Deadline Extended! Apply for the 14th Journalists in Aging Fellows Program [tinyurl.com/342uvswd] by Friday, July 28. Fellows from mainstream and ethnic/community media get $1500, plus all costs to attend the top science & society conference on aging in Tampa, Nov. 8-12.

Sizzling off the Press: GBO NEWS: McConnell, Feinstein--80 as New Fear Factor; Black Military Women; Few Cancer-Risk Patients in Drug Trials; Bias in Menopause Studies; Climate Change and Mental Health; Living With Arthritis; Isolated in Colorado; & MORE tinyurl.com/brcw2ssf

My latest issue -- GBO NEWS: Columbia’s Age Boom Journalism Fellowships Names 36 Reporters; Kristof on US Health Scandal; Senior Care Unaffordable with Job Coverage; Stealth Mental Care Crisis; Japanese Artist Hokusai on Positive Aging; & MORE tinyurl.com/4ehxfrns

My latest issue: GBO NEWS: Journalists in Aging Fellowships Select 15 Reporters; Menopause Blog Empowering Women’s Health; Alzheimer’s Memories and Chile’s Other 9/11; Positive Dementia Films Beyond Fear of Diagnosis; & MORE tinyurl.com/4pmfnzc9

Just out, my latest: GBO NEWS: 22 Journalists in Aging Fellows at GSA Scientific Meeting in Tampa; Stanford’s Knight Fellowship Deadline; National Press Foundation’s 19 Fellows; Online Resources, Books for Reporters—Methuselah’s Zoo, Ageism Unmasked -- tinyurl.com/4hprjbua

With Hopeful Hanukkah Wishes for Dark Times, here's my latest: GBO NEWS: 14th Journalists in Aging Fellows; Harvard’s Housing Seniors Study; NYT-KHN Dying Broke Series on Cost; Black Nursing Homes; The Elders’ Gaza Statement; Suicide & Old Men - tinyurl.com/354j987p

GBO NEWS: Past Presidential Hopeful O’Malley Now Heads Social Security; FL Alzheimer’s Costs; WI Memory Cafes; Hmong Elders; LGBTQ Housing; Nursing Home Staffing; Active Green Aging; Medicare’s Advantage Plan Trap; Aging Angry Book; MORE -- tinyurl.com/3tubw97a

GBO NEWS: Wise Up to Aging, Jon Stewart – On Presidents, Partisanship, the Press and Prejudice -- and more stuff -- See my latest issue tinyurl.com/4m2vkdmz

My main essay from this week's GBONews.com is now cross-posted on the "LA Progressive" news site: "Ageism Memo to Jon Stewart – On Presidents, Partisanship, the Press and Prejudice" laprogressive.com/the-media-in-t…

“In ‘Father Verses Sons,’ Author Herbert Gold Meets His Gen X Sons at Life's Horizon,” by Paul Kleyman, PBS Next Avenue (March 7, 2024): These poetry letters between Gold at 99, and his Gen X sons is coming out this week. tinyurl.com/2pest5w4

GBONEWS: Science of Presidential Memory; Social Security Campaign Debate; Ageism in Health Care; Health Journalism Scholarships; Paltrow’s Goop Scoop on Longevity; Am Soc on Aging 70th Meeting; 3 Decades at NYT; Tevye’s on Kindness v. Cruelty tinyurl.com/m8vk4mub

My latest: GBONEWS: Mental Health & Aging Online May 2; Minority Aging Impact; Unhoused Seniors; Indian Elders in U.S.; Medicare & Long-COVID; Surviving End-Stage Poverty; Fellowship on Covering Election; Geriatrician Shortage; Bad Algorithms; & MORE tinyurl.com/mw3zh4ht

GBONews: Especially pleased to offer my review of William Gee Wong's memoir, "Sons of Chinatown," a history of his family, Chinese immigration, and his Journalism career, often as the 1st Asian in the newsroom. - tinyurl.com/2vh86yjr

My latest: A Grandad of The Sixties Reflects on Campus Protests and His Little Leaguer’s Future” — tinyurl.com/3f3pms55 — LA Progressive - May 23, 2024

GBONEWS: 15th Journalists in Aging Fellowship Deadline; WSJ Hit for Ageist Biden Story by Big Media, Colbert, Myers; WHO Fight on Next Pandemic, US Senate on Affordable Dental; Few Blacks in Residential Care; Hmong Adult Day Care; & MORE tinyurl.com/mr2uvckb

GBONEWS: Deadline Extended--15th Journalists in Aging Fellowships to July 22. Reporters needing more time, contact me: [email protected] tinyurl.com/7k454hy7

Thanks, Scott Simon, for lovely tribute to our friend, journalist Ina Jaffe, [tinyurl.com/4s7m2yty] wonderful NPR reporter on issues in aging.

Another former Governor of my Great home State of Minnesota — a conservative independent I;’d have never voted for, a former Navy Seal and pro-wrestling Star — Jesse “The Body” Ventura on Gov. Tim Walz. Maybe you’ll be amazed — youtube.com/watch?v=WWMZcw…

GBONEWS: Ageism Experts on “Too Old” Biden; 14 New Journalists in Aging Fellows; Reporter in Pandemic-Care Trenches; Age Tech Market Exploding; Senior Hunger, Neglect in New Mexico, California; MORE - tinyurl.com/yt4d5j7u

See my latest GBONEWS: American Eldercide on Preventable Pandemic Deaths; Hospital, Heal Thyself; Fellowship Taps 5 Reporters; Hey, PBS! Julia Alvarez (the author’s Mom) was UN’s “Ambassador of Ageing” tinyurl.com/mr474hj4