The first twelve SPJ members who email Hagit Limor at hlimor@wcpo.com get free tickets to hear New York Times columnist and Cincinnati native Gail Collins share her perceptive and humorous insights on American politics and society:
Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics

Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 7:30 pm

Millennium Hotel, 141 W. 6th Street

Gail Collins joined the New York Times in 1995 and in 2001 became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times editorial page. She is currently an op-ed columnist and her columns appear twice a week in the New York Times and once a week in the Cincinnati Enquirer. An author of several books, her book "America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines" was published in 2003 and its sequel, about American women since 1960, is scheduled for release in the fall of 2009. Please read the enclosed bio to learn more about Ms. Collins.

Greater Cincinnati SPJ is co-sponsoring this event with The Woman's City Club, an organization with 90+ years of service to our community.

Gail Collins joined the New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an op-ed columnist. In 2001 she became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times editorial page. At the beginning of 2007, she stepped down and began a leave in order to finish a sequel to her book, "America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines." She returned to the Times as a columnist last summer.

Before joining the Times, Ms. Collins was a columnist at New York Newsday and the New York Daily News, and a reporter for United Press International. Her first jobs in journalism were in Connecticut, where she founded the Connecticut State News Bureau, which provided coverage of the state capitol and Connecticut politics. When she sold it in 1977, the CSNB was the largest news service of its kind in the country, with more than 30 weekly and daily newspaper chains.

Besides "America's Women," which was published in 2003, Ms. Collins is the author of "Scorpion Tongues: Gossip, Celebrity and American Politics," and "The Millennium Book," which she co-authored with her husband, Dan Collins. Her new book is about American women since 1960. It is scheduled to come out in fall of 2009.

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