Thank you again to those that participated in the New England Better Newspaper Competition! The competition was quite strong and included 2,000 entries this year.
Notifications of award winners were sent a few weeks ago. If you have any questions, please contact Linda Conway at l.conway@nenpa.com.
The awards will be presented...
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...
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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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Emily Sweeney covers local news and writes "Blotter Tales," a weekly column that appears in the Metro section every Sunday, and "Cold Case Files," a new series and newsletter about unsolved crimes.
Her areas of expertise include history, crime, and...
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...
Greg Saulmon is assistant managing editor at The Republican in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he manages coverage ranging from breaking news to investigative projects.
With a strong focus on multimedia work, Saulmon has won reporting, video and photography awards from...
Dr. Lara Salahi is an award-winning health journalist, author, and Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. She studies news-academic partnerships as a sustainable business model for local news. She and her co-researcher coined the term “news-academic partnerships,” which is now...
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Allie Ginwala has been the audience engagement editor for the Concord Monitor since March 2021. She manages the opinion section and oversees various community and audience engagement initiatives including the Monitor's reader advisory board, annual Impact Report, the News for Your Neighbor...
I served as a photojournalist at the St Louis Post-Dispatch for 20 years. For 15 of those years I was director of photography and Asst managing editor for technology. I am a five-time Pulitzer Nominee for photojournalism - lost all those times making me a 5-time loser.
I left the...