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Albert B. Southwick

Albert B. Southwick

Telegram & Gazette

Albert B. Southwick is a treasure, a man of letters who thinks and cares deeply, whose editorials and bylined perspectives have appeared in the editorial pages of the Telegram & Gazette over a span of more than 60 years, and whose work has also appeared in publications ranging from editorials in The Saturday Evening Post to “Topics of the Times” in The New York Times. He has also published 14 books and co-authored two opera librettos. His first story appeared in the Worcester Telegram in the summer of 1941, and his newspaper career might have blossomed then, but Pearl Harbor would change everything. After four years of service in the Navy during World War II, he earned his master’s degree and worked briefly as a reporter for the Providence Journal. He returned to the Worcester Telegram in 1952 as an editorial writer eventually becoming the chief editorial writer. He worked in that role until his retirement in 1986. But “retirement” did not mean an end to writing – at age 96, he still writes a weekly column for the newspaper.

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Eliot White

Eliot White

The Record-Journal

Eliot White is the definition of what a family-owned newspaper company leader should be. As the president and publisher of The Record-Journal Publishing Company, a now 150-year-old newspaper company and the fourth generation of company leadership, he is a polished professional, a humble yet strong and dynamic leader, a reasonable and fair business person and a truly dedicated family man. Eliot exemplifies the mission of the company through informing the public, supporting the community, helping local business grow and providing a family culture for employees to thrive. In an industry that is rapidly changing, Eliot has struck the perfect balance between carrying on the legacy and tradition of previous generations while leading and supporting all the necessary changes for the company to evolve into a modern, cutting-edge media company.

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Bob Ryan

Bob Ryan

The Boston Globe

Bob Ryan is a true Boston newspaper institution. He came to Boston as a freshman at Boston College in the 1960s.

He first started writing for the Globe in the spring of 1968 and (with the exception of a two-year stint in local television) remained a fixture in the Globe sports section until his formal retirement from his position as a columnist in 2012. In “retirement” Bob still writes more columns than may Globe staffers and his strong and institutional memory continue to inform and entertain Globe readers. Ryan left his mark, and continues to leave his mark, on the minds of newspaper readers. And he has done it for almost a half century.

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Hall of Fame

NENPA maintains a special place for newspaper professionals whose talent, hard work and exceptional accomplishments provide inspiration to all New England Journalists. More than 100 individuals have been singled out over the past 50 years as industry heroes that everyone who works at a newspaper can look up to while admiring their remarkable careers.

Please join us to honor the newest inductees to the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame:

  • William T. Clew, Telegram & Gazette and Catholic Free Press, MA
  • Timothy Cotter, The Day, New London, CT
  • Peter Gelzinis, Boston (MA) Herald
  • Lincoln McKie Jr., Journalist and journalism teacher, MA
  • Russel Pergament, TAB Newspapers, Boston, MA
  • Lisa Tuite, Boston (MA) Globe

Friday, Feb 23
6:30pm Cocktail Reception
7pm Dinner and Ceremony

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Jason Feifer, Keynote Speaker

Jason Feifer is the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, and host of two podcasts: Problem Solvers, about entrepreneurs solving unexpected problems in their business, and Pessimists Archive, a history of unfounded fears of technology. He began his career in Massachusetts community newspapers, The Gardner News and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, and has also been an editor at Men’s Health, Fast Company, Maxim, and Boston magazine. He’s written about business and technology for the Washington Post, Slate, New York, and others. A novel he co-wrote with his wife, Mr. Nice Guy, will come out in October, 2018, from St. Martins Press. Jason lives in Brooklyn, and is on Twitter and Instagram at @heyfeifer.

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Lauren Appelbaum

Lauren Appelbaum is the Director of Communications at RespectAbility, a nonprofit organization fighting stigmas and advancing opportunities for and with people with disabilities. She brings more than 10 years of experience in strategic and crisis communications, writing, video and web production, news gathering and social media to the disability agenda. Previously she was a digital researcher with the NBC News political unit, where she worked with Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell.

Appelbaum has published hundreds of articles on the intersection of disability, employment, Hollywood and politics. The talent behind www.TheRespectAbilityReport.org and #RespectTheAbility, she is a champion for people with disabilities. The#RespectTheAbility campaign highlights model employers that demonstrate how hiring workers with disabilities benefits the employer, the employee and society. The campaign’s goal is to erase negative and untrue stigmas associated with hiring people with disabilities.

Appelbaum currently oversees RespectAbility’s outreach to Hollywood to stand up against ableism and other prejudice – while promoting positive, accurate, diverse and inclusive media portrayals on TV and in film. She also supervises several Fellows in communications and social media through RespectAbility’s Fellowship Program. During the 2016 election season, Appelbaum led a team of Communications Fellows, which interviewed all of the presidential candidates about the importance disability employment, reporting all interviews via accessible video and articles in The RespectAbility Report.

