FREE event but registration required HERE. Rochelle Riley ended a nearly 20-year career as a nationally syndicated, award-winning Detroit columnist in 2019 to become the City of Detroit’s Director of Arts and Culture. In that role, she guides the city’s investment in the arts and creates opportunities for transformative innovation. Her most recent project was…
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…
David Maraniss – the two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner and award-winning biographer talked to NSNC Communications Director Bonnie Jean Feldkamp about his writing process.
Register now! For the NSNC Member Rate of $150 CLICK HERE For the Non-member Rate of $225 that includes a one-year membership to the NSNC. CLICK HERE Details below and on the Conference Page HERE. The conference will be a live Zoom, but all programs (except the breakout sessions) will be recorded and can be watched…
What makes a good book review column? How are books selected for review? Join Tony Norman NSNC President and Book Review Editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as he discusses the answers to these questions and more with Pamela Paul the editor of the Book Review and who oversees all books coverage at The New York…
Learn to write with emotion that resonates. Amy Newmark, Editor-in-Chief of the Chicken Soup for the Soul (CSS) book series, will guide you with tips on how to deliver short-form writing that strikes a chord.
DEAR ALEX, My editor wants me to trim my weekly column word maximum from 650 down to 500. I also run a photo I have taken which sometimes doesn’t get used, except on their website. As a freelancer I have little input on decisions so should I just accept the new number? — MAN OF…
Don Fry spoke to our National Society of Newspaper Columnists last June. You may remember his striking common sense and optimism about writing. He has just published a book entitled “Writing Your Way, Creating Your own Writing Process that Works for You” (Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest, 2012). The book is available from local bookstores and from Amazon…
By Suzette Martinez Standring NSNC Past President The best storytellers are like keen-nosed truffle dogs, looking for riches below the surface. It’s what columnists do most days under deadline, usually in 750 words or less. Other writers have a lot more space. Recently, I went to see The New York Times best-selling…
Where’s the Sin in Synchronicity? By Ben S. Pollock NSNC President “How can there be any sin in sincere? “Where is the good in goodbye?” — “Sincere” by Meredith Willson in The Music Man It may be yet another way of stalling the labor of writing, but I’m inspired when I chance upon quotes from…
By Suzette Martinez Standring NSNC Past President “Give a little to get a lot.” I never forgot this memorable advice from Mary McCarty of the Dayton Daily News, who has won awards for unique insights often revealed in the telling details about, and the quotations from, the people featured in her columns. I work at…
