Monthly Archives: October 2014

GBO NEWS: Press Meet-Up at GSA; Geoffrey Holder’s Last Dance; Being Mortal

Posted: October 14, 2014 at 1:00 am

GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS

E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations

October 14, 2014 — Volume 14, Number 14

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: Best Halloween Groan? Pirates.ARG.

1. CONFERENCE BEAT: Gen Beat Reporters to Meet-Up at GSA in D.C., Nov. 5-9; *** “A List” of Journalists (Kristof, Pauley and others) Slated for “Encore Nation” Conference in Arizona, Oct. 28-30.

2. MORTAL COIL: MUST READING — *** Leo Holder’s Luminous Account of His Father, Dancer Geoffrey Holder’s, Final “Impromptu Dance” at 84; *** “What Happens When We All Live to 100?” by Gregg Easterbrook, in The Atlantic; ***More Chinese American Elders Stating Their End-of-Life Wishes,” by Stephanie Wu.

3. THE BOOKMOBILE: *** Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande, MD; *** Dr. Lani’s No-Nonsense Bone Health Guide, by Lani Simpson with Mary Claire Blakeman

4. GEN BEATLES NEWS: ***Arizona’s “Connect 60+” Website Give Forum to Trudy Schuett among six blogging “Champions”; ***Tips From Robert Finn in Two Good Sources-Multiple Sclerosis Discovery Forum and Alzforum.

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GBO NEWS: Ageist Provocateur Zeke Emanuel’s Jovial Death Wish at 75

Posted: October 10, 2014 at 1:00 am

GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS

E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations

October 10, 2014 — Volume 14, Number 13

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: The Annual Blessing of the Indigenous Canoes.

 

1. THE STORY BOARD: Death in Journalism Takes No Holiday: Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal; *** Nina Bernstein’s Fighting … To Die at Home” in the New York Times; *** “Business of Dying” series in the Washington Post

2. EYES ON THE PRIZE: Associated Press-NORC Reporting Fellowship; *** Stanford’s Knight Journalism Fellowship Deadline, Dec. 1

 

3. DR. ZEKE EMANUEL: AGEIST PROVOCATEUR: On His Atlantic Essay, “Why I Hope to Die at 75,”

4. GEN BEATLES NEWS: The Caregivers author Nell Lake at WriteAngles Conference in Massachusetts

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