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  • Small nations need help

    Published Friday, September 28, 2012

    By Lois Kazakoff In a world where giant nations -- Brazil, Russia, India China -- dominate the rising socio-economic headlines, Tim Cullen is worrying about the mini nations -- remote Pacific islands, impoverished Atlantic nations, tiny sovereign countries. The total population of one quarter of the 58 smallest countries combined is smaller than the

  • Partisanship destroying Congress

    Published Thursday, September 27, 2012

    By Christian Trejbal Keynote speaker Mickey Edwards, a former Republican representative from Oklahoma and author of “The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans,” capped a successful 2012 AOJ convention. Edwards teased out a distinction that underlies the current political dysfunction in Washington. “Polarization is

  • Awards highlights at AOJ 2012

    Published Wednesday, September 26, 2012

    Recognition of the achievements of outstanding journalists and journalism educators is one headlne activity at the Association of Opinion Journalists annual convention. In 2012, AOJ awarded: Eugene C. Pulliam Award to Sandra Shea of the Philadelphia Daily News. She will receive $75,000 to study poverty in America, a project that comes as tolerance for the

  • Hiroshima survivor stuns writers

    Published Tuesday, September 25, 2012

    By Amitabh Pal Every once in a while you hear a speech that completely blows you away. My colleagues and I experienced that feeling on Sept. 21 at the AOJ conference in Orlando. The speaker was Koko Kondo, a Hiroshima survivor. Kondo was all of eight months old when the United States dropped the atomic bomb on her hometown on August 6, 1945. Her father was

  • Everglades irrevocably spoiled?

    Published Monday, September 24, 2012

    How did the once "utterly worthless" River of Grass become an agricultural bounty, urbanized sprawl, national park, target of humans' "war on nature" – and our chance to deserve "to keep the planet"? By Bill McGoun The Florida Everglades got a great hour of attention at the AOJ convention. Michael Grunwald of Time magazine gave a concise and thorough

  • 4 big economies a mixed bag

    Published Saturday, September 22, 2012

    By Bill McGoun All of the BRIC nations -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- are growing their economies with a greater government role than in the U.S., but China is doing it on steroids. At the same time, problems are developing in each of the four. Those were the conclusions of four panelists discussing “Rising Powers: Challenges and Opportunities for

  • U.S. diplomacy challenged

    Published Friday, September 21, 2012

    By Tom Waseleski U.S. diplomacy faces unusually challenging situations with Syria and Iran, said three panelists with foreign experience in a conference session titled "War, Diplomacy and U.S. Interests." Ambassador Gary Grappo, who headed the embassy in Oman and is now president and CEO of the Keystone Center, told AOJ members that the fighting in Syria

  • Interaction gets upbeat views

    Published Friday, September 21, 2012

    By Frank Partsch The future of opinion journalism will bring more efforts to engage the reader, providing interactive contacts and competing effectively for the public’s attention. These were among the predictions of a panel during a Sept. 21 session of the AOJ convention. Panel member Mike Lafferty pointed to his job title to illustrate an evolution in