Tell them why – and sell more
Like some other kids, I learned how to drive before taking the drivers’ education class in high school. My father took me to the...
Staying a step ahead of your editors
Jim Stasiowski
Writing
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Make it a mantra: ‘Get one more source’
Bart Pfankuch is an investigative reporter for South Dakota News Watch, online at sdnewswatch.org. Email him at bart.pfankuch@sdnewswatch.org
Defending all of us by defending a free press
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. He can be reached atgpolicinski@freedomforum.org, or follow...
January Obituaries 2020
CONNECTICUT
Forrest Palmer
Andrew Thomas McCarthy Jr.
MAINE
None reported
MASSACHUSETTS
Timothy Baker Blodgett
Barbara Krause Rawson Brouker
Michael Burke
John Chmael
Marguerite (Chandler) Connolly
Joanne Wilder Davis
Timothy Becker Gassert
Herbert P. McMeekin
Robert E. Millard
Jean Scarborough
NEW...
A salute to those who wave the editorial banner
Last summer’s Grassroots Editor still sits in my stack of journalism publications. The edition announced the Golden Quill winners in annual competition...
NENPA lends help to Radically Rural
The New England Newspaper and Press Association assisted with Radically Rural’s community journalism program run by The Keene Sentinel on Sept. 22-23.
Each year, the...
How AI-Powered Tools Could Help Revive Journalism
Robert Weissgraeber | Forbes | January 3, 2019
I’m here to offer some hope, albeit from an unlikely place....
Digging deeper: How to find opportunities (and time) to go in-depth
Bart Pfankuch is the content director for South Dakota News Watch, an online public-service journalism group. He can be reached...
‘Be nice’ is not needed during crisis — but a free press is
“Be nice” — two words not found anywhere among the 45 words of the First Amendment. Also not found: “positive,” or “get ya”...








