Publick Occurrences Award
This award recognizes the very best work that New England newspapers produce each year – whether it’s individual or team stories, series, spot news coverage, columns or photojournalism that ran in print and/or online. NENPA presents up to 16 Publick Occurrences awards to member newspapers annually.
The award was established in 1990 to recognize individual and team merit at New England newspapers to mark the 300th anniversary of the founding of Publick Occurrences, the first newspaper published in America. Four days after it appeared in Boston in 1690, Publick Occurrences was suppressed by the royal governor.
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2011 Publick Occurrences Award Winners for Outstanding Journalism
The Patriot Ledger
"Fear at the Door"
The Eagle-Tribune
"Poverty Pays: Community Action"
Republican-American
"Connecticut's Wage Gap"
The Standard-Times
"Fishing Frustration"
Cape Cod Times
"Pills That Kill"
The Sun
"Inside the War Zone"
The Herald News
"State of the City Coverage"
Concord Monitor
"My Epidemic"
Valley News
"Hartford Police Abuse"
Townsend Times
"Billy Boy"
Groton Landmark
"Old homestead lost to fire"
South County Independent
"Community Outraged"
The Forecaster
"Children Held Down"
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
"Tea Party Seeks Wide Influence"
Vineyard Gazette
"Menemsha Fire"
Entries for the Publick Occurrences awards must be submitted by the end of June. The awards are presented at the NENPA Fall Conference in October.
For more information, please contact:
Crystal Serret
c.serret@nenpa.com
p: 781.320.8042
f: 781.320.8055