Category: Scoop


  • Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. LOBES OF LOVE I told this story 18 years ago, shortly after I had my ears pierced. Ear-piercing is no big deal, you say. Babes in arms already have gold studs adorning their tiny lobes. Then you point to teenagers who, not content with

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  • Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member. THREE FOR ONE This morning I spent an hour looking for my makeup bag. I always keep it in my bathroom next to the sink, but this morning it wasn’t there. “Impossible,” I said to myself. So the search began with no clue as

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  • President’s Note

      As we begin a new year, I’d like to thank our Press Club of Southwest Florida members for placing your confidence in me, as I follow in the path forged by my mentor and our two-term president, Carole Greene, who now serves as our vice president of administration. My new role at the helm of NPC

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  • Greetings to all! As your new president, it gives me great pleasure to submit my first “Your Board in Action”! Our first meeting of the incoming Board of Governors on December 13, 2016, was a wonderful way to pay tribute to our amazing club and wrap up the year, along with a preview of our

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  • After two decades of service to members and the Naples community, the Press Club of Southwest Florida enters 2017 with a secure future: a $20,000 donation to its journalism scholarship fund. The $20,000 donation by Phil Beuth, a retired Capital Cities/ABC executive and past NPC scholarship committee chair, was revealed in a surprise announcement at

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  • The recent presidential election created a tectonic shift in the role of the media. Punditry was left in a sham, fake-news reporting became rampant, and the mainstream media lost their credibility as the guardians of truth, dispensers of the facts and as objective observers of our reality. Who is now going to keep the politicians

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  • Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member.   I WAS FINE UNTIL I SAW THE MEALWORMS You might think I would cringe at the prospect of cleaning a bald eagle’s flight cage—with the male eagle perched in the corner, eyeing me with some kind of sinister bird-of-prey calculation. Didn’t bother me

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  • Member Musings features the reflections and thoughts of an NPC member.   A Hunting We Will Go   Finding interesting things to do with your visiting family is sometimes a challenge. This time I said, “You make the plans.” So my son told me we were going fossil hunting. Huh? “What is that and where?”

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  • Special Event: 20 years of the Press Club of Southwest Florida You are Invited!     Thursday, Dec. 1 Luncheon Honoring the Founders and Past Presidents Be part of history! Founders and members will recall the past and look to the future. Tell us what the Press Club of Southwest Florida means to you, share

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