News about our annual conference – check back for updates!
by Adam Earnheardt, NSNC Interim Executive Director Forward. It’s that simple. Move forward. Look forward. It amazes me how that one word—Forward—can simultaneously conjure feelings of anticipation, hopefulness, and enthusiasm. It’s hard not to want to look forward these days. Even when you italicize the word Forward, it just looks cool. Speak of 2020 or…
by Daniela Gitlin, MD The NSNC conference is scheduled to happen live June 9-12, 2022 at the Doubletree by Hilton, Birmingham Perimeter Park in Alabama. You, like me, might be of two minds about attending. You might have various COVID-related concerns. But also, you might really, really want to go. Do you crave contact, with real people, in real-time,…
By Suzette Martinez Standring, Director Emeritus Our Birmingham conference is back on track! The in-person event is set for Thursday-Sunday, June 9-12, 2022, with educational, awards and activities scheduled to take place on Friday and Saturday. The venue will be at the DoubleTree by Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park. How safe is it? A Zoom meeting with…
The winner of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ 2022 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award is…Mary C. Curtis.
FREE event but registration required HERE. Rochelle Riley ended a nearly 20-year career as a nationally syndicated, award-winning Detroit columnist in 2019 to become the City of Detroit’s Director of Arts and Culture. In that role, she guides the city’s investment in the arts and creates opportunities for transformative innovation. Her most recent project was the…
Michael Paul Williams is one of those columnists who makes other columnists exhale after reading him: “So, that’s how it’s done,” we sigh.
Curtis HoneycuttNSNC Treasurer and Conference Committee I can’t begin to explain how much the NSNC has meant to me over the past three years. I met many of you word warriors in Cincinnati in 2018, back when it was possible to rub shoulders with other humans. In 2019, many of us spent a weekend in…
By Rebecca RegnierNSNC Member There’s no question social media can be confusing. Just when you figure out one platform, it changes, or another emerges. Should I be on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat? The landscape is littered with the bodies of dead social media platforms. Watch out. You just stepped in a pile of MySpace! But the…
By Suzette Martinez StandringDirector Emeritus Newsroom reporters and columnists may see themselves when NSNC Member and metro columnist Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch will share how paying attention, listening, and strong storytelling led to a series of columns that won him the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. He will be a featured speaker…
David Maraniss – the two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner and award-winning biographer talked to NSNC Communications Director Bonnie Jean Feldkamp about his writing process.
By Tony NormanNSNC President My first NSNC webinar will probably rank as my favorite virtual interview of the pandemic age for quite a while. Last month, I had the pleasure of interviewing Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Sunday Book Review and grand Poobah of all its book coverage throughout the week. The weekly podcast she…
By Steve AustNSNC Executive Director As the writer of thousands of columns, the author of 19 books, and a frequent TV presence, George Will looms as one of the nation’s leading conservative commentators. His erudite perspectives provide thoughtful insights on an array of economic and social issues – and, regarding his other overarching passion, baseball.…
February 25 email conversation with David Maraniss
Post-Dispatch metro columnist Tony Messenger, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. The writer, now 53, earned the award for a searing series of columns
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ 2020 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is…George Will!
He’ll accept the prestigious honor during the NSNC’s annual conference next June in Tulsa, Oklahoma .
By Dave Astor NSNC Archivist Dave Lieber will talk about TED at our annual conference, but Amon is also on his mind. When Dave speaks at our Buffalo conference June 22, the Dallas Morning News “Watchdog” columnist will tell attendees what a TED talk is, why they should do one, and how to make that…
By Robert L. Haught Will Rogers Writers Foundation Retired Military Chaplain Norris Burkes, who writes a syndicated column that offers a hope-filled approach to everyday spirituality, is the recipient of the 2019 Will Rogers Humanitarian Award sponsored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Jennifer Rogers-Etcheverry, great grand-daughter of Will Rogers, will present the award…
