General

• AOJ websites work in tandem

  Published Friday, July 18, 2014

  AOJ is extending its online presence. This site (http://opinionjournalists.org) continues, with an abundance of material dating to 2009 or even before, some of it obviously outdated and some of it fresh today. The new site (http://aoj.wildapricot.org) is handling membership transactions including event registration. It contains a small but growing amount

• Credible columns on race with 21st century tools

  Published Friday, July 11, 2014

  By Richard Prince These topics were bubbling up early this year when the National Society of Newspaper Columnists was planning its June convention, and resulted in a panel "How to Write Convincingly About Race with 21st Century Technology." 1. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen was being slammed for his views on race, including one column in which

• AOJ members laud John Seigenthaler

  Published Friday, July 11, 2014

  John Seigenthaler, legendary journalist, chairman emeritus of The Tennesseean, first opinion editor of USA Today and a conscience of the Gannett newspapers, founder in 1991 of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University, and staunch supporter of the NCEW-AOJ Minority Writers Seminar, died Friday, July 11, 2014. Praise came rolling in immediately on

• AOJ website will change

  Published Thursday, July 10, 2014

  As a natural result of AOJ's change of association management services, we are well along with preparations to extensively refresh our Web presence. This is a protracted process, because all the work is being done by volunteers and one staff person, each of whom has many other responsibilities. Registration for the 2014 AOJ Symposium, the more educational

• Jobs DO exist!

  Published Thursday, May 1, 2014

  One benefit of AOJ membership is access to job-opening announcements specific to professional opinion journalism on plural platforms. Often they turn up instantly on the members' online discussion list. They can be posted in a members-only Job Bank service on our website. While the site management is in transition, we might put short versions here.

• AOJ and Foundation moving management

  Published Monday, April 28, 2014

  AOJ and the AOJ Foundation will have new management services in May 2014. See the Masthead piece in Features 4/28/14.

• Winners Announced for the 2013 Opinion Journalism Contest

  Published Tuesday, August 27, 2013

  Rodger Jones, editorial writer for The Dallas Morning News, and Robert Moore, editor of the El Paso Times, have been honored as opinion journalists of the year by the Association of Opinion Journalists (AOJ). Founded in 1947 as the National Conference of Opinion Writers, AOJ is a professional organization dedicated to advancing the craft of opinion

• Remembering Kenneth Rystrom, Jr.

  Published Tuesday, August 27, 2013

  Kenneth F. Rystrom, Jr., 81, former editor of The Columbian (Vancouver, WA) editorial page and retired journalism professor, died in Eugene, Oregon, on August 4, 2013, from complications of a stroke six months earlier. Until shortly before his death he had lived in Florence, OR, to be near his children and grandchildren. He was born in Bayard Nebraska to