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Jelani Cobb, Columbia’s New Journalism Dean, Talked of Pursuing Dreams and Being Able to Afford To By David A. Andelman The average journalist’s salary in New York hovers right around the $50,000 mark, though few entry-level spots are available for … Continue reading →

David Gelles Dissected The Man Who Broke Capitalism–Jack Welch–at December’s Meeting By David A. Andelman When I left CNBC in Washington in 1994, Jack Welch was very much in charge of its owner, General Electric, whose stock was riding high … Continue reading →

Maggie Haberman: Silurians’ Taylor Swift, Trump’s Nemesis

By David A. Andelman “For this crowd, you are our Taylor Swift, our number one rock star,” Silurians president Joe Berger proclaimed at the November 16 lunch featuring Maggie Haberman, chronicler of Donald Trump and all his peccadillos. From the … Continue reading →

MTA Chair Janno Lieber Discussed the Future of Subways and Commuter Lines on October 19

By David A. Andelman Mass transit “for us, is like air and water,” said John (“Janno”) Lieber. By “us” he meant, of course, we New Yorkers, including journalists who grew up with the city’s subways and buses as the lifeblood … Continue reading →

Silurians 2022 Dennis Duggan Prize

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 →

First Silurians Luncheon of the Season, Sept. 21

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 →

SILURIANS OFFICER AND BOARD ELECTIONS, 2022 – 2023

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 →

Excellence In Journalism Awards

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 →

Exactly Who Gets a Coveted Times Obit

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 →

Tim Weiner, Intelligence and National Security Expert, Discussed the War in Ukraine and Explained Political Warfare at Our April 20 Meeting

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 →

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Our New Address

Please be aware that as of May 25, 2022, the Silurians Press Club has a new address:

Silurians Press Club
P.O. Box 2045
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163

Silurian Calendar

Dates for the 2023 season. All events, except those noted to be otherwise, fall on the third Wednesday of the month at the National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South. Further details will be announced as they become known.

Luncheon:
On February 15, we will hear from Sandra Peddie, Silurian member, Newsday investigative reporter and author of “The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John ‘Sonny’ Franzese“
On March 15 we will honor Joyce Purnick with the Silurians 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award

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New Members

Dan Cryer
Kyle Good
Joanne Mattera
Sheryl McCarthy
Melvin McCray
Jacklyn Monk
Sandra Peddie
Garry Pierre-Pierre
Terry Pristin
Dean Warren Schomburg
Mark Stamey
Sandra Stevenson

Obits

Grace O’Connor
Jim Lynn
Martin J. Steadman
Joseph J. Vecchione
Lawrence Malkin
Pat Fenton
Herbert Hadad
Judith Hole
Judith Bender
Rosalind Massow
Charles Strum
Jane H. Furse
Carl Spielvogel
Mike Santangelo
William Condie
Jack Schwartz
Stephen Stoneburn
Ray Brady

Member News

David Andelman has started a (free) Substack column Andelman Unleashed, so just click to subscribe. Also… On Dec 1 David was awarded France’s highest honor – the rank of chevalier (knight) of the Legion d’Honneur, for “a lifelong commitment to promoting better understanding between the people of France and the US”. (Learn more on page 8 of the Jan 2020 Silurian News.)


More news about Bill Diehl: Bill has a new book out, titled “50 Years of Celebrity Chatter: (Or The Time I Interviewed a Porn Star Naked,” in which he recounts his experiences interviewing various show-biz types during his years at ABC Radio Network and before that at WNEW. Besides the porn star Marilyn Chambers, of “Behind the Green Door” fame (she was naked, he wasn’t), he provides insights and anecdotes about a wide range of actors, including Tom Hanks, Bernadette Peters, Robin Williams, Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Tony Curtiss and Mel Brooks. And there are photographs, in both the paperback and Kindle versions of the book, available on Amazon. David Andelman calls it “truly a great, fun ‘read.’ I commend it to all.”


Bill Diehl, a veteran radio broadcaster who spent much of his career with ABC covering entertainment industry personalities, is himself the subject of a new podcast about his career of almost five decades. He was interviewed by Jordan Rich, a popular Boston podcaster. Here is the link to the podcast: https://player.blubrry.com/id/76975387/.
Diehl, a long-time member of the Silurians’ Board of Governors, is the author of the 2017 memoir “Stay Tuned: My Life Behind the Mic.” It is available on Amazon. He is currently working on his second book, “Who Said That?” A follow-up to “Stay Tuned,” it is expected to be ready for publication in the fall.


Like many of us, Stephen B. Shepard has had some second thoughts. Unlike many of us, he’s written them down and put them in a new book, a memoir called — aptly — “Second Thoughts.” It’s available on Amazon either as a paperback or a Kindle version. Shepard started rethinking his life when he turned 80 a couple of years ago, and felt that “retrospection” might yield new understanding about such subjects as the family of his boyhood; the profound changes in journalism since he was a youngster; the Jewishness he once rejected; a greater appreciation that can come with re-reading “fiction that matters”; and a closer look at the meaning of male friendship. Shepard, former editor of BusinessWeek magazine, is the founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, now known as the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Small parts of “Second Thoughts” have appeared in his two earlier books, “Deadlines and Disruptions” and “A Literary Journey to Jewish Identity.”


Just in time for the start of a new year, former Silurians president David A. Andelman has published his latest book, “A Red Line in the Sand,” now available on Amazon. A seasoned commentator who contributes frequently to CNN Opinion on global affairs and a former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and CBS News, Andelman combines history and global politics to help his readers better understand the exploding number of military, political, and diplomatic crises around the globe. Using original documentary research, previously classified material, interviews with key players, and reportage from more than 80 countries across five decades to help understand the growth, the successes and frequent failures that have shaped our world today. A former president of the Overseas Press Club and, most recently, the Silurians Press Club, Andelman has a long and renowned record that spans print and broadcast media as fluidly as it does national borders. Over the course of his career, he has traveled through and reported from more than 85 countries. A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he is a Visiting Scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and director of The Red Lines Project, a member of the Board of Contributors of USA Today, and a “Voices” columnist for CNN Opinion.
He is also the author of “The Peacemakers” and “A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today” and the co-author of “The Fourth World War.”

Around the Web

For a list of websites and blogs of special interests to journalists
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Silurians Member Blogs

  • Andelman Unleashed
  • Arlene's Scratch Paper: a blog of her writing, photography and random musings by Arlene Schulman
  • Novelist Online Onpaper by Kenneth Crowe
  • PollyTalk From New York by Polly Guerin
  • The Media Beat – a multimedia commentary by David Tereshchuk

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