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NEFAC Begins 2023 with New Leadership and Expanded Executive Committee

The New England First Amendment Coalition is pleased to announce the election of attorney Gregory V. Sullivan, long-time media counsel, and First Amendment professor, as its new president.

Sullivan succeeds Karen Bordeleau, formerly executive editor at The Providence Journal, who will continue to serve on NEFAC’s Board of Directors.

“We are indebted to Karen and her work as president over the last several years,” said Justin Silverman, NEFAC’s executive director. “We look forward to Greg building on the momentum she helped create and steering us in the years to come.”

A member of NEFAC’s Board of Directors since 2010, Sullivan has served as counsel for the Union Leader Corporation for more than 40 years. He has represented Union Leader and many other media organizations regarding First Amendment issues in federal and state courts.

Read more at New England First Amendment Coalition

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Connecticut Health Investigative Team (C-HIT) closes down at the end of December

The non-profit Connecticut Health Investigative Team (C-HIT) closed down at the end of December, concluding impactful years of award-winning journalism (including NENPA Publick Occurrences Awards in 2021 and 2022) that was regularly featured on the front pages (print and digital) of a multitude of publications across the state.  From day one, the online publication and news service was “dedicated to producing original, responsible, in-depth journalism on issues of health and safety, in Connecticut and the surrounding region.”

Co-founder Lynne DeLucia announced last month plans to retire and cease publication of C-HIT, which broke new ground when the endeavor was launched, and quickly gained acclaim for its investigative stories and impact in bringing together journalism veterans and those aspiring to the field – as well as reporting noteworthy stories that advanced the public interest.

DeLucia has been a working journalist in Connecticut for nearly a half-century, including time at the New Haven Register (including reporting from the State Capitol) and as assistant managing editor of Hartford Courant.

Read more at CT by the Numbers

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New year, new start with NENPA U January webinars!

NENPA University provides a wide assortment of professional development opportunities throughout the year – we produce webinars in-house, and we partner with other organizations to address critical issues relevant to the news industry. Topics include reporting, editing, free speech, photojournalism, advertising, circulation, promotion, production, revenue, and more!

We are starting 2023 with a release of video replays from our recent New England Newspaper Conference, along with webinars produced by our partner, Online Media Campus.

The Conference replays will be available to play inside the NENPA Member Community at the day and time on the event listing, and they do not require advance registration. Save the “Event link” in your calendar to access the presentations on or after the release dates.

If you have suggestions for topics, would like to be contacted about future workshops, or need any assistance accessing the NENPA Member Community or Online Media Campus, please contact Tara Cleary at t.cleary@nenpa.com.

Thursday, Jan. 5 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
NENPA U: New Models for Sustainable Local Newspapers
This presentation was recorded during the New England Newspaper Conference on December 8, 2022. 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. This replay is hosted inside the NENPA Member Community and doesn’t require advance registration.
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Thursday, Jan. 12 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
NENPA U: Revenue & Readership – Rescuing and Reviving Rural Journalism
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. Attend and learn about their findings to get ideas of what could work for you. This replay is hosted inside the NENPA Member Community and doesn’t require advance registration.
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Thursday, Jan. 19 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
NENPA U: Classifieds 2023 – Top Five Revenue Opportunities
Today’s classifieds struggle at almost every newspaper. And yet, there are papers from Florida to Montana with hundreds of ads in all categories. Let Janet DeGeorge share their TOP FIVE REVENUE secrets with you for a significant revenue boost in 2023. DeGeorge has been president of Classified Executive Training & Consulting since 2001. She specializes in classified sales training for sales reps and new managers, outbound sales training, and redesigning print and online products and rate packages to uncover new revenue sources. This is an Online Media Campus webinar. The event is $35 per attendee, but NENPA members attend for free. Members, contact t.cleary@nenpa.com for the registration code.
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Thursday, Jan. 19 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
NENPA U: How the American Rescue Plan Can Help Rebuild Local News
Join Steven Waldman, founder, and president of Rebuild Local News, an organization that advocates for smart public policies for the future of the local press, and Rebuild Local News manager for policy development, Anna Brugmann. They 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. This replay is hosted inside the NENPA Member Community and doesn’t require advance registration.
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Thursday, Jan. 26 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EST
NENPA U: Money Through Missions – Revenue Partners With a Purpose
In your community, some people 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. This replay is hosted inside the NENPA Member Community and doesn’t require advance registration.
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Deadline Jan. 23 To Enter SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards For Student Journalism

