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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Columnists select Dave Barry for Lifetime Achievement Award
Dave Barry. Photo by daniel portnoy www.danielportnoy.com MACON, Ga. — Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist Dave Barry will be honored with the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. The announcement was made Thursday night, May 3, in Macon, Ga., at the top of the society’s 2012 national conference, where New York…
Columnist David Broder dead at 81
David Broder, Pulitzer-Prize winning Washington Post columnist, died Wednesday, March 9th, of complications from diabetes. Broder received the Ernie Pyle Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists . Broder was one of the most respected political commentators of his generation. His column on politics appeared on the op-ed pages of dozens of…
Views on Writing Contests
A Way to Build Name Recognition By Monica McCabe Cardoza Entering a contest says a lot about your devotion to your craft. It proves that you take column writing seriously enough to want to be recognized for it. But before you say, “Oh, I never win those things,” consider this: Winning a top prize…
On Art Buchwald… – Mike Argento
COLUMNIST ENJOYS A CELESTIAL STOGIE By Mike Argento, NSNC President (This first appeared in the York Daily Record January 22, 2007) Jan 22, 2007 – Art Buchwald appears at the Pearly Gates and is told by St. Peter to take a seat. “Mr. Buchwald, it’s about time you got here.” “Call me Art, please.”…