Penelope “Penny” Overton writes about the lobster and marijuana industries for the Portland Press Herald, Maine’s biggest daily newspaper. She joined the paper in 2016 as a business and enterprise reporter, and added the newly created marijuana beat in 2018, right after...
Autumn Phillips is Managing Editor of The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C. She previously served as Executive Editor of the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa, and the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho. Her work has been recognized twice by Editor &...
Every challenge is an opportunity, and I know that sounds like a cliché, but that’s where most new industries, or new companies, or new successes, come from. (It) is when someone picks a new challenge and says, “How do I do that differently than what other people are doing?”...
Kimberly Kirchner is Editor of The Herbalist, a quarterly magazine covering cannabis news and culture in Western Massachusetts published by New England Newspapers Inc. Between issues, she serves as Special Sections Editor for the company’s four newspapers, overseeing content creation, design and...
We're excited to see everyone at the 2020 New England Newspaper Convention this week, Friday, Feb. 7 and Saturday, Feb. 8 at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel.
Online registration is now closed but if you would like to still attend the event, please...
John Voket has primarily worked in journalism, broadcasting and communications all his life, holding positions as an Associated Press stringer; a reporter, designer and editor for numerous community papers in Connecticut; and is currently Editor of The Newtown Bee serving Newtown and Sandy Hook, CT.
In his tenure with “The...
Steph Solis covers state government and immigration for MassLive. She has written about ICE courthouse arrests, efforts to deport sick foreign-born children who had deferred action and the investigation into Registry of Motor Vehicles practices.
The annual New England Newspaper Convention will be held May 1-6, 2023.
We’ll be shaking things up a bit this year with a new location and schedule. To be sensitive to everyone’s time—we’re offering several virtual sessions May 1-4 and presenting the in-person workshops, roundtable discussions, trade show, and celebratory...
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Dan Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University, a nationally known media commentator, and a 2019 winner of the Yankee Quill Award. In addition to “What Works in Community News,” he is the author of two other books about the...
Richard Watts is a member of the NENPA Board of Directors and the founder of the Center for Community News, Co-Director of the Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program at the University of Vermont and coordinator of the Community News Service – a state-wide, multi-outlet academic-news partnership with a mission to provide content to...