Russell Frank, NSNC Education Chair and Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State University, announced the winners of the 2010 NSNC Scholarship Contest today. Frank said, “There were 110 entries this year, a very pleasing number…” Preliminary judge, Ben Pollock, NSNC Vice President noted, “Judging the students was hard this year: No bad columnists in…
Debt-it cards By Braden Katz, University Daily Kansan bkatz@kansan.com Last month, the debit receipt for my lunch at the Underground was identical to all the others in the stack next to the cash register. Although my purchase appeared to be normal, I had unknowingly participated in a complicated small loan for my lunch that day. My…
Someone very special to National Society of Newspaper Columnists is celebrating his 80th birthday this week – Robert Haught. He has had an impressive career as columnist, journalist, correspondent, and political aide. His accomplishments are numerous, yet he remains unassuming and is a dedicated supporter of NSNC. In spite of his retirement from work and writing…
Pete Hamill, well known journalist and author, received an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from St. John’s University. Hamill is best known to members of the National Society of Newspaper columnists as the winner of the NSNC Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, which was presented at the annual conference in Grapevine, Texas. Hamill…
National Society of Newspaper Columnists Education Foundation Secretary, Dave Lieber, reports that the very first winner of our Student Scholarship Contest has just become a national media news anchor. An article on the Nola.com website this morning reported that Rob Nelson, formerly a reporter at the New Orleans Times-Picayune for 7 years, has accepted a…
NSNC sometimes receives inquires from aspiring columnists about how to be a columnist. This answer covers it for almost anyone interested. ——EMAIL—– From: Jameson Date: May 6, 2010 8:06 AM Subject: Becoming a Columnist To: director@columnists.com [This mail was sent via contact form on columnists.com https://www.columnists.com] Message Body: My name is Jameson. I am a…
Dave Barry, a Pulitzer Prize winner for his humor column at the Miami Herald, and a featured guest speaker at the NSNC Conference in Philadelphia in 2007, is still at it and apparently, as funny as ever. He recently did an interview with Bryan Curtis, senior editor, at The Daily Beast. Dave’s latest book is…
A nominating committee appointed by the president has submitted a list of proposed candidates for offices as required by the NSNC Bylaws. This slate of nominees will be presented at the conference with the election scheduled for Sunday, July 11, at the general membership meeting . Here’s the suggested slate from our fantastic nominating committee:…
By Rima Tessman http://rimarama.blogspot.com At a writers’ workshop I attended in April, there was one session advertised in the brochure as an opportunity to mine one’s subconscious mind for writing material using relaxation techniques and guided imagery. That’s code for “hypnosis” if I ever saw it, so naturally I signed myself right up. If there’s…
Dave Lieber, whose Summer Santa charity helped him win the 2002 Will Rogers Humanitarian Award, reports the organization recently raised $5,000 at a pancake breakfast. Lieber, “Watchdog” columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, adds: “We got tied into a TV pilot project with Pat Summerall (a longtime SS donor)…” Summerall, a former football…
A Humorous Look at Asian Culture for Asian Heritage Month SAN DIEGO, Calif. – In light of Asian Heritage Month in May, nationally syndicated humor columnist Wayne Chan has released The Problem With Being Perfect: From The United Federation of Asian Perfect-ness (published by AuthorHouse). This book is a collection of popular columns Chan has…
Tell Your Pooch About Bruce Cameron’s Latest Promotion Best-selling author W. Bruce Cameron has switched from writing about his daughters and has gone to the dogs. And he’s come up with a novel idea to promote his new novel, “A Dog’s Purpose.” Here’s his pitch: “If you like dogs, I have something really fun…
By Kevin Duvall, Student Columnist, The Daily Athenaeum West Virginia University official student newspaper This will probably be the last column I ever write for The Daily Athenaeum, as I am graduating this summer and am uncertain of where or when I will attend graduate school. Since I’m a Monday regular, I had the last…
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of writing a column for the Belleville, Ill. News-Democrat, Wally Spiers interviewed himself on video for the newspaper’s website. “Silly, but fun,” he said. * * * So… we were wondering… what other great events happened 20 years ago? The first McDonald’s opened in Moscow, Russia Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner…
By Trisha Blanchet The Sun, Lowell, Mass. Writing a column is a lot like slapping a bumper sticker onto your car. You feel strongly about something, stick it up there for the world to see, and then forget about it. But you never know what that guy behind you is thinking as he drives along.…
By Laura Snyder Nationally Syndicated Columnist Our new Vice President, Ben Pollock, was the brains and momentum behind our membership poll this winter. The results that came in from 183 respondents were actually very surprising to the board and served as a wake-up call. As it turns out, we had been operating on…
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