MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Notable accomplishments in the New England newspaper industry
Anne Sheehan, Editor and Matt Hongoltz Hetling, Asst. Editor of the Advertiser-Democrat are winners of the George Polk Award and the Michael Kelly Award.
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HALL of FAME

Honoring lifetime achievement at New England newspapers
Morley L. Piper
New England Newspaper Association
   

After 12 years with the Boston Globe Piper oversaw the merger of the New England Daily Publishers Association with the New England Newspaper Advertising Bureau to create the New England Newspaper Association. He served as executive director of NENA for 45 years until its merger to become NENPA in 2009. He is a recipient of the Yankee Quill award, and the NENPA First Amendment Award is named in his honor. He continues today as the executive director of the Newspaper Association Managers organization. Through the years Piper has been friend, counselor and adviser to generations of New England newspaper executives.

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Important industry news for New England newspapers

Databases form basis for most solid news reporting

The Internet has changed much in journalism, particularly for newspapers. Online content has become important, and the news media are scrambling to keep up with the “next big thing.”...

Framing the photo

With the powerful design software we have at our fingertips these days, we have many more options for most design elements — even those we might consider minor parts of a page...

Along came a spider and ...

Some years ago, I met with a foreign car dealer to learn about his advertising. In the showroom, there was a beautiful red sports car – a new model that had just arrived that week. When I commented on the car, the dealer said, “Yeah, and we didn’t even find a Black Widow spider in this one.”...

NENPA University: A study in cost-effective training

In July, the New England Newspaper and Press Association will launch NENPA University, an initiative to provide what NENPA envisions as affordable, high-quality professional development training for newspaper personnel throughout New England...

NENPA’s Marketing and Ad Council has its Skunk Works cut out for it

Although Mark French’s priority at the moment is NENPA University, the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s leadership has tasked its Marketing and Ad Council with three strategic components: developing curriculum for NENPA University, Skunk Works, and developing a digital advertising network that will allow advertisers to buy digital ads easily in any or all NENPA member newspapers with just one telephone call...

SND33: World’s Best Designed website: BostonGlobe.com

After carefully considering the list of entries into the SND’s Best of Digital Design competition, the judges have selected one website as this year’s World’s Best Designed for 2011: That site is the BostonGlobe.com which decisively raised the bar for digital news design with its embrace of responsive design...

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