This afternoon, a rescued bit of American history is being restored -- at least as best it can be -- in a White House ceremony.
According to George E. Condon Jr., the unofficial historian of the White House Correspondents’ Association, the only piece of property ever “owned” by the WHCA was the large, handsomely framed original charter. But it was lost.
The document began simply enough: “This organization shall be known as the White House Correspondents’ Association. Its primary object shall be the promotion of the interests of those reporters and correspondents assigned to cover the White House.”
What followed were various organizational bylaws, along with the names of the group’s charter members, eight men (this was 1914, after all) representing The Washington Star, the Washington Times, the Cincinnati Times-Star, the three existing wire services, and two papers named The Sun -- one in Baltimore, the other in New York.
Attribution: Carl M. Cannon, Realclearpolitics.com
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‘Forrest Gump’ author’s former Old Town colonial is up for grabs at $1.2 million
The spacious colonial, where it’s believed the D.C. native composed the best-seller in the downstairs office, hit the market Thursday for $1,195,000.
The former Washington Star reporter lived there with his first wife, Ruth Noble, who took ownership of the property in 1977 after their 1974 divorce, listing agent Sue Goodhart of McEnearney Associates Inc. told us. The current owner, she said is “downsizing.”
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UPDATE - Rachel Shuster
Rachel Shuster, former sportswriter, national sports columnist and for the last 20 years a sports editor, is joining her colleagues in taking a buyout from USA TODAY. She is not retiring, however, and welcomes all inquiries.Read story: USA TODAY offers buyouts to veteran staffers
UPDATE - Susan Ades Stone
Susan Ades Stone is an award-winning journalist who has a Zelig-like way of landing at startups in their earliest days, among them CNN, the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, The World Science Festival and now, Executive Director and Campaign Strategist for "Women On 20s".She began her career as a print reporter at the Washington Star. Later, at CNN, she produced the first weekly live-by-satellite interview program, blazing the trail for programs like Nightline. Covering medicine, science and the environment for MacNeil/Lehrer, she reported on the discovery of the AIDS virus, "acid rain," the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl, among dozens of other national stories. She is the recipient of a 1984 George Polk Award for a short documentary on the efforts of a guerilla anti-abortion group that inspired a spate of clinic bombings and she was nominated for Emmy and Cable Ace awards, among other honors.
Amidst it all, she and her husband Jeff raised three children who can't wait to cast the first votes at Women on 20s.
Attribution: http://www.womenon20s.org/bios
Former NBC News Reporter Lisa Myers: Television Journalism Is Deteriorating
Lisa Myers, an NBC News veteran who retired in 2014, is scheduled to give a speech in Des Moines about her career in television. And her diagnosis of the industry as it currently stands is, shall we say, unflattering.
“I am going to talk about the deterioration in the quality of journalism you see on TV,” she told the Des Moines Register. “There is less and less interest in network television today holding the White House or any other part of government accountable. I fear there is a calculation that the audiences they are trying to reach don’t care that much about the serious news. I think most of the political coverage these days has all the depth of Twitter.”
Full article: TV News Deteriorating
h/t Tim O'Leary
“I am going to talk about the deterioration in the quality of journalism you see on TV,” she told the Des Moines Register. “There is less and less interest in network television today holding the White House or any other part of government accountable. I fear there is a calculation that the audiences they are trying to reach don’t care that much about the serious news. I think most of the political coverage these days has all the depth of Twitter.”
Full article: TV News Deteriorating
h/t Tim O'Leary
Smooth golf writer helps lift Low Country out of the sand trap
Charles Price, who is one of seven personalities being inducted into the Golf Hall of fame, could write as well as his friend Bobby Jones could swing the golf club. As soon as he solda story for $1,000 to The Saturday Evening Post, he quit his job at the Washington Star and climbed into the high-wire act of freelance writing.
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Attribution: DAVID LAUDERDALE, islandpacket.com
Full story> Golf Hall Of Fame Inductee
Attribution: DAVID LAUDERDALE, islandpacket.com
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