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• Creed Black, 1925-2011

  Published Wednesday, August 17, 2011

  (This feature of the NCEW-AOJ website was active during the period the items bear; it remains visible on the AOJ site because some of the material is potenially of lasting interest. --JM May2014) From the Knight Foundation Blog: Creed Black, editor and newspaper publisher and the former president of Knight Foundation, has passed away. He was a courageous

• Williams inducted into NC Journalism Hall of Fame

  Published Saturday, June 18, 2011

  Ed Williams was inducted into the North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame at a dinner April 10 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was introduced by Hodding Carter III, who hired him as a reporter for the Carter family�s Greenville, Miss., Delta Democrat-Times in 1967. Williams, a former editor of the University of Mississippi student

• She always had time for others

  Published Tuesday, October 26, 2010

  Kay Semion, 2005 President of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, passed away Oct. 20, 2010 By Bonnie Calhoun Williams When asked to write a remembrance for The Masthead of our friend, Kay Semion, my first (shamefully selfish) response was to wonder where I would find the time to do it properly. Then I thought of Kay and the times she listened

• Rick Horowitz named NCEW Life Member

  Published Wednesday, September 29, 2010

  Rick Horowitz has cultivated a national following through his words, wit, wisdom and wealth of talents. He is one of the National Conference of Editorial Writers' brightest stars and one of the most sought-after mentors in the field of journalism. He is a syndicated columnist, Emmy-winning TV commentator, writing coach, adjunct college professor,

• 2010 Pulliam and Bingham award winners honored

  Published Tuesday, September 28, 2010

  By Frank Partsch� ���������New Yorkers received the applause of the NCEW convention�in Dallas for carrying off two of the more prestigious awards in the world of opinion-writing. ������������� James Dwyer, a Pulitzer-prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, is the 2010 recipient of a Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial Writing.� He will use

• NCEW today and tomorrow

  Published Saturday, September 25, 2010

  By Tricia Vance NCEW will continue to face challenges as it heads into 2011, but board officers are optimistic that the pressures facing the newspaper industry will not get in the way of the organization's commitment to its members and its mission. Although dues and membership were down this year, the board of directors reported at the annual NCEW

• Freedom of Information -- history of the good fight

  Published Saturday, September 18, 2010

  If you want a unique view of how democracy should work, pick up Mitchell W. Pearlman's new book "Piercing the Veil of Secrecy, Lessons in the Fight for Freedom of Information." Pearlman, the retired general counsel and executive director of Connecticut's singular Freedom of Information Commission, is a national treasure -- no, international treasure. He is

• A guide for op-ed writers

  Published Saturday, August 28, 2010

  The guide is courtesy of Gary Crooks and Doug Floyd at the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash. � The most important thing to remember is that we edit the page for the readers, not the writers.� � We prefer columns on local or regional topics -- the kind of issues that syndicated writers don't tackle. � Maximum length is 750 words. Tight writing is