Tag: Lifetime Achievement Winners

Chronicle Columnist Was Commended in California

This is the 17th in a series of articles about recipients of the NSNC’s annual Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award. By Dave Astor Archivist National Society of Newspaper Columnists San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll didn’t leave California to receive the NSNC’s Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award — and he also didn’t leave his Chronicle…

Pete Hamill receives Honorary Doctorate Degree

 Pete Hamill, well known journalist and author, received an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from St. John’s University. Hamill is best known to members of the National Society of Newspaper columnists as the winner of the NSNC Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, which was presented at the annual conference in Grapevine, Texas. Hamill…