2010 Student Scholarship Winners Announced

Russell Frank, NSNC Education Chair and Associate Professor of Communications at Penn State University, announced the winners of the 2010 NSNC Scholarship Contest today. Frank said, "There were 110 entries this year, a very pleasing number..." Preliminary judge, Ben Pollock, NSNC Vice President noted, "Judging the students was hard this year: No bad columnists in …

Former NSNC Scholarship Winner Becomes National News Anchor

National Society of Newspaper Columnists Education Foundation Secretary, Dave Lieber, reports that the very first winner of our Student Scholarship Contest has just become a national media news anchor. An article on the Nola.com website this morning reported that Rob Nelson, formerly a reporter at the New Orleans Times-Picayune for 7 years, has accepted a job as news anchor at …

How to Become a Columnist

NSNC sometimes receives inquires from aspiring columnists about how to be a columnist. This answer covers it for almost anyone interested. ------EMAIL----- From: Jameson Date: May 6, 2010 8:06 AM Subject: Becoming a Columnist To: director@columnists.com [This mail was sent via contact form on columnists.com http://www.columnists.com] Message Body: My name is Jameson. I am a senior English …