The woman who trumped Trump—twice
Our January 21 luncheon guest speaker is E. Jean Carroll, the celebrated journalist who twice trumped Trump in court for his sexual transgressions.
Carroll will discuss her best selling memoir, Not My Type: One Woman Against a President, “a hilarious, hopeful, revelatory behind-the-scenes account of the trials that riveted the nation” [USA Today]. It promises to be a rambunctious, irreverent conversation with Molly Jong-Fast, a NY Times and MS Now contributor and fellow Silurian.
Registration for this event is closed. To add your name to the waiting list email mel@silurians.org.
William F. Buckley: conservative, curious, contradictory
Sam Tanenhaus, celebrated author of Buckley: The Life and Revolution That Changed America, spoke at the Silurians Dec. 17 luncheon.
By David A. Andelman
It was 20 years in the making, but an hour with Sam Tanenhaus, author of Buckley, brought William F. Buckley into focus more deeply and compellingly, in all his immense complexity and diversity, than I thought I'd known for the last 70 or so years.
News Media News
About Silurians, by Silurians
The Irrefutable power of Community Reporting
By Adam Stone
On July 12, 2025, The New York Times published a front-page story “UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics,” which included an account of the insurer’s apparent attempt to chill my Westchester County-based investigative reporting....This mega-corporation wanted to silence my local watchdog news outlet—emphasis on local.
Reporter’s Tenacity Unravels – and Helps Chronicle – Her Family’s Wartime Secrets
By Karen A. Frenkel
My training is as a science writer and technology journalist and producer.... I transitioned to narrative nonfiction with the Family Treasures Lost and Found project, which includes my recently published memoir and tie-in documentary. .Both chronicle my investigative quest to fill gaps in the survival stories of my Polish Jewish parents and sole surviving grandfather.
This Optimistic ʻSilurian Newbieʼ Is Grooming The Next Generation of Journalists
By Cathi Steele
I’m a Silurian newcomer, relatively speaking, as I was accepted into this esteemed press club in July 2025. Like you, I’m concerned about—and sometimes downright distraught over—the perilous climate in which journalists and media find themselves.
And yet, I see a future of possibilities.
Your first career was just the lede. Now we want the rest of the story. Whether you’re publishing a book, article, Substack, stepping back into the classroom, or taking on new challenges, share your recent endeavors with your fellow Silurians.
Journalism and AI
Love it or fear it, Artificial Intelligence is rapidly being integrated in newsrooms around the world in a variety of ways, even as the technology upends and challenges online news business models. Here you will find links to articles, clips and videos that will be updated from time to time to help better understand this accelerating trend.
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