Gene Policinski First Amendment

For our freedoms, is a ‘C+’ grade good enough?

Gene Policinski, inside the First Amendment Gene Policinski is chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and senior vice president of the Institute’s First Amendment Center....

The clock is ticking – final New England Newspaper Awards deadline this Friday!

We know many of you asked for more time to complete your entries for the New England Newspaper Awards. Good news: you have it—but...

Bangor Daily News Featured By News Impact Project

Jennifer Peters | News Media Alliance | January 21, 2020“A new subscriber called to tell us that she subscribed because of this...

Press Forward awards $20 million to 205 local news outlets – including 18 in...

Two hundred and five small local news outlets, one in every U.S. state, including 18 in New England will receive a share of $20...

2020 Better Newspaper Competition Award Programs With Audio

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the two days of our New England Newspaper Convention. We are still working on publishing the...

Advertisers prepare for an uncertain summer

DIGIDAY | Seb Joseph | June 10, 2020 The third quarter in the most normal of times is a...

Turning your design around

Sometimes a design just goes stale. Over the course of even just a few years, inconsistencies creep in, color use gets out...

The Boston Globe names NPR news chief Nancy Barnes as its next editor

The Boston Globe announced on November 14 that Nancy Barnes would be its next editor, tapping a deeply experienced journalist who has run major metropolitan...
Vermont standard fire photo by eric francis

Vermont Standard building destroyed by fire

On Monday, July 16, an early morning fire destroyed the building that houses The Vermont Standard newspaper, in Woodstock, VT. In addition to the Standard...

Objectivity: a noble idea that requires a process

Bart Pfankuch is the content director and an investigative reporter for South Dakota News Watch. Contact him at bart.pfankuch@sdnewswatch.org