Two women were inducted into the Marian Andersen Nebraska Women Journalists Hall of Fame during the Nebraska Press Women’s spring conference in Omaha on April 20. Clara Bewick Colby and Maxine Moul were chosen as the 2013 honorees. The induction was conducted during a noon luncheon at Creighton University. Clara Colby (1846 – 1916), Nebraska’s […]
In NPW’s 2012 High School Communications Competition, Omaha Westside students captured first place in seven of the 16 categories that received submissions while Hastings students took home six first place awards. Other schools with submissions that placed first include Marian High with two and Grand Island Senior High with one first-place win. Results were announced […]
Lori Potter, Kearney Hub agriculture/natural resources reporter, was elected president of the National Federation of Press Women on Thursday, Sept. 8, at the organization’s conference at Harrah’s in Council Bluffs. She will serve a two-year term leading NFPW. Potter joined NPW and NFPW in 1979. She has served as NPW president and has been on […]
Stephanie Geery-Zink, a two-term past president of Nebraska Press Women, was named Thursday as the 2011 NPW Communicator of Achievement. Geery-Zink, of Lincoln, is the communications director for the Center for People in Need, a Lincoln nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive services and opportunities to help people pull themselves out of poverty. Her selection was […]
The Nebraska Press Women (NPW) organization is establishing the Marian Andersen Nebraska Women Journalists Hall of Fame, with the inaugural class to be inducted in September. Nominations may be made by the general public and are due June 1, 2011. “The purpose of this new hall of fame is to recognize the working women journalists […]
HALSEY, Neb., April 30, 2011 – The work of students attending Nebraska high schools was showcased during the 2011 Nebraska Press Women High School Communications Competition. Results were announced today during the Nebraska Press Women’s spring convention at the State 4-H Camp near Halsey. Students from 12 schools entered work completed during 2010 in the […]
HALSEY, Neb., April 30, 2011 – A reporter for the Keith County News took top honors in the 2010 Nebraska Press Women Communications Contest. Awards were presented April 30 during NPW’s spring convention at the 4-H Camp in Halsey. Mary Pierce of Ogallala won first place in the Marianne Beel Sweepstakes Awards. Second place went […]
Grand Island Independent features editor Terri Hahn was named the 2010 Nebraska Press Women Communicator of Achievement (COA) at the group’s fall convention Oct. 9 in Red Cloud.
Media are welcome to use the article, downloadable here at no charge, that was written by Nebraska Press Women board member Diane Wetzel specifically for Sunhine Week 2010. It recounts the important role that Nebraska played in the legal interpretation of the First Amendment. Because the article was written at the request of Nebraska Press Women in celebration of Sunshine Week 2010, we ask only that you give NPW credit in an editor’s note. Thank you. –Ruth Brown, NPW president
