Making the big change in media work to your advantage: local
editorial writers and editors will continue to be a--if not the--mo
Local newspaper and television editorial opinion is in crisis.
That's the first thing I learned from your NCEW board at its
meeting in April. Board members see the present as a time of . . .
The first-ever interactive 'Masthead' ... on paper, no
less! This has to be a first.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
Looking back over the previous seven issues of The Masthead that I
have edited, I see a pretty clear theme emerging from many of them.
It's all about change.
We're at it again here. In this . . .
Members Dick Hughes of the Statesman Journal of Salem, Oregon,
and Bill Parkinson from the York Dispatch in Pennsylvania both re
Members Dick Hughes of the Statesman Journal of Salem, Oregon, and
Bill Parkinson from the York Dispatch in Pennsylvania both received
special citations for education reporting from the Education . . .
The Society of Professional Journalists is now accepting
applications for the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial
Writing
The Society of Professional Journalists is now accepting
applications for the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing.
Deadline is July 1. For details, visit spj.org/ . . .
The late William E. Rone.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, milestones,
awards)(inducted into South Carolina Press Association)(Brief
a
The late William E. Rone, onetime editorial page editor The State
in Columbia, South Carolina, and longtime member of NCEW, was
posthumously inducted into the South Carolina Press . . .
John Penney.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, milestones, awards)(award
by Poughkeepsie Journal)(Brief article)
John Penney, opinion page editor of the Gannett-owned Poughkeepsie
Journal, was judged to have the best editorials among all non-metro
Gannett papers. In addition, John was awarded the . . .
Maura Casey.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, milestones, awards)(The
New York Times appoints Maura Casey at the editorial board )(Bri
After nearly eighteen years with The Day of New London,
Connecticut, NCEW member and associate editorial page editor Maura Casey
has moved to the editorial board of The New York Times. Maura . . .
It's nice when your colleagues do well.(MEMBER NEWS:
Remembrances, milestones, awards)(Rick Attig of National Conference of
Edit
It's nice when your colleagues do well. It is especially nice
when they do this well: NCEW member Rick Attig and former member Doug
Bates, editorialists for The Oregonian, won the 2006 Pulitzer . . .
New NCEW adapts to fast-changing world of opinion
writing.(National Conference of Editorial Writers)
Let it not be said that the NCEW board turns a tin ear to the
concerns and desires of the organization's membership.
For the past two years, the board has invited members to
participate in online . . .
Journalists who helped make NCEW the organization it is
today.(National Conference of Editorial Writers)
NCEW is the organization that it is today in large part through the
efforts of life members Ann Lloyd Merriman and Robert T. (Bob) Barnard,
both of whom had an unmatched devotion to our craft and . . .
The best way to predict the future of commentary? Invent
it!(SPECIAL REPORT: Strategic Planning)
For the past six years, NCEW officers and board members have been
engaged in planning the future of this organization.
Since April 2000 in Seattle, one day has been set aside at each
spring board . . .
Readers go wild to vote bloggers off "the island".(SHOP
TALK: Innovations)
Want to attract readers? Why not mimic the successful formula of
Reality TV?
Inspired by Internet guru Rob Curley's "Survivor: Topeka
City Council," which asked Web users to "vote off" . . .
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 . . .
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