Monthly Archives: May 2014

GBO NEWS: News Fellowship Deadlines; Economist’s Billion Shades of Ageism

Posted: May 22, 2014 at 1:00 am

GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS

E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations

May 22, 2014 — Volume 14, Number 8

Editor’s Note: GBO News, e-news of the Journalists Network on Generation publishes alerts for journalists, producers and authors covering generational issues. Send your news of important stories or books (by you and others), fellowships, awards or pertinent kvetches to GBO News Editor Paul Kleyman. If you receive the table of contents as e-mail, just click through to the full issue at www.gbonews.org.

IN THIS ISSUE: Memories in the Corners of Your News.

1. EYES ON THE PRIZE – FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS: 2014 Journalists in Aging Fellowship Deadline, July 1; ***Health Journalism Workshop on Rural Health, Travel Grant Deadline, May 28

2. GEN BEATLES NEWS: “One Death Too Many” – An AP Reporter’s Story Behind a Story

3. FISCAL REFORM SCHOOL: Thomas Piketty and The Economist’s “Billion Shades” of Ageism

4. THE STORY BOARD: “More Seniors Going Into Retirement Shouldering Mortgages, Feds Say,” by Pamela Yip, Dallas Morning News; *** “Recession Leaves Ethnic Families ‘Beyond Broke,’” by Paul Kleyman, New America Media; *** “For Many Boomer Immigrants, Rough Times Ahead, by Chris Farrell, PBS’ Next Avenue (also New America Media); *** “Do Not Resuscitate: What Young Doctors Would Choose,” by Paul Span, New York Times, “New Old Age” blog;  *** “Healthy Aging Into Your 80s and Beyond: 5 Keys to a Long, Healthful Life,” by Liz Seegert, Consumer Reports; *** “’Silver Tsunami’ And Other Terms That Can Irk The Over-65 Set,” NPR Morning Edition, Ina Jaffe and Renée Montaigne; *** AND the “Journalists Exchange on Aging Survey on Style,” a timely reminder about our 2007 GBONews Special Report on the language of aging.

 

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GBO NEWS: OWL’S Mother’s Day Report; Race, Age & the Recession; Crossword Queen Turns 100

Posted: May 8, 2014 at 1:00 am

GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS

E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations

May 8, 2014 — Volume 14, Number 7

Editor’s Note: GBO News, e-news of the Journalists Network on Generation publishes alerts for journalists, producers and authors covering generational issues. Send your news of important stories or books (by you and others), fellowships, awards or pertinent kvetches to GBO News Editor Paul Kleyman. If you receive the table of contents as e-mail, just click through to the full issue at www.gbonews.org.

IN THIS ISSUE: Call your Ma! And Your Grandma, too!

1. GOOD SOURCES: OWL’s Annual Mother’s Day “Card” on Long-Term Care; ***Study Shows Recession Deepened Wealth Disparities for Young and Ethnic Americans; *** “Beyond Broke” Report on Racial Wealth Gap.

2. THE STORY BOARD: Top Crossword Creator at 100 and Other Tales from Philly Inquirer’s Mike Vitez; *** “What Do the Suicides of Fifty-Year-Old Men Reveal?” by Margaret Morganroth Gullette in Tikkun; *** “It’s Time to Banish the Word ‘Informal,’” declares AARP policy blogger Lynn Friss Feinberg. But for What?

3. GEN BEATLES NEWS: India West’s Sunita Sohrabji Honored for Story on Suicide Among Indian Americans, also She Publishes “Indian American Widows Prefer Living Alone Than With Their Families”; ***Kerry Hannon’s What’s Next? Book on Encore Careers Released in Paperback; *** The Historical “Noah”? Hysterical.

4. EVENT HORIZON: *** “The Creative Age: Exploring Potential in the Second Half of Life,” will be a conference, June 10-14, in Washington, D.C.

 

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