We have received so many requests for an extension this week that we are extending the deadline to enter the Better Newspaper Competition until Monday, December 12.

This gives you an extra 10 days to prepare your entries and it is after the upcoming New England Newspaper Conference which will be held virtually on December 8.

This conference has a broad, strategic focus, on the state and future of the industry. It is great content for students and faculty, as they prepare to enter the industry or are teaching about it. We have created a special ticket price for colleges and universities to pay a flat rate of $95, which will give access to any and all faculty and students that would like to attend!

This is the ticket link for the academic offer:

https://nenpa.tradewing.com/conference/ytpqRbq4mu9Gh3a4g?ticketLinkId=3a4ffa7d-07e6-481a-ab74-d683117721d9

This is a link to the conference program:

https://www.nenpa.com/program-announced-for-december-8-online-new-england-newspaper-conference/

Use the link above to purchase the group ticket. After you have registered I will contact you for a list of whom you want to include in your group.

In this inaugural year, all schools may enter, regardless of membership status, and submit up to 10 entries for a low flat fee of only $100. Click here, or the link below, for information on the expanded benefits of Academic Membership.

Work published by student newspapers in print and/or online during the contest year, August 1, 2021, to July 31, 2022, is eligible for this competition.

Reminder – the association code to access the contest portal is NENPA and both the email and password fields are case-sensitive.

Link to contest platform:

https://newspapercontest.com/Contests/NewEnglandNewspaperandPressAssociation.aspx

Download the information packet for all the information necessary to prepare your entries including a list of competitive categories, complete rules and guidelines, and criteria that each contest category will be judged upon.

The deadline to submit entries is Monday, December 12, 2022.

Awards will be presented during the annual New England Newspaper Convention, which will be held in Spring 2023 (date and location to be announced).

We encourage you to participate in this year’s Better Newspaper Competition to recognize your students’ best work, compete with peers, and compare your coverage and publication.

For further information please contact students@nenpa.com.

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We have received so many requests for an extension this week that we are extending the deadline to enter the Better Newspaper Competition until Monday, December 12.

This gives you an extra 10 days to prepare your entries and it is after the upcoming New England Newspaper Conference on December 8. Learn more about the program, featuring discussions with nationally known experts about the state and future of the industry, and register for the conference at this link.

Reminder – the association code to access the contest portal is NENPA and you’ll need to register for the platform even though you may have been registered last year (the system gets wiped clean between contests.) Also, both the email and password fields are case-sensitive.

Link to contest platform:

https://newspapercontest.com/Contests/NewEnglandNewspaperandPressAssociation.aspx

Work published by NENPA member news organizations during the contest year, August 1, 2021, to July 31, 2022, is eligible for this competition.

The competition has three divisions:

Download the information packets and you will find all of the information necessary to prepare your entries, including a list of competitive categories, complete rules and guidelines, and the criteria that each contest category will be judged upon.

You can find additional information on preparing entries – such as how to make PDF files smaller, extract particular pages, and how-to combine several PDF files – on the Frequently Asked Questions page at the end of the packets.

Awards will be presented during the annual New England Newspaper Convention, which will be held in Spring 2023 (date and location to be announced).

New categories for 2022 include Best Website Home Page and Energy Reporting, and a few categories have been modified (see detailed categories).

We encourage you to participate in this year’s Better Newspaper Competition, the largest and most comprehensive journalism recognition program in New England, to show off your best work, reward and recognize your staff, and share ideas so we can learn from each other!

The new deadline to submit entries is on Monday, December 12, 2022.

For further information please contact Linda Conway, at l.conway@nenpa.com.

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Jim Friedlich, CEO of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, the non-profit owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Spotlight PA, will discuss lessons and methods for sustaining local news through partnership, donor support, and digital transformation.

The need to create a new business model for the journalism industry became even more apparent during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journalism researchers, Teri Finneman, Associate Professor/Founder, University of Kansas/The Eudora Times, and Joey Young, Owner / Publisher, Kansas Publishing Ventures have spent the past year collecting data from rural publishers and rural residents to create a proposed new model that is now in the experimental phase in Kansas. Come and learn about their findings to get ideas of what could work for you.

Presentation of the annual Publick Occurrences Awards, recognizing the finest work that New England newspapers produce each year in individual or team stories, series, spot news coverage, columns, or photojournalism that ran in print and/or online.

Steven Waldman is the founder and president of Rebuild Local News, an organization that advocates for smart public policies for the future of the local press. He will be joined by Rebuild Local News manager for policy development, Anna Brugmann, to discuss public programs, such as those that leverage American Rescue Plan Act funds and municipal advertising budgets, that support local news outlets with funding that is already in local budgets.

In your community, there are people who want to address social issues such as health, literacy, safety, and more. Vicki Whiting has more than 20 years of experience helping hundreds of newspapers develop partnerships that produce significant revenue while also serving the community by expanding a newspaper’s revenue models to include transformational models in addition to transactional ones.

Presentation of the annual Allan B. Rogers Editorial Award, New England First Amendment Award, AP Sevellon Brown NE Journalist of the Year, Bob Wallack Community Journalism Award, and the New England Newspaper of the Year Awards.

If you have any issues logging in, get an error message when trying to log in the first time, have problems purchasing tickets, or have other colleagues or staff members that need to be added to the NENPA community please contact Tara Cleary at t.cleary@nenpa.com.

If your newspaper isn’t a current member, you will still be able to request access to the online community and purchase tickets to an event at the non-member rate.