MEETINGS
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Diversity in Politics
UNT political scientist Tony Eugene Carey, Jr. will address at the November meeting issues of racial and ethnic politics and
how they relate to elections. Dr. Carey, an assistant professor, specializes in
the areas of public opinion and political behavior, with primary interests in
African-American politics, racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and
political psychology.
His papers submitted or published include “Group Politics Redux: Race and Gender in the 2008 Democratic Presidential
Primaries” and “Social Protest and Policy Attitudes: The Case of the 2006 Immigration Rallies.” A graduate of Vanderbilt University and the State University of New York, he
recently presented at UNT Speaks Out: 2012 Presidential Primaries on how
members of different racial and ethnic backgrounds responded to the Republican
primary candidates.
Time & date: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14
Place: Colonial Country Club, 3735 Country Club Circle, Fort Worth
Cost: chapter members $25, national members $30, nonmembers $35, students $20;
walk-ups add $5
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Authors Showcase
A trio of area authors, each with a new book out — Donna Fielder (“Ladykiller”), Carmen Goldthwaite (“Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History”) and O.K. Carter (“Caddos, Cotton and Cowboys: Essays on Arlington,” winner of the Tarrant County Historical Commission’s William Jary Award) — will plumb the publishing depths and otherwise enlighten at the November SPJ
meeting at Joe T. Garcia’s.
Fielder was a newspaper reporter for 33 years and still considers herself a
journalist. Newspapers, however, are “moving in one direction in an effort to survive but I find that is not a
direction I am willing to travel.” She advises to be “very wary” of book publishers. Her book “Too Old to Die Young: Confessions of a Baby Boomer” is tied up in bankruptcy court and she doesn’t know how long it will be before she can reclaim it.
A journalist for years, Goldthwaite has always been drawn to the untold and
undertold stories. “Shoe-leather journalism, learned on the streets of Fort Worth, helped me find
the people, the facts and the stories of their contributions that have altered
Texas and Texans from the earliest days,” she says. “Patience, not my strong suit, and luck led to publication with a company that
had the same vision for the book that I did.”
Carter is the former editor and publisher of the Arlington Citizen-Journal, as
well as the former Star-Telegram publisher and editorial director for
Arlington. He retired in 2008 after 37 years with the Star-Telegram/Carter
Publications/Capital Cities/Capital Cities-ABC/Disney/Knight Ridder/McClatchy
Newspapers. A former Fort Worth SPJ president and producer of the Texas
Gridiron Show, he currently is a trustee for the Tarrant County College
District and editor of an online newspaper, Arlington News Network.
Time & date: mingle 6 p.m., eat 6:30, then the program Wednesday,
Nov. 7
Nov. 7
Place: Joe T. Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant, 2201 N. Commerce St.,
Fort Worth
Fort Worth
Cost: members $17, nonmembers $25, students $10, cash or check, free if you join right
then and there
Menu: Joe T.’s renowned family-style enchilada dinner; cash bar
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STRAIGHT STUFF
Investigative Reporters and Editors is bringing its highly rated Watchdog
Workshop to Fort Worth on Friday, Nov. 16. Hosted by the TCU Schieffer School
of Journalism, the training will offer IRE core sessions on finding information
on the web and how to add depth to your daily work and produce quick-hit
enterprise stories. Expect tips on bulletproofing stories, search engines and
digging deeper with social media. Sessions are designed for reporters, editors
and producers at small, midsize and large publications, TV, radio stations,
web-only sites and news blogs. Students, freelancers and journalism educators
are also encouraged to attend. Expected speakers include
Maud Beelman, The Dallas Morning News; Fort Worth SPJ director Yamil Berard, Star-Telegram; Eva Parks and Scott Friedman, KXAS; former Fort Worth SPJ director Mark Horvit, IRE; and Ted Mellnik, The Washington Post. Info here. ...
Nicci O’Boyle successfully uses e-mail marketing and social media to grow her lifestyle
business. As well as educating other small companies and organizations on what
she has learned, she works with private clients. She will share her experiences
at the Writers’ Guild of Texas meeting, 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 19, at the Richardson Public
Library. • Writer, blogger, ghostwriter, editor, new-media maven, speaker, actress and mom Elaine Gantz Wright will lead a Writers’ Guild seminar, “Building an Author Platform,” from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at the Richardson Civic Center (next
door to the library); $25 members, $35 nonmembers. • Improve your writing/editing skills at WGT PCS (planned critique sessions),
third Wednesday of the month, Richardson Public Library basement, 6:30-8:45
p.m. Participants present their own work and receive feedback from fellow
members.
• More at writersguildoftexas.org/joomla/. Send calendar items to Carol Woods at carol.woods@verizon.net.
