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Ethan Genter is the news editor at the Vineyard Gazette. He has covered local government, the fishing industry, and tourism in coastal New England since 2014.
Reuben Fischer-Baum is an editor on the graphics team at The Washington Post, where he leads a team of reporters focused on trackers and reader tools. He previously worked as a visual journalist at FiveThirtyEight and Deadspin and has taught data visualization at Parsons School of Design. He was...
Greg has led his own companies, directed digital advertising sales at major media chains, co-founded one of the nation’s largest travel guide companies, helped launch an alternative newsweekly and designed interactive kiosks for museums, universities, and IBM. Greg is one of the founding members of ITEGA (Information Trust Exchange...
The winners and the audience at the New England First Amendment Coalition’s awards luncheon Friday, Feb. 23, are shown above, clockwise from top left: Todd Wallack, an investigative reporter with The Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team, who received the Michael Donoghue Freedom of Information Award; Jane Mayer, a writer for...
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Gary Lavariere is a forward-thinking leader who possesses a wealth of knowledge relative to data and digital strategies that drive success. He is currently the Chief Revenue Officer overseeing the business unit at New England Newspapers, Inc. (NENI). In his seven years...
Kristen Hare covers the local news industry and teaches local journalists as a faculty member for the Poynter Institute. She also writes a weekly feature obituary for the Tampa Bay Times and is the author of all three editions of "100 Things to do in Tampa Bay Before You...
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...
George Arwady has been Publisher and CEO of The Republican newspaper since January 2010. Arwady spent most of his professional career as an editor and publisher in Michigan and New Jersey. He has chaired, is former chair and serves on the board of the Economic Development Council of Western...
Focus on people, sources
two keys to enlivening
local government coverage
By Nadine El-Bawab
Bulletin Correspondent
Even though reader interest in local government coverage has waned, it is still important for readers and an important obligation of journalists, according to panelists at the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s recent winter convention. The panelists...