Monthly Archives: January 2015
GBO NEWS: NYT Ends, Revamps “New Old Age”; Social Security’s Race, Gender Tax Gap; Age Fellowship Deadline, ‘Selma’ & More
Posted: January 20, 2015 at 1:00 am
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations
January 20, 2015 — Volume 15, Number 2
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. You can subscribe to GBONews.org at no charge simply by sending a request to Paul with your name, address, phone number and editorial affiliation or note that you freelance. You’ll receive the table of contents as e-mail, just click through to the full issue at www.gbonews.org.
IN THIS ISSUE: Tax the Rich Candidates.
1. GEN BEATLES NEWS: New York Times Ends “New Old Age” Blog, and Starts Newer “New Old Age.”
2. EYES ON THE PRIZE: Columbia University’s Age Boom Academy Journalism Fellowship Application Deadline Feb. 6.
3. FISCAL REFORM SCHOOL: Race, Gender & Social Security Tax Study–Social Security Tax Gap Widest on Race, Gender
4. THE BOOKMOBILE: Spring Chicken: How to Stay Young Forever (Or Die Trying), by Bill Gifford; *** Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America by William H. Frey; *** Preventing Hospital Infections (that kill 75,000 Americans a year) by Robert W. Stock and colleagues.
5. END NOTE AT -30- Don’t Miss “Selma”
Read More...GBO NEWS: Reporting Fellowship Deadlines; GOP’s Disability Attack; & More
Posted: January 14, 2015 at 1:00 am
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. You can subscribe to GBONews.org at no charge simply by sending a request to Paul with your name, address, phone number and editorial affiliation or note that you freelance. You’ll receive the table of contents as e-mail, just click through to the full issue at www.gbonews.org.
IN THIS ISSUE: Starting Our 22nd Year. We’re Spry—I Hate Spry!
1. EYES ON THE PRIZE: $10,000 Health Care Print Journalism Awards Deadline Feb 18; *** SPJ’s Sigma Delta Chi Awards Deadline, Feb. 6; *** AHCJ’s Application Deadline is March 2 for Fellowships
2. CALENDAR: 2015 White House Conference on Aging (WHCOA) Announced 5 Regional Preconference Events
3. FISCAL REFORM SCHOOL—GOP’s Salvo at Social Security & Disability
4. THE STORYBOARD: “When a Patient’s Death is Broadcast Without Permission,” by Charles Ornstein, Pro Publica; *** “The Liberation of Growing Old,” by author Anne Karpf, New York Times; *** “5 Biggest Threats To Social Security From New Republican Congress,” by Eric Laursen, Alternet; *** My Civil Rights Year—Selma, Louisiana and Mrs. Caulfield’s Butterbeans, by Paul Kleyman, New America Media; *** “‘Kill the Pain, Not the Patient’–Catholicism’s Message on Palliative Care,” by Vivian Zalvidea Araullo, INQUIRER.net, *** “Growing Awareness of End-of-Life Care Among Nigerian Immigrants,” by Julian Do, Immigrants Magazine Online
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