NEWMARK JOURNALISM STUDENT CANDACE PEDRAZA WINS 2022 DENNIS DUGGAN PRIZE by Jack Deacy Candace Pedraza, who is in her final year as a student at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, is the 2022 winner of the … Continue reading →
by Joe Berger, President Ken Auletta, masterful journalist, will talk about his new book on Harvey Weinstein and the Hollywood and media culture that enabled him, at the season’s first Silurians lunch, Sept. 21. Ken Auletta, it can be said … Continue reading →
JOSEPH BERGER ELECTED PRESIDENT; AILEEN JACOBSON NAMED EDITOR OF SILURIAN NEWS; CHESTER HIGGINS JR. JOINS BOARD OF GOVERNORS By Ben Patrusky Joseph Berger, a consummate New York Times reporter, columnist and editor for more than three decades and the prolific … Continue reading →
The New York Times and Newsday Win Top Honors In The 77th Annual Excellence In Journalism Awards Fortune Magazine, ESPN, WABC-TV, Type Investigations, THE CITY, WINS 1010 Radio, The New Yorker, Gothamist/WNYC, The Record/northjersey.com, News 12 Network, City Limits, USA … Continue reading →
by David A. Andelman For 16 years, Bill McDonald has served as a gatekeeper for the powerful, the famous, the quirky or the just plain interesting as they exit the world where they plied their trade or exercised their talents. … Continue reading →
By Aileen Jacobson The war in Ukraine represents “the resurrection of political warfare by the United States,” said Tim Weiner, our speaker at the April 20 Zoom meeting, our second program on that ongoing war instigated by Russia. Weiner, a … Continue reading →
By Aileen Jacobson For the first time in two years Silurians got to see each other in person, and for the first time ever we honored a photojournalist with our Lifetime Achievement Award during the gala on March 24 at … Continue reading →
By Michael Serrill I am pleased to announce that the Silurians Press Club has scheduled a special Zoom program on Wednesday, March 30 to discuss the most important global event in decades—the war between Russia and Ukraine. To lead the discussion, we have … Continue reading →
By David Margolick Early on in his profusely illustrious career, Edward Sorel neatly captured in a semi-autobiographical cartoon — it contains nine separate self-portraits — a brilliant artist’s eternal dilemma. In the drawing, which ran in the Nation, he ponders … Continue reading →
By David A. Andelman For 53 years, Steve Roberts was Cokie’s biggest fan. He was also her husband and, at times, writing partner and traveling companion. They also became, for each of them, mutual sources of ineffable inspiration. That’s the … Continue reading →
