Karen J. Rinehart is a Charlotte, NC area syndicated columnist, author and speaker. She has been writing her award-winning column, “True To Life”, (a.k.a. The Bus Stop Mommies), since 2002. It is syndicated by Media General newspapers and a regular feature on CatholicLane.com and CatholicExchange.com. Rinehart is a frequent guest humorist and “mommy expert” on…
The Omaha World-Herald has a new humor-columnist. Actually, he was already writing for the World-Herald as a sports columnist on a free-lance basis. Brad Dickson grew up in Omaha and was even a paperboy for the newspaper at one time in his life. But that was a long time ago, before he made it big…
Michele Kay of the Austin American-Statesman died Feb 16, 2011, after a four-decade career in journalism. She served as the business editor and reporter for the paper, as well as an editorial writer, Washington correspondent, and Texas State Capitol reporter. Political consultant Bill Miller described her as tough as nails, a reporter who didn’t put…
Margaret Caldwell is a columnist for the Desert Valley Times, Mesquite NV, a Gannett, publication. She celebrated her 104th birthday on February 1st and is believed by many to be the world’s oldest living columnist. Often we associate old age with loss of health and vitality, but Margaret says she is feeling well in spite…
you, the columnist My-picture-on-top-of-the-column-syndrome By Dave Lieber Columnists.com The other day I was insecure about something. I got zero comments beneath my column on my newspaper’s website for what I thought was a pretty good column. Then I clicked on the comments for my columnist colleague at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Bob Ray Sanders.…
Ben S. Pollock NSNC President Columnists get labeled as opinionated. This was brought home again after the Tucson shooting. Americans saw on the air and online — come on, paper? — as many pundits as politicians (and rarely people with facts, like FBI spokesmen). The funny thing is, few NSNC members are op-eddies. The society…
In his other life as a journalist, Greg Rummo writes a Sunday column for several newspapers in New Jersey including The Suburban Trends, a newspaper published in his hometown of Butler, NJ by North Jersey Media Group (www.northjersey.com ). Rummo invites you to visit his website; www.gregrummo.com for a sampling of recently published columns and feature articles. He sends out an “html”…
Columnist Stu Bykofsky of the Philadelphia Daily News, despite being quite the extrovert, rarely finds himself a news subject. It’s because he’s first a journalist, although with his in-your-face style, that might seem surprising. This week, however, Bykofsky has landed in the cable yaks war, “yaks” being those chat-show hosts on the 24/7 news/comment channels,…
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…
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…
From the November 2010 issue of the e-Columnist newsletter By Suzette Martinez Standring 2004-05 NSNC Past President As a long time freelance columnist, I used to envy the steady paycheck and job security of my salaried colleagues as I chased after writing gigs and venues. Today, newspapers have decimated their ranks of columnists and reporters,…
President’s Message First published in the November 2010 issue of the e-Columnist By Ben S. Pollock NSNC President “Politics make strange bedfellows” goes the quote by 19th-century newspaperman Charles Dudley Warner, and this fall it’s been columnists getting renown for jumping on the mattress. Columnists, commentators, news analysts, bloggers, interest-group hacks, cable yaks — aren’t…
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…
Award-winning columnist Raymond Reid has co-authored with World War II POW Pete Edris a new book, Dying for Another Day. It’s the true account of Edris, whose B-17 was shot down over occupied France on March 8, 1943. In July 1943, his mother in Long Island, N.Y., received a telegram that Edris had…
The Columbus Dispatch reported late on Oct. 13, 2010, the death of Mike Harden at the age of 64. Details are found in this updated article, written by the NSNC’s Joe Blundo. The obituary has links to several of his columns and a selection of pictures. Mike was one of the earliest members of the…
The National Society of Newspaper Columnists board is looking ahead. While it actively is helping Conference Chair Brian O’Connor plan the 2011 conference in Detroit, on Oct. 13, 2010, it chose Macon, Ga., as the site of its 2012 conference. Columnist Ed Grisamore of the Macon Telegraph will be conference coordinator. The reasons are given gracefully…
you, the columnist By Dave Lieber Fort Worth Star-Telegram Do you have a harder time concentrating these days because of distractions? Does it take a greater effort to make time to read, research, write and get things done? Is keeping to a long-term plan tough in the midst of an over-stimulated day? …
