Author: Connie Kindsvater
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Matt Hudson and Kathleen Passidomo, Republican candidates for state Senate seat for District 28, shared their ideas, views and goals with 35 members and guests at the Press Club of Southwest Florida April 18 luncheon at the Hilton Naples. District 28 boundaries were recently redrawn and now include all of Collier and Hendry counties and…
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As the Honor the Free Press luncheon moderator, NPC member Michael Trephan began by introducing the video of NPC honorary member Peter A. Thomas reciting his moving “Omaha Beach” poem about D-Day, 1943, the more than 200 attendees fell silent. Even though Thomas was not well enough to attend in person, his memorable voice filled the…
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Jaynie Louise Tice, a junior in the FGCU journalism program and a 2013 graduate of Palmetto Ridge High School, Naples, applied for one of the Press Club of Southwest Florida Terrence J. Miller $1,000 annual journalism scholarships for the 2016-17 academic year. The NPC Scholarship Committee met, interviewed Tice and voted to award one of…
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“This election will be historical for many reasons,” said Laura Weir, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Center for Informational Education, Florida SouthWestern State College, at the Feb. 15 Press Club of Southwest Florida luncheon at the Hilton, Naples. “People feel the system is broken, Washington is broken, and Tallahassee is broken.” She stressed that the…
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At the February NPC Board of Governors meeting, it was decided to offer discounted, subsidized $10 student tickets through Eventbrite, primarily for FGCU journalism students who are not our scholarship students. The Feb. 15 luncheon meeting was the first time the tickets were offered, and two FGCU journalism students took advantage of the opportunity. Chelsea…
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Sixty NPC members and guests listened intently when three local journalism professionals talked about what’s happening in their media field. Penny Fisher, associate editor of the Naples Daily News, told the audience about a new glossy magazine that the NDN will debut in 2016. It will be mailed out to a select group of Naples residents.…
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Because we have provided scholarships to 21 journalism students to-date, Phil Beuth dubbed our recent fundraising campaign “21 More.” Two of this year’s students — Oscar Santiago and John Wix — graduated in December, leaving four others still plugging away. Provided they continue to meet their obligations, we’ll fund these four for the 2016-17 school…
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NPC member and investigative reporter Gina Edwards introduced Naples Daily News columnist and speaker Brent Batten at the Press Club of Southwest Florida Holiday Luncheon/Annual Meeting on Monday, Dec. 7, at the Hilton-Naples. Batten graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in Journalism and joined the Naples Daily News in 1985, as a police…
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It was 2003, and Angelina Spencer was doing field research on prostitution when she was a graduate student at George Washington University. Her research took her to the Blue Marlin Club in Costa Rica, interviewing prostitutes as to why they started doing that kind of work. But something else happened there that changed her attitude…
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