The New England Newspaper & Press Association will hold their annual Winter Convention on February 7-8, 2020 at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel. The convention brings in approximately 500 media industry professionals who can attend more than 25 sessions over the two-day period.A special Academic Sponsorship package...
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By Julia Hutchins Bulletin Correspondent Sexual assault has become an increasingly prevalent topic in the news, especially with the current #metoo movement. That doesn’t make it any easier to write about or to talk to people about, as panelists discussed at a session on “Reporting on Sexual Assault: The journalistic, emotional...

Kristen Hare

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...

Link McKie

Link McKie has been a longtime newspaperman who in recent years added consulting and teaching to his career. His career began in 1970 as a regional reporter for the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Mass. In 20 years there, he was also a general assignment reporter; city government reporter...

Mike Blinder

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.

Tom Kearney

Tom Kearney has been a Stowe Reporter since 2005; managing editor; also in charge of overhauling the news coverage and presentation of the weeklies the company acquired since 2015 — the News & Citizen of Morrisville, The Other Paper of South Burlington,...

Barbara Walsh

Barbara Walsh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked for newspapers in Ireland, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Florida. While working at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, Walsh reported on first-degree killer William Horton Jr. and Massachusetts' flawed prison furlough system. The series changed state sentencing laws and won a...

Will Katcher

Will Katcher is a reporter for MassLive in the Pioneer Valley covering breaking news and the city of Northampton. He is a proud graduate of the University of Massachusett Amherst and a devout live music fan. You can reach him at wkatcher@masslive.com. He can be followed on Twitter at...
‘The people who I have found to be the sharpest and most interesting are people who have moved around a lot ... Conversely the people who have been the worst to work with are people who went to one place and stayed there. I think you take a job...