Foundation faces raising money, reconnecting with NCEW.(NCEW
FOUNDATION)(National Conference of Editorial Writers)
Asking people for money isn't something that comes naturally
to those of us in the opinion and news business. But there we were in
Kansas City on a Friday morning in April "dialing for dollars"
The . . .
Profiles of 2007 candidates.(CONVENTION 2007)(National Conference
of Editorial Writers)(Conference notes)
Candidates for secretary
Dan Radmacher
The next four to five years will be crucial ones in the history
both of opinion writing and NCEW. I can't think of a more exciting
time to be considered . . .
Milking your membership.(CONVENTION 2007)(National Conference of
Editorial Writers)(Editorial)
One of the first things my boss told me when he handed me the keys
to the Wausau Daily Herald's opinion page was that I never should
be too proud to swipe a good idea.
He was right. As others . . .
Kansas City convention pays dividends for you and your boss:
digital production, reuniting America.(CONVENTION 2007)(National
Co
Its hot. News is slow. Your budget's in a vise. What to do?
Convince your publisher/ editor/self that the time is right to invest in
your future.
How?
The Web is our future. Opinion drives the . . .
Mild media: journalism groups should speak up about
trends.(Editorial)
When Jay Harris quit in 2001 as publisher of the San Jose Mercury
News rather than make cuts he believed would harm the paper, he was
invited to speak to the annual meeting of the American Society . . .
State Department briefing offers insights not only about
policy.(Editorial)
When attending a high-level briefing with government officials, one
expects a fair serving of boilerplate ... along with decent helpings of
party line and bureaucratese. What is consistently . . .
... Or not 'I couldn't have said it better
myself'.(Op-ed authorship: Astroturf or idea
crafting?)(Editorial)
While it may feel good to add the identities of public relations
offices to an op-ed's authorship, ultimately it doesn't do
much good to help readers understand the topic.
Many of us on the . . .
To require authentic authorship ... so, Senator, is it true that
you yourself butchered this metaphor?(Op-ed authorship: Astrotu
Something revolutionary has happened on the opinion pages of The
Spokesman-Review this year.
The first instance was on February 6, when a guest opinion
promoting children's health care ran under . . .
Dispute resolution through community conversation: a newspaper
partners with an agency to bridge policy chasms.(Editorial)
Folks in the cluster of towns that compose the Tri-Cities are
talking about consolidating local governments to form a single city. The
move would transform our disjointed community into . . .
Internet readers will support high standards: lead by offering
quality.(SYMPOSIUM: Adapting old rules to the online
world)(Edito
We've all seen those shows on the Discovery Channel where the
seal escapes a killer whale by leaping to the perceived safety of an ice
floe.
Then a bunch of other killer whales join in and start . . .
Edit pages must adapt or risk alienation of readers: embracing
the great equalizer.(SYMPOSIUM: Adapting old rules to the online
In hindsight, we'd be a lot better off if we--journalists--had
invented the World Wide Web.
We could have set all the rules, designed it to maximize the
dissemination of news and opinion, and . . .
A marketplace of ideas or 'continuous partial
attention'? Adapting to an online world.(MASTHEAD
SYMPOSIUM)
In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr. famously penned what has
come to be known as the "marketplace of ideas" concept. The
concept, firmly rooted in First Amendment jurisprudence, is based on . . .
Ride the roller-coaster into the future of our
craft.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
Newspapering isn't a dying industry. It is transforming in a
way that is exciting and bruising at the same time.
On the editorial page, are we gatekeepers as we've always
been, moderators as we . . .
Pulliam Fellowship.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, milestones,
awards)
The deadline for the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial
Writing is July 1.
Offered by the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, the Pulliam Fellowship
enables a mid-career editorial writer from a . . .
Early-learning seminar.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, milestones,
awards)(Conference notes)
The Hechinger Institute and NCEW are partnering to offer a
conference highlighting pre-kindergarten and early childhood education
issues.
The conference will be June 29-30 at Teachers College at . . .
Passage.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, milestones, awards)(S. Gordon
Gapper member of National Conference of Editorial Writers, die
S. Gordon Gapper, an NCEW member since 1981, died January 22 in
Banning, California. He was 81.
A native of New Zealand, Gapper worked for thirty-two years at The
Flint Journal in Michigan, after . . .
The Kansas City Star.(Promotions)(Miriam Pepper promoted to vice
president of the editorial page)(Brief article)
Miriam Pepper, The Kansas City Star's editorial page editor,
was promoted to vice president, editorial page.
Pepper, who is NCEW's 2007 convention chair, joined The Star
in 1976 after brief . . .
The Roanake Times.(Promotions)(Dan Radmacher promoted to
editorial page editor)(Brief article)
Dan Radmacher was promoted to editorial page editor of The Roanoke
Times.
NCEW's website editor, Radmacher has served as interim editor
after Tommy Denton retired. He joined the Times in March . . .
A prescription to keep NCEW healthy and enhance its
vitality.(PRESIDENT'S LETTER: Straight talk from Neil
Heinen)(National Confe
This is one Boomer who has come to appreciate the value of an
annual physical, both for the reassurance of major problems fortunately
held at bay, and the reminder of vigilance and never-ending . . .
In memoriam: a tribute to Dave Gillespie.(In memoriam)
Our colleague David Gillespie, who died in Raleigh Sunday, March
26, at 84, was of a remarkable generation of Americans who went off to
fight a war and defeated a monstrous set of enemies. He came . . .
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