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Thank you ZOLL Medical Corporation for being the major sponsor of the 2020 New England Newspaper Convention, held in Boston on Feb. 7-8, 2020. Thank you to all the sponsors, we could not have done it without your support!
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Tiffany Tan is a VTDigger reporter covering southern Vermont, substance use disorder and the criminal justice system. She previously reported on the police and courts for the Bennington Banner (Vermont). Before that, she held a similar beat at the Rapid City Journal...
‘The press is to serve the governed, not the governors.’
-- Jane Mayer, Writer, The New Yorker
NEFAC award recipients rewarded for doggedly seeking public records, truth
By Rebekah Patton
Bulletin Correspondent
Recipients of honors at the New England First Amendment Coalition’s 2018 awards luncheon did not err on the side of caution...
Bill Kole, New England editor for The Associated Press, oversees daily and enterprise coverage of all six states. A longtime former AP foreign correspondent, he has reported extensively on terrorism, corruption, immigration and human trafficking from Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna and Eastern Europe. Bill worked for newspapers in Michigan and...
Laura Koch is the senior graphic designer at Metro Creative Graphics. She holds a BA in Communication but followed her artistic passion to start her career as a graphic designer for two newspapers in her hometown of Buffalo, NY. In 2008 she relocated to NYC and landed a graphic...
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Michael Gagne is a native of Woonsocket, R.I., who has been covering local government and education since 2012 in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Michael currently covers local government in the city of Danbury and the town of Brookfield in Connecticut for...
Mike Blinder has been in love with media his entire life. In high school he held part time jobs as an intern at WPEN radio in Philadelphia and at Radio Shack where he sold the 1st generation of home computers.
Jerry Berger had a passion for Statehouse reporting from the start of his journalism career at a small daily newspaper, checking in with area legislators on key issues facing Beacon Hill and their local impact. He took that interest along with him to United Press International, where he reported...