Suzette Standring writes to us: “I’ll be on The Bella Petite Radio Show to talk about my book-in-progress, The Height of Power: Petite Women Speak of Stature. Navigating the world at armpit level (women who are 5¹3 and under) has its unique viewpoints -comical, eye opening and always insightful. Tune in LIVE on Tuesday, November…
NSNC member Adam McCune, who writes a weekly column for the New Hampshire Union Leader, has a new book out. Funny Man Down is a selection of “McCune’s Manchester” columns. www.funnymandown.com McCune, who won second place in the NSNC column writing contest in 2009 (general interest 100,000 and up), also writes freelance articles…
Who says you can’t sing about the Federal Reserve? Rick’s up to the challenge!
Barry Schrader returned to his roots in DeKalb County four years ago after being away in California for 37 years. A lifelong journalist, he convinced the Daily Chronicle to let him write a weekly column called DeKalb County Life. After three years of writing about people, places and events in “corn country” as he fondly…
Cow Crashed into the Moon is the interesting title of a new book by Trisha Blanchet. “You are not the worst mother in the world!” But don’t worry, you’ll get there,” says Trisha. And her new book can lead the way. Moms don’t need advice. (We already get plenty of that.) We also don’t need “mommy…
Hamilton Nolan has penned an excellent article on Gawker in response to the recent well-reported incident of a TV journalist who made unrevealed political donations. Nolan offers defining guidelines for journalistic ethics. A few of the points he covered are: Disclosure – Let your readers know where you’re coming from, so they can make informed judgments about…
NSNC member Jim Higley, Boblehead Dad, wrote to let us know that he has just won a national competition for dad bloggers. Sponsored by a new men’s online magazine, www.manofthehouse.com, he won Grand Prize in their “World’s Greatest Dad” Challenge. The competition included an essay and a video submission. “After three weeks of public voting and final judging…
Karen Rinehart’s newspaper column has run on CatholicExchange.com’s Humor Channel for years. In addition to the column, she has been invited to write a blog for a revamped website. “Naturally I linked the NSNC in my new tagline,” she said http://catholicexchange.com/author/karen-rinehart/ Starting in January, Rinehart – who lives in the Charlotte, N.C. area…
Pete Hamill’s “They Are Us,” an e-book about the politics of immigration in the United States, was tentatively scheduled for release by Little, Brown & Company this fall. According to the New York Post, however, Hamill has dropped the project. Pete Hamill started his career at the New York Post in 1960. He has been a…
U.S. News &World Report reports that the December issue will be the last printed monthly for subscribers. They plan to transition to a predominantly digital publishing model. U.S. News claims to be a leading innovator in adapting to the changing environment in the newspaper world — and “we don’t intend to give up that lead.”…
Keith Olbermann, the liberal host of “Countdown” on MSNBC, was recently suspended indefinitely without pay for making political donations to three Democrats. The network policy prohibits such contributions. Most journalistic outfits discourage or outright prohibit campaign contributions by employees. According to MSNBC policy, “Anyone working for NBC News who takes part in civic or other…
As reported by Romenesko in Poynter online, Stu Bykofsky, Philadelphia Daily News, decided to check out Fox News and MSNBC to test whether the point of view presented is fair and balanced or as one-sided as it is often said to be. For a week, the columnist recorded and watched two television shows that…
Dave shares his unique point-of-view at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade by Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Dave Lieber and producer Chris Gomersall/Upstairs Media.
Ed Grisamore, the recipient of the 2010 Will Rogers Humanitarian Award, recently completed a writing project that was completely different. He wrote the script for a musical called “Durworld: The Life and Times of Mr. Doubletalk.” It was performed by the Youth Actors Company at Theatre Macon on Nov. 6-14. In addition to writing the…
Should U.S. government funds continue to help fund NPR, a non-profit radio service? An October 2010 Poll Position nationwide survey found that 45 percent of Americans favor continuing government funding for NPR while 39 percent called for a halt to funding. Partisan differences were found among those who favor the funding versus those who did…
Former President of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, Samantha Bennett, is one of several tour guides who will be telling scary ghost stories during walking tours of Pittsburgh this October. Sponsors believe it is a nice way to tell Pittsburgh history and ghost stories at the same time. After taking a buyout at the…
NSNC member Kelly Epperson likes to spread the joy. The Loves Park, Ill., writer and speaker, author of 365 Days of Joy – How To Be Happy Every Single Day, also enjoys dancing, so she extended an invitation to a “Joy Dance Party” Friday, October 1, in Rockford, Ill., to help celebrate her birthday and raise money for…
