Monthly Archives: August 2017
GBO NEWS: Labor Day & Older Workers; ‘Ending Ageism’; WaPo Profiles 5 Surviving Beat Writers; & More
Posted: August 24, 2017 at 1:00 am
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
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: Real news by good people.
1. THE STORYBOARD: LABOR DAY EDITION:
*** “Shown the Door, Older Workers Find Bias Hard to Prove,” by Elizabeth Olson, New York Times;
*** “COACHELLA RISING: Aging Farmworkers, Unions, Organic Mangos & the Salton Sea,” by David Bacon, Capital & Main / American Prospect / New America Media;
*** “Working Past Retirement Can Keep You Healthy,” by Ruxandra Guidi, USC Center for Health Journalism Member Blog;
*** “Surviving as an Old in the Tech World,” by Karen Wickre, Wired;
*** “Educational Difference in Employment at Older Ages,” study by Richard W. Johnson, Urban Institute.
2. AGING BEATNIKS NEWS: *** “Driving the Beat Road,” by Jeff Weiss, video by Erin Patrick O’Connor, Washington Post: Profiles of five surviving writers of the Beat Generation– Lawrence Ferlinghetti (now 98), Michael McClure (84), Gary Snyder (87), and Diane di Prima (82), as well as “Beat-adjacent” novelist/memoirist Herbert Gold (93).
3. THE BOOKMOBILE: *** “Hard-Won Advice in Books on Aging and Elder Care,” by Ron Lieber, New York Times; *** Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People by Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Rutgers University Press; *** Fierce with Reality: Literature on Aging, Revised Edition, edited by Margaret Cruikshank, Hamilton/Roman & Littlefield.
4. GOOD RESOURCES: ***Schedule Posted: 7th Annual Legacy Film Festival on Aging in San Francisco, Sept. 15-17; ***New Alzheimer’s Association Caregivers Survey; ***The 6th Annual 2017 Retirement Empowerment Summit, Latinos for a Secure Retirement (LSR) Coalition, Washington, D.C., October 2.
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Posted: August 16, 2017 at 1:00 am
GENERATIONS BEAT ONLINE NEWS
E-News of the Journalists Network on Generations — Our 24th Year.
August 16, 2017 — Volume 17, 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. 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: A total eclipse of the bigots.
1. EYES ON THE PRIZE: ***Reporting on Aging Issues, National Press Foundation Fellowship Deadline, Sept. 6; *** Awards to PBS Next Avenue’s Rich Eisenberg and WUNC Public Radio’s Leoneda Inge; *** USC Center for Health Journalism’s California Data Fellowship Deadline, Aug. 25;
2.ON THE SILVER SILVER SCREEN: *** 7th Annual Legacy Film Festival on Aging in San Francisco, Sept. 15-17.
3. THE STORYBOARD:
*** “Let’s End Ageism,” TED Talk by Ashton Applewhite;
*** “LBJ Launches Medicare: ‘You Can’t Treat Grandma This Way’” by Bill Moyers;
*** “Stop Treating 70- and 90-Year-Olds the Same,” by Louise Aronson, New York Times “Sunday Review”;
*** “Research Details How Racial Disparities, Stress and Poverty Can Affect Alzheimer’s Risk,” AHCJ blog on Aging, by Liz Seegert;
*** “GOP Health Bill—How We Got Into This Mess,” by Paul Kleyman, New America Media, also on Salon;
*** “Black, Gray and Gay: The Perils of Aging LGBTQ People of Color,” NBCBLK/New America Media, by Chandra Thomas Whitfield;
*** “Why Robots Are the Way of Our Aging Future,” Ottawa Citizen/New America Media, Elizabeth Payne.
4. SUMMER OF LU-U-U-V GENERATION IN GENERATIONS: *** “The Summer of Love, the Baby Boomers, and their Arc of Aging,” is the theme of the latest issue of Generations (journal of the American Society on Aging).
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