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.
Q&A With Michael Paul Williams, NSNC Award Recipient and Now a Pulitzer Winner!
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Getting the Full Story in the Age of Media Mistrust with Julian Rubinstein and Terrance Roberts
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Thursday, June 3, 2021 7:30 PM Eastern Time/ 5:30 PM Mountain Time FREE! Register HERE Stories cannot be written from press releases and political soundbites alone. Julian Rubinstein’s new book The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood details the intricacies and contradictions that exist between law enforcement and…
The Art of the Interview
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In the pandemic, journalists are doing a lot of “Zooming” and are expected to do more live interviews. As journalists, we’re used to conducting interviews for crafting articles that quote and otherwise glean from conversations. In Zoom webinars and other live programs, an interview looks very different. There’s no going back later to cobble quotes…
Write to Unite
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Register now $25 for NSNC Members. Register Here – Login to access your discount. $45 if you are Not a Member of the NSNC. Register Here (SPJ members Use CINCYSPJ Coupon Code Here for discounted rate) Not a Member? Join Now! Together in partnership with the Cincinnati chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the NSNC presents Write…
Members Only Content: Mac Shines the Spotlight
Eileen McNamara, a columnist at the Globe, helped set the wheels of Spotlight’s investigation in motion through July 2001 columns she wrote about the trial of the Rev. John Geoghan, a confessed serial pedophile
Members Only Event: Press Flix Movie Night
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NSNC is always looking for new ways to help its members connect with fellow scribes. With this in mind, we’re happy to introduce Press Flix! Using Netflix, we’re able to create a virtual movie party. Every month, we’ll screen a different journo-centric movie that reinforces the vital role the Fourth Estate plays within society. We’ll…
We’re In Big Trouble
By Dave Lieber Dallas Morning News columnist Now for the first time, I really feel it. I can touch it. It’s happening all around. The death of a competent, successful free press. The spiral downward for newspapers and TV news. We are going down and going down fast. It’s a combination: the smartphone, our own…
The Columnist’s Role Today
Columnists Talk Shop By Bonnie Jean Feldkamp Director of Media We’re talking to columnists about what it means to be an opinion writer in today’s market. This is the first article in the series. No matter which political camp you stood in this past year you were bound to take a hit on your stance.…
FAKE NEWS = EYEBALLS = $$$
by Suzette Suzette Martinez Standring NSNC Past President Do I have to “Snopes” every shocking headline nowadays? For readers many fake news sites look legit, just like those taken down by Google:baltimoregazette.com, denverguardian.com, as well as parasitic domain-named sites such as USAToday.com.co and WashingtonPost.com.co However, news hoaxes will reappear in other forms fueled by ad networks…
So You Want to be a Journalist
Funny but sad animated cartoon on the state of the journalism biz… Created By BrooklynLee – Dec. 12, 2010 -http://www.xtranormal.com/ Via Muck Rack Daily http://muckrack.com/
Thirty years in journalism
Lindor Reynolds, Winnipeg Free Press, celebrates 30 years in journalism this week. In her column, Lindor says, “We get into this business for a variety of reasons. It’s exciting. You meet new people every day. You might get lucky and make a difference, move a reader or change a policy.” She talks about the dreams,…