote speaker during our upcoming annual conference in Buffalo, New York. She’s the media columnist for The Washington Post, the former public editor of The New York Times, and the former editor of The Buffalo News. I interviewed her via email on…
Mary C. Curtis on Column-Writing in a Polarized Time
By Dave Astor NSNC Archivist When Mary C. Curtis speaks at our Buffalo conference on June 22, she plans to discuss how opinion writers can approach sensitive issues – and deal with the reader reaction that follows. Ms. Curtis is the perfect person to talk about that, because her Roll Call column and other media…
He Understands That Writing Should Be Understandable
By Dave Astor NSNC Archivist When David Cay Johnston speaks June 22 at our conference in Buffalo, NY, he’ll discuss how to present complicated information to readers in an understandable way. The 2001 Pulitzer Prize winner said the importance of that can’t be overemphasized – whether the person doing the writing is a columnist, blogger,…
John Avlon Has Been a Columnist in Various Media
By Dave Astor NSNC Archivist CNN’s John Avlon will be one of the NSNC’s main speakers during our June 20-23 conference in Buffalo, NY. Avlon – who’ll keynote the Will Rogers Humanitarian Award evening on June 21 – is a senior political analyst and fill-in anchor at CNN, former Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast, author…
Nick Clooney: Things I Thought I Knew, and Other Reflections
On June 9, 2018, as people applauded Nick Clooney’s wonderful speech, NSNC member Rick Horowitz sprang into action. Rick asked me, “Any way we can ask Nick for his speech notes?” It hadn’t occurred to me that Nick Clooney had his entire speech written down on the yellow notepad in front of him. Bullet points, sure. But…