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Welcome! Whether you write for newspapers, magazines, newsletters, trade journals or you create a podcast or write digital content, or you manage your own blog … whether you’re on staff, a freelancer, syndicated, self-syndicated or independent, if you write opinion or provide commentary, we invite you to join the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Join us at https://www.columnists.com/join-or-renew-membership/.

Consider a Gift to the NSNC Education Foundation

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists Education Foundation is a tax-exempt charitable organization [501(c)3] devoted to the education and training of new and experienced columnists everywhere. Donate here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/NSNCEdFnd

In the January Newsletter

New Year’s resolutions?  Again?  Oh, come on. Well, President Ben Pollock does have a way of making a worn-out device fresh and amusing, as well as good advice. Also some tips on the business side of writing … a “Membership Bonus” for all members. And a variety of happenings in the World’s Longest Column About…

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Chicago Member Has New Book

NSNC member Jennifer Grant’s memoir “Love You More: The Divine Surprise of Adopting My Daughter” will be published in August 2011 by Thomas Nelson publishers. Jennifer writes a column for the Chicago Tribune. Jennifer Grant’s work has been published on websites including britannica.com and in magazines.  For more than a decade, she wrote features, restaurant profiles,…

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NSNC Supports Open-Records Issue

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists has joined with other journalism organizations in expressing concern regarding a policy at institutions in the Texas A&M University System that might result in preventing journalism instructors from telling their students to file open-records requests when completing assignments. “Journalism associations need to stick together on First Amendment and freedom…

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Grisamore in Cookbook for Charity

Ed Grisamore of the Macon (GA) Telegraph is featured in a new cookbook being sold to support programs of the Rebuilding Macon organization. Some of Macon’s most gifted chefs and cooks have generously contributed their recipes for this beautiful, full-color cookbook. In the foreword for “Let’s Get Cooking”, written by Grisamore, readers can learn how…

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New York Times Reviews 2011 Conference Hotel

The Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, site of the upcoming NSNC 2011 Conference, June 23-26, was recently the subject of a hotel review in the New York Times : When the Westin Book Cadillac opened in 1924, it was said to be the tallest hotel in the world. It flourished for decades before succumbed to…

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Top 25 – Left and Right

Who are the top 25 pundits?  Check it out. From Right Wing News, a list of the 25 Best Conservative Columnists of 2010 (Dec 2010) . From The Daily Beast, the Left’s Top 25 Journalists (Feb. 2010)

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