Tag: new york

Pete Hamill Drops E-book

 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…

Bedbugs Bite the News Business

The main offices of The Wall Street Journal and the New York headquarters of its parent company, News Corp., were cleared for bedbug treatment recently. The suspected bedbug outbreak was traced to a staff member of a subsidiary of News Corp. Although no actual bugs were found, bedbug-sniffing dogs indicated their probable presence. The Journal…

Sackcloth and Ashes

By Cappy Hall Rearick, NSNC Member On the eleventh morning of this month, we Americans will turn off our alarm clocks, get out of bed, put on the coffee, do our morning rituals and at some point perhaps glance at a calendar. That is when we will remember exactly where we were when we learned…

Member Appears on CNN

NSNC Member, Ahmed Soliman, thought you might be interested in watching the CNN interview/debate he did with the organizer of a protest against the construction of a mosque near ground zero in New York (aired on Sunday morning). He says, “I was invited onto the program after writing a column about the topic. ” The…