Save the Date - NSNC 2024 Virtual Conference - July 19 and 20

Call for Entries - 2024 NSNC Annual Columnist Contest

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Registration Open - Erma Home Schooling

Call for Entries - 2024 NSNC Annual Columnist Contest

Submissions Now Open - NSNC Annual Columnist Contest - Enter Today! National Society of Newspaper Columnists Annual Column Contest Open: January 15, 2024 8:00 a.m. (EST) Closes: April 15, 2024 11:59 p.m. (EST) For Registration & General Guidelines visit: nsnc.submittable.com/submit Email Adam Earnheardt, contest chair, with any questions at acearnheardt@ysu.edu. Submit your best work! You could be one of this year's winners!

Join NSNC and Reap the Benefits!

Hope your New Year is off to an amazing start. We are excited for What’s in-store for NSNC members this year. We will also be launching our annual contest in January, so you’ll want to be sure your membership is up-to-date. Also, if you have ideas, suggestions, etc., please share with our president, Lori Duff, at lori@loriduffwrites.com or myself at nsncdirector@gmail.com Blessings to all!

Registration Open - Erma Home Schooling

The Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop is sold out, but it’s not too late for writers to experience the conference’s special blend of joy and laughter, support, and inspiration. Registration is open for Erma Home Schooling, a package that includes five keynotes live-streamed from the in-person workshop as well as four exclusive workshops. Early bird rate: $199 by March 1. The fee is $225 after March 1. Go to https://udayton.edu/blogs/erma/2023/12/doordash_erma.php for details.

Print Magazines vs. Internet

Major magazines have been attempting to promote the print version of their publications. They have been running an ad campaign to promote print versions rather than digital format according to an article in the New York Times. Ads seem to actually attack the Internet. For example, one part of the ad campaign says, “Magazines don’t…

A Question of Journalistic Ethics

Contest Entries Pile Up

Newspaper Guild President Bernie Lunzer questions a newspaper’s decision to seek corporate donations to fund a trip to Afghanistan. Lunzer reports, “A financial arrangement between The New Hampshire Union Leader – the state’s largest daily newspaper – and several Granite State businesses that has allowed the paper’s publisher to report from Afghanistan is pushing the…

Suzette Standring on Radio Show

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…

New Book by New Hampshire Columnist

   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…

New Book by Illinois Member

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…