In an Oct. 17 article, Steve Leone was named the new publisher of the Concord Monitor as the newspaper continues efforts to build community partnerships and evolve its digital and print operations.
Jonathan Van Fleet, the Monitor’s managing editor since 2014, takes over as editor, where he will oversee all newsroom operations. He will continue in his role of leading the Monitor’s local reporting staff.
Jane Seagrave, the publisher of the Vineyard Gazette Media Group, was elected president of the Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association at its annual meeting last week.
Ms. Seagrave was named publisher of the Gazette in 2011 following a long career in media management. She was previously senior vice president and chief revenue officer for The Associated Press in New York.
Other officers elected were Marianne Stanton, editor and publisher of The Inquirer Mirror of Nantucket, vice president; Fredric D. Rutberg, president and publisher of The Berkshire Eagle, treasurer; and Dan Krockmalnic, general counsel, Boston Globe Media Partners, secretary.
Anne Brennan, executive editor of the Cape Cod Times, Kevin Corrado, regional publisher, Digital First Media, Ms. Seagrave and Mr. Rutberg were also elected to the board for three-year terms.
The Hartford Courant announced recently that The Republican newspaper in Springfield, MA will take over the printing of the paper by the end of the year, ending more than 250 years of publication in Connecticut’s capital city.
The shift from Hartford will not affect distribution and circulation of the paper, which is the nation’s oldest continuously published newspaper. The paper began as a newsweekly on Oct. 29, 1764.
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.
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