The Pittsburgh convention is better than we thought: new and
improved!(National Conference of Editorial Writers)
A funny thing happened on the way through the spring board meeting.
NCEW leaders decided to shake a few things up for the Pittsburgh
convention.
No problem for me--I've ripped up a convention . . .
Proposed changes to NCEW bylaws.(CONVENTION 2006)(National
Conference of Editorial Writers)
In meetings in December and April, the NCEW board discussed and
prepared changes to the organization's bylaws that it plans to put
to a vote at the 2006 convention in Pittsburgh. Below is the . . .
Candidate slates ready for 2006 elections.(National Conference of
Editorial Writers)
Candidates for secretary
Becca Rothschild
Say NCEW and I think of two things: The places it's taken me
and the people it's introduced me to.
I've sat in a palace in Saudi Arabia and stood on . . .
NCEW's first online member finds news where women are.(Rita
Henley Jensen, National Conference of Editorial Writers)
Rita Henley Jensen looks up from the corner desk in her tight
Manhattan office. She peers fight to take a question about fundraising
from her business assistant, then pivots left to impart some . . .
About the Gulf Coast tour.
It all started with e-mail exchange with New Orleans limes-Picayune
editorial page editor Terri Troncale. I asked her before last
year's convention, "If there's one thing you could say to
the . . .
The land of "accounts inconceivable": NCEW members get
an up-close look at Katrina's devastation.(National Conference of
Editori
Among the vast piles of debris from Hurricane Katrina still waiting
to be collected in New Orleans, there's a small, recent addition: a
half-filled reporters notebook. It flew out my hands as I . . .
Get interested in the world, and don't let the story get
away.(SYMPOSIUM: Editorializing on international issues)
Everything about him made it clear this guy was an Alabama native:
the Pro Bass fisherman cap; the blue jeans worn thin by hard work, not
by fashion styles; the pickup truck keys on the desk; the . . .
Local news coverage isn't our future ... it's our
present.(SYMPOSIUM: Editorializing on international issues)
Local news media used to have a stranglehold on local opinion.
If people wanted to get their views to a mass audience, they'd
write letters to the editor. To this day, local letters remain one . . .
International vigilance mandatory.(SYMPOSIUM: Editorializing on
international issues)
Look in the dictionary for a definition of melting pot, and it
ought to say "see Toledo? Like many mid-sized cities in
America's heartland, Toledo is a diverse mix of old-world cultures
and . . .
Covering Islam begins on op-ed page.(SYMPOSIUM: Editorializing on
international issues)
I think it's time our op-ed pages be a bit more hospitable to
Muslim perspectives on Muslim issues. The news and editorial pages will,
I hope, follow suit.
I attended several seminars on Iraq in . . .
Don't waste the privilege.(SYMPOSIUM: Editorializing on
international issues)
Don't you just hate it when you're in a rush, stop to ask
for directions, and the guy rattles on about road construction in a
county where you won't even be driving?
That's the scenario facing . . .
What NCEW members said.(MASTHEAD SYMPOSIUM)(National Conference
of Editorial Writers)(Brief article)
DOUG FIRBY, Calgary Herald: Any of y'all paying attention to
the watershed Canadian election on Monday? Any position on it?
MIKE VOGEL, The Buffalo News: We're a border city, but we have
only a . . .
World issues in our own backyards.(MASTHEAD SYMPOSIUM)
On the streets of Dothan, a city of about sixty thousand in
southeast Alabama, I occasionally encounter readers who ask what I find
to be a curious question:
"Why is there so much filler in the . . .
Sure, "local sells" remains the mantra, but what's
local anymore?(MASTHEAD SYMPOSIUM)
The story was tucked away in a two-inch hole above a stack of ads
in the back of A-section, its placement offering no clue to its
significance.
"Russia, China unite to slam U.S." said . . .
News may still be new, but nothing is
"foreign".(Editorial)
I still have not yet seen. The Red Green Show.
As members who read NCEW'S valuable e-marl listserv may
recall, Red Green is a Canadian-produced TV comedy. I hear it's
your basic laff-riot, . . .
Milestones, awards, educational opportunities.(MEMBER NEWS)(Brief
Article)
* NCEW member Nick Anderson of The Courier-Journal in Louisville,
Kentucky, won the 2005 Pulitzer prize for Editorial Cartooning.
* The American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) has selected . . .
Norman A. Lockman, Pulitzer-winning journalist and
pioneer.(MEMBER NEWS)
Norman A. Lockman, Pulitzer-winning journalist at The Boston Globe
and former managing editor at the Wilmington News Journal in Delaware,
passed away in April following a lengthy fight against Lou . . .
Members examine the state of State.(PRESIDENT'S LETTER:
Straight talk from Kay Semion)(National Conference of Editorial
Writers)
Waiting for no introduction, Condoleezza Rice approached the
double-door entrance to Room 1107 in the State Department building with
a smiling, "Hello everyone." With aides on her left and . . .
Innovation trailhead.(Alabama-Georgia bike trail)(Brief
Article)
All that is keeping a bike trail in Anniston, Alabama, from
connecting to one in Georgia is the completion of a bridge in a
neighboring county. If the county commission were to spend a little
cash, . . .
Creativity a matter of survival.(editorials)
Your pages are boring.
The good news is that if you don't change, you won't be
bored producing or proofing the pages.
The bad news is there probably isn't a large job market for
editors of . . .
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