Resolve to be accessible, stay relevant
Surviving in today’s fractured media landscape depends on your ability to identify, collect and deliver the relevant community news. That job becomes more challenging...
Jeneé Osterheldt of The Boston Globe Wins Editorial Opinion Award
On April 5 the News Leaders Association (NLA) announced the winners of the 2021 NLA Awards for distinguished journalism and leadership. The NLA...
Listening to the voices in your head
Bart Pfankuch is an investigative reporter for South Dakota News Watch. Write to him at bart.pfankuch@sdnewswatch.org.
COVID-19: Getting good information as virus crisis unfolds
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. He can be reached at gpolicinski@freedomforum.org, or follow...
Podcasts enhance newspaper content
Podcasts can – and should –
enhance newspaper content
By Rebekah Patton
Bulletin Correspondent
In the push to expand storytelling beyond print, podcasting has become increasingly...
Award Winners – Better Newspaper Competition
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Call for coordinated editorials – raising our collective voice during Sunshine Week
As journalists, we rely on open government and freedom of information principles to keep the public informed...
2025 UVM Center for Community News Benchmark Study on Student Reporting Programs
The Center for Community News at UVM annual benchmark study reveals significant growth in university-led reporting programs in 2025. Among the more than 200...
‘Enemies of the people?’ Simply, plainly – ‘no.’
As plainly and clearly as one can say or write this:
Journalism and journalists are not "enemies of the people."
A free press brings us the...
A Partisan Future for Local News?
Local news in America has long been widely trusted, and widely seen as objective. But as traditional local papers struggle, there have...