NSNC is pleased to announce the winners and finalists of the 2024 Annual Columnist Contest. Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rsKFedu_jH5tYw6_hN1pRltusDBuJ2sX7QIv4hhGp1E/edit?usp=sharing
Hope your New Year is off to an amazing start. We are excited for What’s in-store for NSNC members this year. We will also be launching our annual contest in January, so you’ll want to be sure your membership is up-to-date. Also, if you have ideas, suggestions, etc., please share with our president, Lori Duff, at lori@loriduffwrites.com or myself at nsncdirector@gmail.com Blessings to all!
By Cappy Hall Rearick, NSNC Member On the eleventh morning of this month, we Americans will turn off our alarm clocks, get out of bed, put on the coffee, do our morning rituals and at some point perhaps glance at a calendar. That is when we will remember exactly where we were when we learned…
Award-winning Westport (CT) News columnist Judith Marks-White is the recipient of a 2010 Connecticut Press Club Humorous Article award for “The Light Touch” columns. She said she considers this award special because it emphasizes her love of the satirical essay. Marks-White has been writing her weekly column for the past 25 years. She also freelances…
Effectively immediately, our telephone number and fax number have changed. Our new telephone number is (415) 488-NSNC and our fax number is (484) 297-0336. Please make a note of the new numbers. The free telephone service is from Google (iVoice). When someone calls, the phone will ring to NSNC Director, Leunna Kim. If she…
By Brian O’Connor 2011 Conference Chair Now that we’ve selected Detroit to host the 2011 conference*, Motown is preparing a selection of its greatest hits. While dates haven’t been set and all plans are subject to change (your mileage may vary, as the Big Three say), the city that put the world on…
Snyder’s Block by Laura Snyder I have seen the future, people, and the future is the iPad. The iPad is an understated piece of technology that will derail any thoughts you may have had that newspapers will continue in dead tree form. I know all the arguments. Some of them I made myself. The one…
Humorist Rick Horowitz explains (more or less) how Terrorist Muslim Chickens are contaminating our egg supply at Ground Zero — not to even mention our nightly television news programs.
CONTACT: Ginny McCabe Executive Director, NSNC NSNCdirector@gmail.com For Immediate Release National Society of Newspaper Columnists Announces Elected Officers The National Society of Newspaper Columnists (NSNC) recently elected its Board of Directors. Members voted on the positions via an online ballot. The NSNC Board of Directors is pleased to present the following officers: President: Meredith Cummings…
Join or Renew Your NSNC Membership Online Whether you write for newspapers, magazines, newsletters, trade journals or you create a podcast or write digital content, or you manage your own blog … whether you’re on staff, a freelancer, syndicated, self-syndicated or independent, if you write opinion or provide commentary, we invite you to join the…
NSNC is pleased to announce the winners and finalists of the 2024 Annual Columnist Contest. Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1rsKFedu_jH5tYw6_hN1pRltusDBuJ2sX7QIv4hhGp1E/edit?usp=sharing 2024 NSNC Columnist Contest Winners (for work done in 2023) Social Justice 3rd Naomi Ishisaka, The Seattle Times 2nd Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY 1st Amelia Robinson, Columbus Dispatch Crisis Commentary Honorable…
Congratulations to NSNC member Mary C. Curtis who contributed an essay in a just released book of essays: “We Refuse to Be Silent: Women’s Voices on Justice for Black Men,” along with other notable women such as Isabel Wilkerson, Donna Brazile, Michelle Duster and Darnella Frazier (a citizen journalist who recorded the George Floyd murder). For more about…
Dave Astor’s third book — “Misty the Cat…Unleashed” — has just been published. It includes several mentions of the NSNC, for which Dave was a board member from 2009 to 2023 and he remains copy editor of the NSNC newsletter. In Dave’s part-factual/part-fictional book, the asthmatic Misty slips his harness during one of his daily leashed walks…
