Allan B. Rogers Editorial Award

About the Allan B. Rogers Editorial Award

This award recognizes the best editorial of the year in New England, and it honors the former editor of The Eagle-Tribune (North Andover, MA) who died in 1964 at the age of 31. The competition is open to local subject editorials from a wide variety of newspapers in New England, regardless of circulation size and frequency of publication.

Entries for the 2020 award must have been published between June 1, 2019 and May 31, 2020. There is a fee of $99 per entry.

Entry submission is closed for 2020. For more information please contact Linda Conway at l.conway@nenpa.com.

The winners will be honored at the New England Newspaper Conference, which will be held remotely on November 17, 18 and 19, 2020.

2019 Allan B. Rogers Editorial Award

The Standard-Times New Bedford, MA

“Children crossing border should be kept with parents” by Jack Spillane

The 2019 Allan B. Rogers Editorial Award goes to Jack Spillane, editorial page editor of The Standard-Times in New Bedford, Mass. Spillane’s award-winning editorial, “Children crossing border should be kept with parents,” brings home the heartrending impact of the Trump Administration’s immigration policies by focusing on a local Guatemalan boy and his mother as their husband and father sits in a Georgia jail awaiting deportation. Spillane writes with power and clarity, making a compassionate appeal that while immigration reform efforts grind on, the rending apart of nuclear families must stop immediately. “That is a heinous policy,” he writes, “and not worthy of America.”