Annually, the Society of Professional Journalists presents the Mark of Excellence Awards, honoring the best in student journalism.

Most categories are first judged on the regional level. First-place regional winners advance to the national competition, and most are recognized at their respective regional SPJ conference in 2023. National winners will be showcased on spj.org.

Entries are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on January 23, 2023.

New this year: Some categories are national only, with all entries immediately going to national judging.

In addition to physical awards and recognition, two awards carry cash prizes. The Corbin Gwaltney Award for Best Student Newspaper, large and small divisions, each is accompanied by a $5000 prize courtesy of the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Learn more and enter

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North Country Publisher, John Harrigan Passes Away At 75

John Harrigan Speaking at the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame dinner in 2020.
John Harrigan speaking at the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame dinner in 2020.

John Dennis Harrigan passed away at age 75 on Monday, Dec. 26, at the Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital after a long illness, according to his sister, Mary Trowbridge.

Harrigan was inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2020 and has been an important part of New Hampshire journalism and newspapers, both daily and weekly, for more than a half-century.

In their lengthy nomination of Harrigan, co-nominators Joseph W. McQuaid of the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News, and Nancy West, publisher of InDepthNH.org extolled his “more than a half-century illustrious career as a statewide reporter, outdoor writer, and North Country newspaper owner.”

Harrigan is well known to readers at the New Hampshire Sunday News, and his column, “Woods, Water & Wildlife,” was still running long after he left the paper’s employ, continuing the column for a 37-year run. As publisher of the Coos County Democrat, he founded the weekly direct-mail tabloid, the Northern Beacon.

“Harrigan’s columns, editorials, and feature writing have regularly presented a view of New Hampshire nature and wildlife to a statewide, often suburban readership that would otherwise be lacking in that perspective,” they wrote.

“His informed, respectful, and often humorous columns have introduced and educated generations of readers to New Hampshire’s outdoor vistas and wildlife,” they continued. “Sometimes, he just rants, and even when he is deeply pissed off, his words are a joy to read.”

Read more at InDepthNH.org

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Happy Holidays and New Year from NENPA

As we close out 2022, the NENPA staff and Board of Directors wish you and your families a happy holiday season and a peaceful and prosperous New Year!

The last few years have been challenging for most of us and we are thankful to all our members for their support as we look forward to a fresh year. We are honored to represent and serve the daily, weekly, specialty, and online news organizations in New England.

Please enjoy the video below made up of some of the winning photos from the 2021 Better Newspaper Competition.

We look forward to celebrating the 2022 winners at the Spring 2023 New England Newspaper Convention (dates and location to be announced soon)!

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NEFAC, MNPA and NENPA ask for transparency in Mass. Governor-Elect Maura Healey’s office

The New England First Amendment Coalition, Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association, and the New England Newspaper & Press Association called on Mass. Governor-Elect Maura Healey in a Dec. 19 letter to Healey to apply the state’s public records law to the governor’s office despite a blanket exemption claimed by the last several administrations.

“As a matter of public policy, there is no reason to give the governor’s office a blanket exemption from the law. No doubt, there are certain documents within the governor’s office that should be excluded from public view. But the existing exemptions to the public records law — such as those related to policy development and personal privacy — fully cover these situations and protect the governor’s office to the same extent that they protect any other state or local official performing an executive function.”

