Okay, well you don’t actually get a chicken dinner, but you do get some bragging rights. Here’s a breakdown of all our amazing winners in the 2022 Columnist Contest (for works created in 2021): Editorial Cartoon First Place – Sage Stossel, The Boston Globe Social Justice First Place – John W. Fountain, Chicago Sun-TimesSecond Place…
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Mary C. Curtis to Join the NSNC’s List of Lifetime Luminaries
The winner of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ 2022 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award is…Mary C. Curtis.
NSNC’s Early Webmaster Passes Away
Jim Boughton, who ran columnists.com for many years, died July 5. He was 75.
The Heart and Art Expands
During her writing days, Mom won NSNC awards twice, at least, for her much-loved, long-running humor column “Coffee Break” which appeared weekly in the Maine Sunday Telegram.
Q&A With Michael Paul Williams, NSNC Award Recipient and Now a Pulitzer Winner!
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.
National Society of Newspaper Columnists Announces 2021 Contest Winners
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Headline: National Society of Newspaper Columnists Announces 2021 Contest Winners Contact: NSNC Media Director Bonnie Jean Feldkamp, Media@columnists.com Columnists throughout the nation helped guide our communities through the pandemic. From making sense of fraught politics to highlighting unique community circumstances or even allowing a place for laughter, words helped keep…
And the 2021 Winners Are…
Below you’ll not only find the winners but the winner’s winning columns.
Introducing Our New Executive Director
By Cassie McClureNSNC Executive Director You can blame bad salsa. I do. That’s how my column-writing history started. I had already been doing food reviews steadily for a few years when a perturbed restaurant owner came into the newsroom to complain about my commentary on his watery salsa. Unfortunately for him, I was, and am,…
Join Me in the Zoom Where It Happens
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…
Tony Messenger: How One Story Snowballed into a Series That Changed Missouri Law
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…
The Depressing Sprint to Jettison Print
Early in the morning of Feb. 26, the last edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that would ever be printed on a Friday landed on stoops, porches, sidewalks, lawns, and hedges with the indifference most of us had grown used to over the years.
Libel and Slander, and Some Wisdom to Tell the Difference
As columnists, we tend to write about people, and there is danger in that. We fear defamation suits.
Column Writing Is Your Superpower to Enact Change in Your Community
By NSNC President Tony Norman and NSNC Communications Director Bonnie Jean Feldkamp Columns, as opposed to explanatory news stories, are uniquely positioned in the journalistic ecosystem to get things done. Unlike our just-the-facts reporter counterparts, we columnists get to directly call out our elected officials and community leaders, hold them to account, and ask for…
An Inspiring NSNC Webinar Is In the Books
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…
George Will Presented With the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award
George Will Presented With the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award Legendary conservative columnist George Will received the 2020 Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists during an online ceremony December 3. Mr. Will’s acceptance speech touched on the importance of being honored with an award bearing the memory and legacy…
George Will: Questions and Answers
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.…
The New Normal Now Goes Far Beyond the Final Score
Little did sportswriters and columnists Clarence E. Hill, Jr. and Marcus Thompson II know that covering Super Bowl LIII in Miami might be the last major sporting event they cover in-person in 2020.