Contest submissions now open! We are accepting entries from columnists, bloggers, and serial essayists for our 2026 Annual Columnist Contest (for work published in 2025). We will accept entries from columnists, bloggers, and serial essayists published in 2025. Everyone is welcome to submit. You don’t have to be an NSNC member.
We’re counting down to #SunshineWeek 2026, March 15-21. Together, we champion #OpenRecords and #OpenGovernment nationwide March 15-21. #FOIA #transparency. Free resources: sunshineweek.org
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We are excited for What’s in-store for NSNC members this year. We are gearing up to launch the NSNC Annual Columnist Contest on January 15, so you’ll want to be sure your membership is up-to-date. Also, if you have ideas, suggestions, etc., please share them with our President Meredith Cummings at meredithcummings@gmail.com or Executive Director Ginny McCabe at nsncdirector@gmail.com. Thank you for your support of NSNC!
Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned in disgrace in 2008, has been chosen as a co-host of a new primetime news program on CNN replacing Campbell Brown. Spitzer will be joined by the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist for The Washington Post, Kathleen Parker. Longtime NSNC member Kathleen Parker is one of America’s…
Arthur Brisbane, a longtime editor and journalist, will become the new public editor at The New York Times, a job considered by many as one of the sweetest in journalism. Brisbane brings 34 years of journalistic experience to the job, including publisher and editor of The Kansas City Star and reporter and editor at The Washington…
From the studios of Milwaukee Public TV direct to your computer screen, NSNC member, Rick Horowitz has a gusher of new on-camera commentaries on YouTube and ready for your inspection and occasional entertainment. The facts don’t matter in Washington anymore — it’s the story you can *tell* about the facts. Satirist Rick Horowitz explains it…
Thanks to President Obama, the expression “kick ass” (or variations thereof) has come off the street and into mainstream news coverage. Headline writers and TV news readers were freed from restraint after the president told Matt Lauer of the Today show he was talking to experts to find answers about the Gulf oil spill “so…
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…
While our illustrious group does not include sports columnists on a regular basis, I thought I’d share some news seeing as how I alternate between a sports column and humor column. I attended the Georgia Sports Writers Association’s Annual Meeting this past Sunday in Marietta, Georgia. The event featured a number of speakers and the…
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists 2026 Annual Columnist Contest is open and accepting entries through April 17. “We are accepting entries from columnists, bloggers, and serial essayists for work published in 2025. Everyone is welcome to submit. You don’t have to be an NSNC member to enter. However, you can save on entry fees…
NSNC member Paul Lander’s new video, “54321: Five Rejected Peanuts Specials,” is a fast, funny parody poking fun at those classic Peanuts holiday specials. It’s one installment in a growing humor series ‘54321,’ Paul co-wrote, executive produced, co-created with filmmaker Matthew Clark. Watch here Lander’s new video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn5vf2M8Ls0
We’re counting down to #SunshineWeek 2026, March 15-21. Together, we champion #OpenRecords and #OpenGovernment nationwide March 15-21. #FOIA #transparency. Free resources: sunshineweek.org
NSNC 2026 Columnist Contest Read the Rules, Select Your Category, and Enter HERE Beginning on January 15, 2026, we are accepting entries from columnists, bloggers, and serial essayists for our Annual Columnist Contest (for work published in 2025). Enter here. We are accepting entries from columnists, bloggers, and serial essayists published in 2025. Everyone is welcome to…
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists 2026 Annual Columnist Contest is open and accepting entries through April 17. “We are accepting entries from columnists, bloggers, and serial essayists for work published in 2025. Everyone is welcome to submit. You don’t have to be an NSNC member to enter. However, you can save on entry fees by…
