New England High School Journalism Collaborative Spring Mixer on Thursday, April 25
NEACE Spring Conference May 5-6 at the Hotel Northampton in Northampton, MA
Thanks to Everyone Who Made the New England Newspaper Convention a Success!
SPJ Region 1 Conference April 19-20 at Emerson College
Better Newspaper Competition Award Presentations and Photos from March 23
News Digest
Student News
Awards & Honors
Training
Whether you are expanding your existing coverage or starting from scratch, developing a new beat can be challenging. New relationships need to be formed. Familiarity with different communities may be required. Trust needs to be built. Stories need to be found.
By attending this class, you’ll learn:
• How to identify key sources on your new beat and develop relationships with them over time.
• How to find the authoritative voice on a complicated beat to get exclusives and drive coverage.
• How to use social media to identify new stories and find sources within your beat without having a huge following.
Instructor: Alexa Gagosz, The Boston Globe
The New England First Amendment Coalition launched in 2020 a monthly educational series featuring short, practical lessons on journalism and the First Amendment.
The goal of the program — called “30 Minute Skills” — is to provide reporters and other citizens knowledge they can use immediately in newsgathering, data collection, storytelling and other areas of journalism and First Amendment law.
The lessons are provided in a 30-minute format to accommodate the demanding schedules faced by many working in New England newsrooms. The program is free and open to the public. Registration for each lesson is required.
30 Minute Skills is supported in part by the Estate of Gloria Negri, the late trailblazing journalist who spent more than 50 years at The Boston Globe.
As threats against journalists become increasingly common, reporters must take measures to protect themselves while newsgathering. This lesson will focus on online risks and how they can be mitigated.
By attending this class, you’ll learn:
• The necessities for protecting your electronic devices, such as encryption, 2FA, passwords and phishing awareness.
• How to reduce the risk of doxxing.
• How to develop best practices for social media when used for both personal and professional purposes.
Instructor: Stephanie Sugars, U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
The New England First Amendment Coalition launched in 2020 a monthly educational series featuring short, practical lessons on journalism and the First Amendment.
The goal of the program — called “30 Minute Skills” — is to provide reporters and other citizens knowledge they can use immediately in newsgathering, data collection, storytelling and other areas of journalism and First Amendment law.
The lessons are provided in a 30-minute format to accommodate the demanding schedules faced by many working in New England newsrooms. The program is free and open to the public. Registration for each lesson is required.
30 Minute Skills is supported in part by the Estate of Gloria Negri, the late trailblazing journalist who spent more than 50 years at The Boston Globe.
Columnists & Commentary
New England Job Post Of The Week
Full-Time Weekend and Copy Editor
The Keene Sentinel is looking for a full-time copy and weekend editor to join the newsroom team serving communities in southwestern New Hampshire. We are an independent, digital-first news organization that has been locally owned since its founding in 1799, and we publish both online and six days a week in print. Our newsroom is committed to building trust with our readers and values solid enterprise and solutions-oriented journalism in service to our region, and the copy editor will be an integral part of a team-oriented news staff pursuing that mission. The copy editor will edit local news stories and wire content, as well as layout pages for the print edition of the paper. The editor will also direct any breaking news coverage during the weekend and post content on social media. Some weekend shifts will include reporting duties.
HEADLINERS
Executive Editor
Linda Conway
l.conway@nenpa.com
781-281-7648
Publication Manager
Tara Cleary
t.cleary@nenpa.com
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Woburn, MA 01801-9998