Category: Scoop
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Discussions about Millionaires and Billionaires in the public arena are all over the airwaves and have certainly peaked interest in the role of money in our country. This month we have an opportunity to learn about the upper class first-hand when author John Hazard Forbes talks about his book, “Old Money America: Aristocracy in the…
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STOP right where you are and note the new email address for submitting articles to SCOOP. npcscoop@aol.com is where you should send any news, gossip, ideas, book signings, articles, etc. for publication. Deadline is the 15th of the month prior to publication. For the November issue, I need material by October 15th. Let’s give SCOOP…
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In a recent column in the Naples Daily News, editor Phil Lewis discussed a little-known journalistic stance of the New York Times. It seems that the influential newspaper made a newsroom decision recently on the topic of “quote approval.” WHO KNEW that the Times had been honoring demands for after-the-fact quote approval as a common practice? WHO KNEW…
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What do we know about the famous book “The Wizard of Oz”? Is it fiction or allegory; a religious statement or a story book: an idea of the author Frank Baum or the ideologies of his Mother-in-Law, Matilda Joslyn Gage? These and many other questions about this beloved book, published in 1900 and continuing to…
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Lauren Schoepfer and Eric Crum Lauren Schoepfer and Eric Crum were introduced to the Press Club of Southwest Florida members at the April 26th luncheon meeting. Both students will graduate from Barron Collier High School this spring and have been awarded the 2012-13 Press Club of Southwest Florida $1,000 Terrance J. Miller Scholarships. Lauren will…
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A Facebook analysis studying journalists' use of the subscribe feature finds that the group has experienced a 320 percent average increase in subscribers since November. However, this feature only became available in September, and this analysis is only based on 25 media profiles. Inside Facebook: Facebook's heavy push of the subscribe feature has apparently paid…
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Is reading going digital? According to an article in the recent Natural Awakenings Magazine, the number of Americans that prefer to read a book via an electronic reading device tripled in less than 12 months last year, but most still prefer to read a traditional, physical book. A survey of 1,000 American adults nationwide shows…
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Thomas Tyrrell is making his second appearance before our group. Last February, the retired international lawyer and geneaologist talked about “A View from Over There”. This time his topic will be ”An Arab Spring One Year Later” and “The British Tabloid Scandal.” In 1999, Tyrrell cofounded with others in Europe and America an international trust…
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In an earlier blog in SCOOP, we learned that nearly 1 in 3 newsroom jobs have been eliminated since the number of journalists peaked at 56,900 in 1989, according to an annual survey by the American Society of News Editors. At the end of 2010, only 41,600 scribes were left on the industry’s payrolls", states…
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