NSNC to Recognize 2026 Annual Columnist Contest Winners

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NSNC to Recognize 2026 Annual Columnist Contest Winners

The National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) President and Board of Directors are pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Annual Columnist Contest at an online awards celebration on Thursday, July 23 at 7 p.m. EST. If you would like to join us for the awards ceremony, email nsncdirector@gmail.com for the Zoom link.

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Congratulations to the 2025 NSNC Annual Columnist Contest Winners!

Congratulations to all of the 2025 NSNC Columnist Contest Winners and to the Will Rogers Humanitarian Award Recipient, Susan Odgers! Great job, everyone. View our contest awards slide presentation here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/144vxJWEtuafL9kDeHNA8ReNSp0Pe72yNg_HBUso2joU/edit?slide=id.gdf1a1552a4_0_0#slide=id.gdf1a1552a4_0_0

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National Society of Newspaper Columnists to Recognize 2025 Annual Columnist Contest Winners

CONTACT: Ginny McCabe Executive Director, NSNC NSNCdirector@gmail.com For Immediate Release National Society of Newspaper Columnists to Recognize 2025 Annual Columnist Contest Winners The National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) President and Board of Directors are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Annual Columnist Contest at an online awards celebration on July 17 at…

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NSNC Columnist Contest 2025 – Virtual Awards Ceremony

Judging for the NSNC 2025 Columnist Contest is complete and all of the finalists have been notified via email. The winners will be announced at an online “Happy Hour Soiree” on July 17 at 7 p.m. EST. We hope each of you will be able to attend, and we look forward to honoring all of…

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Call for Nominations – NSNC’s Will Rogers Humanitarian Award

National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) Will Rogers Humanitarian Award – 2025 NSNC’s Will Rogers statuette The Will Rogers Humanitarian Award is presented annually by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists to a writer whose work has positively affected readers’ lives and produced tangible humanitarian benefits. Any regularly published newspaper columnist, investigative reporter, opinion journalist…

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NSNC Annual Columnist ContestDeadline Extended Until May 2 Words you probably never hear from your editor: Deadline extended! You can count on NSNC for a lot of things. State-of-industry knowledge. Writing clinics. Good friends.  Count our “contest deadline extensions” among those. This year we’re extending the deadline to Friday, May 2. Categories include humor, sports,…

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