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 attracts local-subject editorials from a wide variety of newspapers in New England, regardless of circulation size and frequency of publication.
About the Allan B. Rogers Editorial Award
The Providence Journal
Providence, RI
“A fraud, a farce, a dog-and-pony show”
by Ed Achorn
The Sun
Lowell, MA
“Chelmsford’s had enough of Tiano”
by David McArdle
The Patriot Ledger
Quincy, MA
“Addiction”
by Amy MacKinnon
The Newtown Bee
Newtown, CT
“Answering for Our Town”
by Curtiss Clark
Cape Cod Times
Hyannis, MA
“An Age-old Challenge”
by William Mills
The Eagle-Tribune
North Andover, MA
“Civil service plumbs new depths of absurdity”
by Ken Johnson