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After an inspiring weekend in Cincinnati, may conference-goers returned to home to write about their experience. Below are excerpts and links to articles that have been shared with us. If yours is not listed and you’d like to add yours please email the link to Bonnie and media@columnists.com and we’ll include yours in the listing on our website. Articles are listed below in alphabetical order by author’s last name.
Chris Carosa
“Named for George Washington’s Roman protégé, with a nod to that ancient empire’s capital the city of Cincinnati has long been called the City of Seven Hills. Indeed, for a hundred or so of the nation’s finest columnists, the undulating topography of Cincinnati’s inclined streets no doubt left an ache in the shins that echoed for several days.”
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Adam Earhardt
“Jerry Springer said, “Because of social media, everyone is a politician. Everyone is a columnist.”
“Springer said this in his remarks to newspaper columnists and writers at this past weekend’s National Society of Newspaper Columnists conference in Cincinnati.”
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http://www.vindy.com/news/2018/jun/13/how-to-build-an-online-fan-base/
Bonnie Feldkamp
“The conference is over. It was a great weekend. A joy to meet each and every one of you. I hope you take some of my affection for Cincinnati home with you.”
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https://writerbonnie.com/2018/06/13/my-hometown-cincinnati/
Lee Gaitlin
“Last week I traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio, to attend the 2018 National Society of Newspaper Columnists Conference. I always look forward to this annual gathering of the tribe, but this year’s event in Cincinnati held a special attraction for me because someone I once believed would play a significant role in my life lived in the area and would be attending our group’s luncheon. Years ago it seemed my future and his might be forever entwined, but, alas, our paths had diverged and we ended up in different worlds.”
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Ginnie Graham
“CINCINNATI, Ohio — It took about five minutes for Jerry Springer to win over the college-classroom-size audience of columnists and bloggers.
Journalists can be a tough crowd, especially when faced with a pop culture figure associated with chair throwing, hair pulling, punches and trash talking.
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Jase Graves
This summer my wife and I traveled to Cincinnati to collect my second leg lamp for humor writing from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists at the annual conference. The conference itself was outstanding, and it was a privilege to meet Pulitzer Prize-winning columnists Clarence Page, Rochelle Riley and Connie Schultz, who write about important topics like truth in journalism, race in America, and the struggles of underrepresented populations. Disheartening self-comparisons were inevitable, though, considering that most of my columns feature someone not wearing pants — usually me.
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https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/07/18/humor-columnist-jase-graves/792610002/
Kathryn Mayer
“Fight or flight? I chose flight after a fight with my rather attractive pain-in-the-ass husband and flew to Cincinnati.”
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https://kathrynmayer.com/2018/06/no-joke-you-are-reading-a-national-award-winning-columnist.html
Tina Neyer
“The National Society of Newspaper Columnists held their conference in Cincinnati last weekend. Amid presentations by Jerry Springer and Nick Clooney, veteran news people suggested that we find ways to twist our words to grab more readers and get our points across. I thought about what I say to people when I tell them I live in Kentucky. They look at me in disbelief, offer some smarmy comment about Mitch McConnell or roll their eyes at the mention of Matt Bevin. That’s when I metaphorically put a bag over my head, nod and say, “I know, I know. Politically we have our problems, but you don’t know the people.”
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https://www.tinalneyer.com/blog/america-want-to-borrow-my-bag
Wally Spiers
“I had never been to Cincinnati and had no desire to go there.
“Still I found myself headed down Interstate 64, toward Interstate 71 during the five-hour drive to the Queen City last week. The occasion was the 2018 conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.”Read More:
Read more here: http://www.bnd.com/living/magazine/article213205859.html#storylink=cpy
Molly Stevens
“I went to the National Society of Newspaper Columnists conference last week in Cincinnati. This year’s theme was ‘Where pigs fly and writers soar, bring home the bacon.’ It turns out I did both, but not in the way I expected.”
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https://www.shallowreflections.com/how-i-soared-and-brought-home-the-bacon-at-nsnc18/
Jamie Stiehm
“CINCINNATI — I look across the Ohio River and I sigh.
The winding river divided America for so long between free and slave states, North and South, Ohio and Kentucky. Runaway slaves crossed to freedom on the other shore. This was the most contested land and water before the Civil War.
“An apt symbol of how deeply divided America is now and again.”
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https://www.creators.com/read/jamie-stiehm/06/18/ohio-both-sides-of-the-political-river
Bill Tammeus
“CINCINNATI — While I was here this past weekend for the annual conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, I had with me a book that I’m reading for review, Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, by John Fea. (I’ll publish my review here on the blog a bit later.)
“And in it I ran across the name of a divinity school in Cincinnati of which I’d never heard — Lane Theological Seminary. Fea, in describing the many fears that have plagued evangelicals across American history, notes that “Lyman Beecher, a well-known New England Congregationalist minister, became the first president of Lane. . .”
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http://billtammeus.typepad.com/my_weblog/2018/06/6-14-18.html
Diane Tarantini?
“This situation occurred recently in Cincinnati when I attended, for the first time, the annual conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. If my husband hadn’t accompanied me, I doubt I would’ve met many people. In fact, I might have cloistered myself in my room except for the workshops.”
Susan Doust Young
“Three cities with totally different personalities lie within driving distance of each other, offering surprising experiences within Ohio. Cincinnati, Akron, and Cleveland represent middle America with a different take on the culture of the state.”
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https://www.travelpulse.com/news/destinations/a-tale-of-three-cities-in-ohio.html
