Category: Scoop


  • Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member.   Mature Women, It’s Time To Unite! An email came today that has me up in arms. The subject matter was “crop tops.” For those of you (probably only men) unaware of how these two simple words could cause a revolution, crop tops are

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  • To kick off Press Club of Southwest Florida’s 2017-2018 season, we invited three journalists from WINK-TV to relate their recent coverage of Hurricane Irma, which scoured the Florida peninsula in early September.

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  • Autumn Greetings from your Press Club of Southwest Florida Board of Governors! I am extremely proud to report that the NPC Board is “back in action” at top speed! We’re growing stronger than ever, after taking a necessary time-out in September, to recuperate, revitalize and return to normalcy following the devastating effects of Hurricane Irma in Southwest

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  • Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member.   Next Time, A Staycation (written many years ago) I finally found my desk today. On the surface, that doesn’t seem like much of a discovery, but for me it was equal to that celebrated landing Columbus made in what was known as “The

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  • Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. Class Notes   My alumni magazine came today. I go right to “Class Notes.” There I find out that my fellow classmates are CEOs of major companies, or have produced award-winning films or have written books that are on the New York Times Best

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  • Summertime is “planning time” for the Press Club of Southwest Florida Board! There is really no off season for our hard-working NPC Board of Governors. We have launched full steam into summer 2017! We started to outline our goals on Saturday, June 10, at our annual Planning Retreat. I’m eager to share a glimpse of

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  • The Press Club of Southwest Florida presented two new awards this year: Outstanding Young Journalists — in the field for five years or less Outstanding NPC Scholarship Students A committee of Bob Orr and Cary Barbor chose the two Outstanding Young Journalists, Kim Powell, WINK News and Evan Williams, Florida Weekly. Orr and NPC President

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  • NAPLES PRESS CLUB ANNOUNCES NEW AWARDS FOR YOUNG JOURNALISTS AND OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP STUDENTS An award ceremony took place at the June 1, 2017 Luncheon. Winners of the 2017 Young Journalists’ Honorarium Awards, $500 each, are: Print: Evan Williams, Florida Weekly Broadcast: Kim Powell, WINK News Winners of the 2017 Outstanding Scholarship Students’ Awards, $250 each,

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  • NPC’s Outstanding Scholarship Student award winner, Melissa Gomez, talks about her early summer activities   This summer, I completed two intensive journalism workshops while taking a few weeks off from interning at the Tampa Bay Times. While it would be nearly impossible to condense how much I learned into a couple of paragraphs, I did

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