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Newspapers’ size, distance from scene dictated their Marathon bombs coverage

Front pages for April 16 throughout New England had one element in common: the bombings at the Boston Marathon...

A day to record triumph ends in tragedy instead

It was Patriots’ Day -- the beginning of the 117th Boston Marathon and the end of Boston Globe reporter David Abel’s documentary. It was the day that his subject, Juli Windsor, would be the first dwarf to run the Boston Marathon. It was the day two bombs exploded near the finish line...

Globe photographer: ‘I started seeing things I couldn’t believe’

John Tlumacki walked around The Boston Globe barefoot when he returned from photographing this year’s Boston Marathon. He took his shoes off before going into the building because had been walking in pools of blood -- blood he remembers “like molasses sticking to your feet.”...

Speakers redefine Whitey’s self-image as 'good bad guy'

Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy did what Cullen said drives the subject of their book, notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, “absolutely crazy”: They defined the narrative of his life of crime. They did so in their book, “Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice,” and they did so in briefer form during their keynote speech May 2 at the 2013 New England Society of Newspaper Editors Journalism Awards Ceremony...

New England Society of Newspaper Editors Annual Awards

Photos of the following awards: Judith Vance Weld Brown Spirit of Journalism Award, Master Reporter, Master Photographer, Len Levin Master Copy Editor Award, Newsroom Rising Star, New England College Newspaper of the Year, Journalism Education Foundation of New England scholarship awards...

Some N.E. newspapers mute uncivil comments

There was a time when readers commenting online, encouraged to foster community involvement, had become one of newspapers’ worst nightmares. In the past, some anonymous commenters stepped out of line with vicious remarks and personal attacks. More recently, news websites have tightened their terms of service or changed the way comments are posted, to restrict open and anonymous commenting...

For Ellsworth American’s Jesse Groening, a first year of firsts as a videographer

Jesse Groening, now 24, attended his first day of work at The Ellsworth (Maine) American Jan. 23, 2012. It was the first time that the American had hired a videographer and the first time a newspaper in Maine had hired a full-time videographer. Yet in his first year, Groening won five New England Newspaper and Press Association awards. At NENPA’s winter convention in February, he collected three first-place plaques and two second-place awards at NENPA’s awards banquet...

NESNE journalism awards honor a range from student to ‘Master’ in the industry

This year’s New England Society of Newspaper Editors Journalism Awards Ceremony had enough interesting angles to give even the most frustrated of lead writers easy choices...

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