After 30 years of corporate ownership, The Inquirer and Mirror is returning to its roots as a locally-owned, independent newspaper.
Inquirer and Mirror editor and publisher Marianne Stanton announced to her staff this week that 41 North Media LLC has entered into an agreement with Gannett LLC, which owns The Inquirer and Mirror, to acquire the newspaper business, its property and assets. A closing date of Nov. 1, 2020 is expected.
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Local news in America has long been widely trusted, and widely seen as objective. But as traditional local papers struggle, there have been attempts across the political spectrum to create more partisan outlets.
Few can have been as ambitious or widespread as the nationwide network of 1,300 websites and newspapers run by Brian Timpone,a television reporter turned internet entrepreneur.
He has said that he sees local news as a means of preserving American civil discourse. But a Times investigation has found that Republican operatives and public relations firms have been paying for articles in his outlets and intimately dictating the editorial direction of stories.
Published in The New York Times October 28, 2020
E&P and Local Media Consortium announced the winners of the 25th annual EPPY Awards on Oct. 27 during a virtual live ceremony sponsored by Viafoura.
The two top EPPY awards for best newspaper website went to New England based newspapers and NENPA members, Boston Globe and Vineyard Gazette. The Boston Globe also received EPPY awards for best news political blog and best photojournalism.
Best Daily Newspaper Website with 1 million unique monthly visitors and over – Boston Globe | BostonGlobe.com
Best Weekly or Non-Daily Newspaper Website with under 1 million unique monthly visitors – Vineyard Gazette | vineyardgazette.com
Best News/Political Blog with 1 million unique monthly visitors and over – “Back to the Battleground” | BostonGlobe.com
Best Photojournalism with 1 million unique monthly visitors and over – “For one Maine family, the long, hard road from ‘nowhere’ to home” | Boston Globe
This year’s EPPY Awards received more than 450 entries. Winners were selected from an international list of nominations to honor the best digital media websites across 38 diverse categories, in addition to categories for excellence in college and university journalism. Each category was separated into websites with more than 1 million monthly unique visitors, and those that receive less than 1 million.
While local reporters rush to cover the decade’s most important stories, publishers have tried to find their financial footing in Covid-19’s “new normal.”
Last spring, as the pandemic arrived in the United States and spread, local journalists — largely from home offices — wrote about closing businesses, town-by-town testing procedures, and community resilience, attempting to quell uncertainty.
Emma Cotton of VTDigger.com dives into the high stakes for newspapers, their coverage areas, and how Vermont newspapers are adapting to the changes brought about by the pandemic through interviews with publishers, editors, and media experts.
Local Media Foundation announced the first stipends for investigative reporting recipients from the Fund for Local Journalism. The winners include a diverse mix of local news organizations, all focused on empowering critical change in their communities.
In this round, stipends go to projects focused on one of three topics: education, social injustice, or the unhoused.
10 investigative reporting stipends of $5,000 each, will be awarded.
One of them is going to two New Hampshire based organizations, Granite State News Collaborative and New Hampshire Public Broadcasting for a joint investigative journalism project that looks at policing and systemic racism.
This data-driven project will dive deep into the numbers to better understand if New Hampshire’s policing is fair to minority populations by evaluating ten years of history from all NH cities and towns on issues related to police funding, the number of officers, demographics of the departments, and violent crime arrests. Finally, they will propose solutions.
Seven Days, Vermont’s free, independent newsweekly, won four first-place awards from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia in a virtual ceremony on September 18. One of the winning entries, a joint project with Vermont Public Radio about Vermont’s state-licensed assisted living and residential care homes, received a national Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting from the Radio Television Digital News Association on October 10.
Editor & Publisher (E&P), the Poynter Institute and America’s Newspapers have partnered to launch the Media Job Board, serving the media industry with cutting-edge job-matching technology and targeted network distribution powered by PandoLogic.
Job seekers can connect with Media Staffing Network (MSN), a totally “media-focused” staffing company, to help them make the next move in their careers.
Employers who post jobs on the new Media Job Board receive unprecedented reach to top media professionals across many websites and on TheJobNetwork™, the largest recruitment ad network of job sites in North America.
Through this new partnership, job postings appear on the website at www.mediajobboard.com, in Editor & Publisher magazine and on Poynter’s website.
Slanderous attack on former NEFAC President by GOP House candidate
Madison Cawthorn, a Republican candidate for the House from North Carolina, created an attack website accusing a journalist of leaving a job in academia “to work for non-white males, like Cory Booker, who aims to ruin white males running for office.”
The journalist, Tom Fiedler, who had written favorably about Cawthorn’s opponent, is a former dean of the Boston University College of Communications and past president of the New England First Amendment Coalition. He volunteered for the 2020 presidential campaign of Booker, D-N.J.
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By Trip Gabriel New York Times