The NSNC Educational Foundation held their annual meeting Sunday, Oct 30, 2011 in the NSNC Chat Room with a quorum present. This board now begins the second year of their 2-year term, as appointed in 2010 by NSNC President Samantha Bennett and affirmed by current President Ben Pollock, per the bylaws. Financial records were provided…
Russell Frank, associate professor of communications at Penn State University and member of the NSNC Board of Directors, was recently published in The Washington Post with a by-lined story about Herb Block, a four-time Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist at The Washington Post. Frank is serving as a consultant to the Library of Congress for its Herbock Oral…
The 9th annual meeting of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Education Foundation, as required by the IRS, will be held on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2011 (UPDATED) in the NSNC EF Chat Room. The five officers (President Jim Casto, Vice President Eric Heyl, Secretary Dave Lieber, Treasurer Joe Blundo and Assistant Secretary/Treasurer Dr. Amy…
New York Publisher, St. Martin’s Press, has announced a two-book deal between Minotaur Books and Hawaii-based Charles Memminger. Memminger has been recognized as one of the top humor columnists in the country and is a frequent winner in the humor categories of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual writing contest. Memminger began his three…
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) is pleased to announce that John P. Avlon has autographed 10 copies of his new book, Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns, to be distributed free to the first 10 people, who join the NSNC with a three-year membership. Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns is a salute…
Here’s Your Best Column Ever By Dave Lieber Fort Worth Star-Telegram Columnist http://www.yankeecowboy.com/ Somehow very few of us in NSNC are included in the new book, Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns. So in my last column I announced my own version – NSNC Members’ Greatest Columns. I asked for your…
The 2012 NSNC Conference will be in Macon, Georgia, May 3-6 at the Marriott Hotel. Macon is 85 miles south of Atlanta. The board voted to accept Ed Grisamore’s recommendation at the regular business meeting last Sunday with a quorum present. The conference chair recommended this date since Macon is the “prettiest place on earth in the spring.” It…
Columnists are writers, not publicists. If you finally write that book, what do you do with it? The idea of having to market a book can be a pretty scary one. On the NSNC discussion forum, Walter Brasch recently suggested a new book about publicity technques by a friend of his, Carolyn Howard-Johnson. If is…
By Ben S. Pollock President, National Society of Newspaper Columnists Your president is looking out for your welfare. Thank me later. Tracy Beckerman, chairman of the Social Media Committee, although an NSNC member for several years, still is trying to figure us out. Just before Labor Day, the new board member e-mailed me: “I would…
A prospective member asked, “What do I get for my $50 if I join NSNC?” NSNC President Ben Pollock tackled the question and his spontaneous, off-the-cuff answer was so sensible that we decided to share it for the benefit of others who might wonder. President Pollock said: This is an old, hard-to-explain deal, and we consider…
Ernie Pyle’s Distinguished Alumni Award was awarded last weekend by the Indiana University School of Journalism, which was celebrating its centennial. The university created a Hall of Fame with 15 inductees, 10 posthumous and five living. Since Ernie has no living relatives, they asked Mike Leonard to accept on behalf of the National Society of Newspaper…
The San Francisco Chronicle’s Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Herb Caen will be showcased in multimedia presentations for Apple iPad users, according to MarketWire. Caen’s classic stories will be narrated by some of his closest friends and video will include vintage photos and film footage of San Francisco and the Bay Area notables that Caen wrote about…
The Room in the Elephant By Ben S. Pollock President National Society of Newspaper Columnists The board of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists has been cleaning up after the party in Detroit. While washing glasses and emptying the trash, we share the usual mix of gleeful recollection of anecdotes and recriminations about disasters that…
Milton (MA) – Writer Suzette Martinez Standring is published in a book of stories about those embarrassing “comedy-of-error” moments that make us all human. “Mug of Woe: Tales to Make You Realize Your Life is Awesome” (Amazon Digital Services, $5.99 on Kindle, 223 pages, July 2011) features essays from over forty humorists and stand-up comedians…
Overheard on the NSNC Discussions list was this humorous donut discussion: “I deny that I’ve ever been in a doughnut shop. I deny that I’ve ever seen a doughnut. I deny that I ate it. I deny that it was delicious,” ventured Bruce Cameron. Bob Haught confessed, “I admit that I’ve been in a doughnut shop, Britt’s…
By Suzette Martinez Standring NSNC Past President “Give a little to get a lot.” I never forgot this memorable advice from Mary McCarty of the Dayton Daily News, who has won awards for unique insights often revealed in the telling details about, and the quotations from, the people featured in her columns. I work at…
Jerry Zezima’s book, “Leave It to Boomer,” recently won humor book of the year honors from the Connecticut Press Club. Jerry, also, was a recent guest on “Senior Moments,” a cable access TV program on Channel 20 on Long Island, N.Y. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists was mentioned on the show. http://www.vimeo.com/28073383 Zezima writes…
