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.

New York Times to go out of print

At a recent International Newsroom Summit Conference, the New York Times publisher and chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. stated that he eventually expects the NYT will no longer be in print, acknowledging a fact that has become obvious to media watchers. “We will stop printing the New York Times sometime in the future, date TBD,” Sulzberger…

Iraq War Deadliest for Media since WWII

The war in Iraq has been the most deadly conflict for journalists since World War II, with 230 murdered since the US invasion March 2003 during seven years of occupation by the coalition forces, according to the press freedom group called Reporter without Borders. This is more than were killed during the entire Vietnam War,…

Get Your Official NSNC T-Shirt

The official NSNC T-Shirt allows you to identify with the other members of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and to proudly display your colors. In this case the colors are black with a bright dash of  yellow lettering. (Yes, we know the unfortunate association “yellow” has with “journalism,” but the color combo is cool…

9/11 – A Memorial

World Trade Center Memorial

Many NSNC members have written columns for the ninth anniversary of the coordinated series of terrorist attacks that took place September 11, 2001, in New York City, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania. * * * John Messeder – Gettysburg Times – “Recalling 9-11, all of it” John writes: “… I was crossing Baltimore Street, heading into…

Updates to NSNC Website

While continuing to post new information on a continuing basis, we are also making a few changes. One of the more obvious is more “blogs” now being displayed on the front page. In the last few days, we have also made numerous behind the scenes changes to make it easier to navigate so you can…

President Obama Writes Column

President Barack Obama wrote an exclusive column for impreMedia’s Spanish-language digital and print newspapers, Editor and Publisher reported September 8th. And he will give a one-on-one interview to the group’s Washington correspondent, Antonieta Cádiz. This signals the importance that the Hispanic community has within the US, according to impreMedia’s press release. The interview covers a…