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...
On April 29, 2022, during the NENPA convention in Boston, attendees were introduced to the concept of Funding Journalism with Innovative News Labs and how they work to provide greater focus on specific communities and local issues that many news outlets overlook.
The panel included Frank Mungeam, Chief Innovation Officer,...
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...
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Mike is a senior lecturer at the University of Illinois-Chicago and founder of JournalistsToolbox.ai, a free website featuring AI tools and training videos. He’s the author of two books: “Data + Journalism” (Routledge, 2023) and “Journalist’s Toolbox Handbook” (Routledge 2024).
Mike spent seven...
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Jeff Potter has been working in and around newspapers since 1983 and, for more than 15 years, has edited and designed The Commons (commonsnews.org), an award-winning nonprofit community newspaper in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he has produced almost 12,000 pages with InDesign. Separately, he...
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Dugan Arnett is an investigative reporter on The Boston Globe's quick strike projects team. Since joining the team in 2021, his work has spanned a variety of subjects with a focus on government accountability, policing, and the criminal justice system. In 2021,...
Angie Drobnic Holan is the editor-in-chief of PolitiFact. She has extensive experience fact-checking the presidency, Congress and political campaigns, and was a reporter on the PolitiFact team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She serves on the advisory board of the International Fact-Checking Network.
She holds a...
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Rich Saltzberg is a freelance journalist who works in regional planning in Dukes County. He is a former reporter for the Martha’s Vineyard Times. Saltzberg is a two-time NENPA Reporter of the Year and a three-time first-place winner of the NENPA Right-To-Know...
Charles Sennott is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Editor of The GroundTruth Project. He is an award-winning correspondent, best-selling author and editor with 30 years of experience in international, national and local journalism.
A leading social entrepreneur in new media, Sennott started GroundTruth in 2014 and in 2017 launched...