By Bonnie Squires Published April 27, 2011 Main Line Media Well, I must confess that I do not plan to set my alarm for 4 a.m. tomorrow morning in order to watch the royal wedding. I mean, I have been trying to understand what all the fuss is about. So Prince William is going to…
NSNC member W. Bruce Cameron, who will receive the Columnist of the Year Award at the Detroit Conference, recently informed us, “My novel, “A Dog’s Purpose,” which spent 19 weeks on the NY Times bestseller list as a hard cover, will be out in paperback on May 24th, 2011.” Cameron has already made headlines with the…
A Columnists Day update: Ernie Pyle’s historic site trying to rebound: By Mike Leonard mleonard@heraldt.com Previously Published by Herald Times 4/17/2011 National Columnists Day was established for an annual April 18 observation because it marks the day that columnist Ernie Pyle was killed on an island in the South Pacific during World War II. Pyle was…
Tim Hetherington, an Academy Award nominated film photographer, died Wednesday while covering the war outside a rebel-held city in Libya. Hetherington’s film was a documentary about soldiers at an outpost in Afghanistan. He was in Libya working on a multimedia project to highlight humanitarian issues during time of war. Chris Hondros, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated photojournalist…
Word is out that Bill Tammeus did a great job in a 10-minute informal interview on Mitch Albom’s radio show on WJR in Detroit, where he appeared to talk about his role in the origin of National Columnists Day. Albom hosts a primarily sports talk call-in show and the transition from jock talk — and traffic reports —…
The 2011 Nominations Committee announced a slate of excellent candidates to present in Detroit for a vote of the NSNC membership at its annual meeting June 26. Members will vote for five officers, who will serve two-year terms and are members of the Board of Directors. In addition, a nominee will be elected to serve…
Belated, but wonderful video tribute. You’ll see a lot of faces you recognize. Thanks to CalendarAwarenessTV for recognizing us.
Ed Grisamore, Columnist at The Telegraph (Macon, GA), 2012 Conference Chair and winner of the 2010 Will Rogers Humanitarian Award, wrote this column for National Columnists’ Day. What Would Ernie Do? | Macom.com By Ed Grisamore, The Telegraph Today is National Columnists Day, a day usually reserved for newspaper columnists to write a column about…
Russell Frank’s book, titled “Newslore: Contemporary Folklore on the Internet,” was just published by the University Press of Mississippi. An examination of the fireworks and folderol that erupt when folklore and current events collide Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes, urban…
Check out the blog of Florida’s Writer’s Conference that quotes our columnists.com article about Bruce being selected for the Columnist of the Year Award. It’s great to see that Bruce will be the keynote speaker at this conference next October in Orlando. The photo is of Bruce Cameron and Suzette Standring, Past President of the National…
NSNC member and award-winning writer, Bill Nash, has just announced the release of his first novel, Fog Delay. The thriller is set at San Francisco International Airport where a disgruntled explosives expert has vowed revenge against the airport. “The book’s villain, James Donato, makes his living imploding buildings for demolition companies. The problem is, when…
The following is an open letter to President Obama about World Press Freedom Day. It’s from the Student Press Law Center. A list of its signatories follows. On May 3, the United States will, for the first time, play host to World Press Freedom Day, an event that will focus an international spotlight on the…
Major items of discussion at the April meeting of the NSNC Board of Directors were upcoming conferences and the writing contest. The NSNC Board of Directors met Monday evening, April 11, with a quorum present in the chat room. Ed Grisamore has already begun to line up speakers and sponsors for next year’s 2012 conference…
You, the Columnist By Dave Lieber Fort Worth Star-Telegram Columnist www.YankeeCowboy.com Years ago, in this space, I wrote a piece wondering what the 21st century columnist would be like. Of course, I got it wrong. I didn’t understand how social media, not yet invented, would change what we do. I didn’t realize that the 21st…
Erika D. Smith recently became The Indianapolis Star’s new metro columnist. She has been a been a tech columnist, business reporter, metro reporter and wannabe videographer at The Star since 2005. Although she was not born in Indiana, she considers it her home. “I so strongly want Indianapolis to become the best city that it…
Clyde Haberman of the New York Times has written what he calls his “Thirty Column,” so called for his college days when graduating editors were given 30 column inches to write their final column. Haberman did not say why his popular column “NYC” was being discontinued after 16 years. “Decisions were made. Let’s leave it…
NSNC member Judith Marks-White of Westport, Conn., reports that she has received two awards in the 2011 Connecticut Press Club Communicatins Contest for her column, “The Light Touch”, which has appeared weekly in the Westport News for the past 26 years. She was awarded first plce for humorous columns “I am a Creamsicle” and “Resting…