Massachusetts is one of only two states — Michigan the other — where the governor has a blanket exemption from the public records law, either by statute or through practice. That is true even though it is not clear that the Massachusetts legislature ever intended to create an exemption for the governor.

Read more at the New England First Amendment Coalition

On Dec. 20 Governor-elect Maura Healey committed to bringing more transparency to the corner office and also called for more transparency in the Legislature and the judiciary, bucking a decades-long trend set by governors and lawmakers alike in claiming they are exempt from public records laws.

Read more at The Boston Globe

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December Obituaries 2022

CONNECTICUT
Rose Angell
Frances Manson
Edward Morris
D. Ken Welch
MASSACHUSETTS
Phillip DeGray
Harry Duel Jr.
Harriet Fisher
Susan Hamilton
Doris Johnson
John Tredinnick
MAINE
None Reported
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Elizabeth Jackson
James A. Rousmaniere, Jr.
RHODE ISLAND
None Reported
VERMONT
None Reported
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Enter 38 Categories In Better Newspaper Competition Advertising, Circulation, and Promotion Division!

The Advertising/Circulation/Promotion division of the Better Newspaper Competition consists of 38 competitive categories, and we want you to flaunt your best ideas for everyone to see. We are encouraging innovative and creative members to enter their best work in the 2022 competition!

Participation in the contest is a great way to show off your best revenue-generating work, reward and recognize your advertising, graphics, and production staff, and share ideas so we can learn from each other!

There is no limit on the number of entries per category, except in Advertising General Excellence. Newspapers are eligible to compete in six classes:

  • Dailies with circulation under 15k
  • Dailies with a circulation of more than 15k
  • Weeklies with circulation under 5k
  • Weeklies with a circulation of more than 5k
  • Specialty and niche publications
  • News Services and Online News Sites

Publications interested in joining NENPA can find out more information at this link.

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

The final deadline to submit entries is Friday, December 16, 2022.

Download the information packet 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.

Advertising/Circulation/Promotion Division – Download Information

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 packet.

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

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

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

Learn more about the Better Newspaper Competition

Submit your entries

Advertising, Circulation, and Promotion Categories:

ADVERTISING

Local Display Ad, Black and White
Local Display Ad
Color Local Online Ad
Most Creative Use of Small Print Space
Advertiser Campaign
Themed Multiple Advertiser Page(s)

Best Sponsored Content
Best Native Advertising

Automotive Display Ad
Real Estate Display Ad
Best Holiday Ad
Best Health Ad

Newspaper Designed Advertising Insert
Best Integrated Campaign for an Advertiser

Special Section / Advertising Supplement
Events Online/Virtual
Events

Business Innovation
Best Digital Revenue Building Idea
Excellence in Revenue Collaboration and Partnerships
Best Idea for Generating Revenue

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Best Ad Designer
Advertising Director/Manager of the Year
Advertising General Excellence

NEWSPAPER MARKETING AND PROMOTION

Advertising Sales Media Kit
Audience Building Promotion
Classified Promotion
Specialty Publication Promotion
Digital Product Promotion to Advertisers
Digital Product Promotion to Readers
Advertiser Promotion for Special Section
Niche Publication
Pure Ad Niche Publication
NIE Program / Promotion
Newspaper-Sponsored Event Promotion

Subscription Sales Promotion
Subscriber Retention Program
Contests

Download 2022 BNC Advertising Competition Rules
Submit Your Entries For The 2022 Competition!
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Final Extension to Enter the 2022 Better Newspaper Competition!

There was a glitch in the system, and we’ve heard from several people that they couldn’t access the contest portal over the weekend, so we’re giving everyone a few more days to upload your entries.

The final deadline to submit entries in the Better Newspaper Competition has been pushed one last time to Friday, December 16, 2022.

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 to show off your best work, reward and recognize your staff, and share ideas so we can learn from each other!

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

Learn more about the Better Newspaper Competition

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