Outside of work, Appelbaum is active in community theater and has served as a director, stage manager and rehearsal assistant for more than a dozen musicals and plays. Having organized volunteer ASL interpreters and coordinated ADA seating at performances, as well as directing a nonverbal actor with cerebral palsy who uses a wheelchair, she understands first-hand the importance of inclusion of both performers and others with disabilities.

Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, Appelbaum has a master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University and undergraduate degrees from Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary. She also serves on several national and local nonprofit boards. You can reach her at LaurenA@RespectAbility.org or on Twitter @laurenappelbaum.

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Amy Callahan

Amy Callahan – a full professor in the English Department and the coordinator of the Liberal Arts: Journalism/Communication Program at Northern Essex Community College. She is the former chair of the Communication Arts Department. For ten years she also advised the college’s award-winning student newspaper, the NECC Observer. Under her guidance the newspaper was a 2003 national finalist for the Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker Award and also received several Gold Medalist certificates from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

Before joining the NECC faculty in 2000, Professor Callahan was a journalist and editor for ten years. She was a correspondent for The Boston Globe and a staff writer for the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram and the Vineyard Gazette, where her work received awards from the New England Press Association. Working in the field of public relations, she was also managing editor of the Columbia University Record, published by Columbia University’s Office of Public Affairs in New York City.

Professor Callahan holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Northeastern University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in writing (creative nonfiction) from Columbia University‘s School of the Arts.[/vc_column_text]

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B.J. Roche

B.J. Roche is a senior lecturer who teaches multimedia reporting, magazine writing and media entrepreneurship, as well as The Journalism Launchpad, a career-prep class for journalism majors. She also serves as internship coordinator, and as advisor to Amherstwire.com, the student-run digital publication that serves as a learning lab for journalism students. In 2017, “the Wire” won  “Best Website” award from the College Media Association.

For more than two decades, B.J. served as western Massachusetts correspondent for The Boston Globe and the Boston Globe magazine. For six years, she wrote a weekly column for the Boston Sunday Globe New England section, and her blog Fiftyshift, a column about life after 50, appeared for two years on Boston.com Community Voices. She’s also written for Design New England, Yankee Magazine, and Commonwealth Magazine.

She has also written extensively about travel for The Boston Globe and other publications, including chapters on Massachusetts for two travel guides: Hidden New England and the Berlitz Guide to New England.

B.J. was named  2017 New England Journalism Educator of the Year by the New England Newspaper and Press Association. In 2013, she received the  Outstanding Teacher Award from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.  She was named as a Coleman Fellow for the teaching of entrepreneurship in 2015. She also was selected as a fellow for the Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute at the Cronkite School in 2013.

She is a graduate of UMass Amherst, and lives with her family in a small hilltown in Franklin County. A sampling of her wide-ranging work can be found on her website.

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Joshua Scacco

Joshua M. Scacco (PhD, The University of Texas at Austin) is an Assistant Professor of Media Theory & Politics in the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University. He also serves as a Research Associate for the Center for Media Engagement (CME). He is interested broadly in the communicative role elites and organizations, including political leaders, journalists, and news outlets, play in American political life.

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Robert C. Holt lll

I am a graduate of the University of Missouri with a BS in Education/Paleobotany. I received a ROTC commission in the US ARMY in Armor and served during the Viet Nam conflict in Armored Cavalry. I survived that nightmare.

After teaching life science for two years in Kirkwood, MO., I became a photo lab technician at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Promoted to photojournalist, and then director of photography, I was named director of imaging technology in 1981. I was charged with control of all imaging creation through press. During my tenure at the Post, I defined and managed the transition from traditional production of color and text on page into full color pagination with 1 hours inter-edition deadlines for color imaging.

I was hired in 1989 by Scitex Inc., Herzelia, Isreal and served as international director of industry marketing for news publishers both newspapers and magazines. During my tenure at Scitex, my team converted over 175 major publications, worldwide, from traditional proceses to full page pagination with 1 hour color deadlines and full page pagination.

After leaving Scitex America in 1996, I formed by own consulting company providing product and marketing assistance to many major newspaper and magazine companies.

I am a five-time Pulitzer Nominee in photojournalism and have received multiple awards from both the NFL and Major League Baseball.

I currently shoot weddings, parties and whatever commercial photography I can get. As non-photojournalist now, I enjoy shooting as people welcome me to their event and are glad I am there. In the past I was generally not welcome and got pushed, shoved, punched or my favorite, being jabbed in the kidney with a night stick by some over-zealous cop trying to protect whomever from the media… I don’t miss that.

I am avid photographer, enjoy fly-fishing skeet shooting and life in general. My wife, Gabrielle DeMichele and I live in Chesterfield, Missouri near St. Louis.

 

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