Category: Scoop


  •   Save the Date Wednesday, December 14   ~  The Hilton Naples  ~ 5111 Tamiami Trail North 6 – 10 pm     NPC Holiday Party 15th Anniversary Celebration   Plus   For All Members   We would like to include your 50-word bio  in our Souvenir Program Send your bio by Nov. 18 to Sandy Reed radiosalon@gmail.com ~ 216-6399 ~ More than 50 words

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  • Florida Gulf Coast University invites aspiring writers to attend the Sanibel Island Writers Conference, Thursday Nov.3, through Sunday Nov.6, at BIG Arts and the Sanibel Island Public library.   Participants can attend a variety of workshops, panels, lectures and readings presented by celebrated writers and teachers.   John Sayles will deliver the keynote address Saturday

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  • The ground breaking, live, global interactive radio program, where listeners set the agenda, was in Naples for the first time ever this week. On Thursday, October 6th, in Sugden Plaza on 5th Avenue, "World Have Your Say " show host Ros Atkins entertained a full house of participants, and hosted calls from around the world,

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  • Chicago, Illinois. Okinawa, Japan. Davenport, Iowa. St. Louis, Missouri. Hartford, Connecticut. Rochester, New York. Those are the places our new Press Club of Southwest Florida member Arnold Klinsky lived before becoming a Florida resident this past spring. With vacation trips to Pelican Bay for the last 15 years, Arnold has now decided to make Naples

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  • Happy to report that a new eBook will arrive this coming week on Amazon.com. It is called 'A Guy Named Bunny' and is written by our 94 year old member, an NPC founding member, Bernard F. Dudley.  With a foreword by John D. Casey, who won the National Book Award for 'Spartina' in 1989 and

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  • In a talk entitled "Constitutional Relevance in the Age of Obama", Levy will contrast the constitutional views of liberals, conservatives and libertarians – then apply those distinctions to two or three hot-button issues: campaign finance reform, same-sex marriage and health care. When: Thursday ,October 27th, 11:30 am Where: Naples Hilton Hotel, Tamiami Trail just south

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  • The Hilton will be our new home for our regular meetings. Get to know it. When: Thursday, October 13 for 5:30 – 7:00pm Where: Naples Hilton on Tamiami Trail just south of Pine Ridge Road. What: Meet in the lobby area near Shula's for networking, fellowship, and drink specials.Please remember that tipping is expected even

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  • Letter from Roberta Hecht appeared in NDN and Collier Citizen, May 2011 May 19, 2011,Editor, Naples Daily News: Monday night I had the distinct privilege of attending Golden Gate High School’s “Awards Night”. Specifically, I was in attendance to award a Press Club of Southwest Florida Terrence J. Miller Scholarship to Oscar Santiago-Torres, a most

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  • Jim Sheeler, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, on his appointment to the faculty at Case Western Reserve University, speaking about a profession undergoing at least a midlife crisis:   "A notebook is a passport to all sorts of  places…Journalists will discover someway or other to make good money on the Internet. And if they don't, journalism is a life

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