by Sheila Moss, WebEditor In a recent column of advice to journalism students, Robert Niles warned, “Be careful what you post online as it reflects upon the reputation you are trying to build.” As it turns out, truer words were never spoken for Sports Columnist Mike Wise of the Washington Post who got himself in…
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Miscellaneous articles.
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Humor: The reality of airwaves
By Robert Hankins, NSNC Member The Record (Orange, Texas) I always hear doctors and nurses say Hollywood can’t get it right on medical dramas in movies and television shows; lawyers tell me the same thing. I myself have noticed this over the years about the newspaper business. So I’ve compiled this list concerning Tinseltown’s version…
The Dalai Lama’s Bedroom
By Suzette Martinez Standring, Past President, NSNC Only through the NSNC would I find myself in the bedroom of the Dalai Lama. Ducking into his second floor bedroom came toward the end of an afternoon’s visit by NSNC conference attendees to The Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in southern Indiana. I’m here to report that…
Venerable DC Book Store On the Market
Book stores are biting the dust all over the country, with the dominance of chains, the convenience of Internet purchasing and the growing popularity of e-books. Whether a venerable book shop in Washington, D.C. can hang onto lifeafter more than a quarter century remains to be seen. Politics and Prose, a book tour stop for…
The Oil Crisis
By Sherry Antonetti, NSNC Member The Gulf of Mexico was my growing up summer place, so I’ve been following this crisis from the get go for personal reasons. I saw Hurricane Rita rip my hometown of Beaumont to shreds in 2005 and Hurricane Ike (2008) destroy a whole community that was part of my childhood…
Humor in the Classifieds
Video – Did You Know?
VIDEO – Did you Know?
Some astounding facts about technology and rapid change in society. Did you know? China will soon be the #1 English speaking country. Did you know? The top 10 in demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004. Did you know? 1 of 8 couples meet online. Did you know? There are 31 billion searches on Google every month.
Dave Barry, Still Immature at 62
Dave Barry, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his humor column at the Miami Herald, and a featured guest speaker at the NSNC Conference in Philadelphia in 2007, is still at it and apparently, as funny as ever. He recently did an interview with Bryan Curtis, senior editor, at The Daily Beast. Dave’s latest book is…
My Subconscious Has Been Loitering in the Greeting Card Aisle
By Rima Tessman http://rimarama.blogspot.com At a writers’ workshop I attended in April, there was one session advertised in the brochure as an opportunity to mine one’s subconscious mind for writing material using relaxation techniques and guided imagery. That’s code for “hypnosis” if I ever saw it, so naturally I signed myself right up. If there’s…
Why you should apply to become a columnist next year
By Kevin Duvall, Student Columnist, The Daily Athenaeum West Virginia University official student newspaper This will probably be the last column I ever write for The Daily Athenaeum, as I am graduating this summer and am uncertain of where or when I will attend graduate school. Since I’m a Monday regular, I had the last…
Column about Columns
Will Rogers Memorial Fights Merger
The Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, Oklahoma, established in 1937 by Oklahoma law “to operate and maintain” a memorial to Will Rogers, is fighting a battle to retain its individual identity in the face of a severe budget crisis in the state of Oklahoma. Gov. Brad Henry has proposed a merger of the Will Rogers…
Unanswered Questions From The Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop
By Wanda Argersinger NSNC Member I recently returned from the Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop in Dayton, Ohio. I know what you’re thinking – why Dayton. The University of Dayton is Erma’s Alma Mater. Could you think of a better and more fitting place to hold it? I didn’t think so. I still haven’t unpacked. I…
Will work for free???
According to a Twitter blog by IWantMedia, Forbes magazine is now looking for bloggers to work for free. An article by Hamilton Nolan at Gawker.com, quotes a communication sent to Patrick Phillip, founder of IWantMedia, which invites him to write for them without compensation. Forbes is quoted as saying, “Our idea is to build a…
The only real option
By Robert Hankins The Record Newspapers, Orange, Texas NSNC member since 2007 I was at a commissioners’ court meeting recently. Resolutions, proclamations and a lot of discussion. Every now and then, something gets done. It’s not a perfect system, but has some merits – mainly because we need our afternoon naps. That’s been my little…
G.I. Joe
The Story of the G.I. Joe Action Figure By Tom Henderson, Columnist You might have noticed a minor journalistic controversy a few years back after the great columnist Ernie Pyle was turned into a G.I. Joe doll (excuse me, action figure). Purists were peeved. Ernie was rolling about his grave, they said. A humble man…