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Metro offering free COVID-19 print section to all newspapers

For 110 years, Metro has partnered with local publications, doing all they can to help their subscribers in supporting their communities.

Metro has put together extensive coronavirus coverage resources including editorial, images and ads to assist with covering COVID-19 for Metro subscribers.

For non-subscribers, Metro is making available one free fully-templated COVID-19 print section to all newspapers.

If newspapers would like access to the section they can contact Jennifer Steiner, Metro Sales Director at jsteiner@metro-email.com.

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Prince Lobel Offers Pro Bono Access Hotline For New England Media

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During the COVID-19 crisis, Prince Lobel is offering its services pro bono to all New England news media –print, broadcast, audio, video, and online – seeking emergency legal counsel to help obtain access to public records, government meetings, and public spaces.

All New England media outlets, producers, podcasters, reporters, and documentarians are eligible to contact the Access Hotline to obtain prompt, useful legal advice from the nationally known group of media lawyers at Prince Lobel Tye LLP, subject to the terms below.

Inquiries should be directed to ACCESS@PrinceLobel.com or 1-888-428-7490.

The Prince Lobel attorneys staffing the Access Hotline will be Jeffrey PyleRob BertscheJoe SteinfieldSheila Meagher, and Michael Lambert
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Free widget for news organization to gather community resources during COVID-19

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Builders and Backers and VOMO have partnered to create the ‘Be A Neighbor’ campaign and are opening the VOMO app for free, for everyone and every organization in any community that wants to use it to help us come together during the COVID-19 crisis. 

News organizations are invited to add the widget to their website to begin. Gaining immediate access to organizations and people in you area that need your help or can provide help during the Coronavirus crisis.

The Dallas Morning News reported on using the widget and the program is scaling nationally with a lot of other news organizations starting to use the widget to connect needs and helpers during coronavirus crisis.

VOMO was created to become a movement for good —mobilizing volunteers to meet the needs of their communities. 

Builders + Backers was created to ignite action in communities across America with the most American of methods: experimentation and entrepreneurial action.

VOMO’s team is working 24×7 to add functionality specific to the needs of communities during the pandemic. 

GET THE WIDGET

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Greg Swanson

Greg has led his own companies, directed digital advertising sales at major media chains, co-founded one of the nation’s largest travel guide companies, helped launch an alternative newsweekly and designed interactive kiosks for museums, universities, and IBM. Greg is one of the founding members of ITEGA (Information Trust Exchange Governing Association), and is ITEGA’s development director.

Greg is also currently an investor/ partner in two companies: 1) Itzontarget, a digital marketing company and 2) One Boat Guides, the publisher of: OBXGuides.com, and (in partnership with Swift Newspapers) Tahoe.com, EverythingVailValley.com, EverythingSummit.com, EverythingReno.com, and EverythingCarson.com, and (in partnership with EO Media Group) OurCoastthisWeek.com (In Oregon), and OregonCoastthisWeek (Oregon).

Prior to Itzontarget, as CEO of ITZ Publishing Group Inc. Greg worked with media companies across the U.S. to cultivate cultural change, manage complex project introductions, execute marketing campaigns, create effective sales packages, coach managers and train their teams.

Greg deployed innovative products and sales approaches designed to impact the success of local, community-based media and has consistently raised industry standards for selling digital advertising.

From 2009 to 2011, Greg worked with Journalism Online (Press Plus) as their Chief Revenue Enhancement Officer, to design marketing and packaging strategies for online subscriptions, micro-payments and combined online/print subscription packages. Before founding Itz Publishing, Greg served for seven years as Director of Interactive Media Sales for Lee Enterprises.

Prior to his newspaper career, Greg co-founded The Insiders’ Guides, which grew to be one of America’s largest domestic travel guidebook series. He founded If Multi-media and created kiosks for the University of North Carolina, IBM, and the Children’s Museum. He was a founding staff member of the Independent Weekly in Durham, N.C. Greg was a John Motley Morehead Merit Tuition Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He lives in Portland, Oregon, is married to Gillian Floren, and has two daughters, Kaola and Emma.

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Coordinated Front Page – #ThereWithYou Campaign

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Last week the UK made a bold move to create a common voice to assure readers they are not alone in this ‘new reality’ we are all experiencing and assured readers they are in this with them. See the story

Press Associations across the country are participating in doing the same thing in the United States for our papers and communities.

NENPA is promoting the coordinated front page, #ThereWithYou campaign and sending a sample page out to all of our member papers that would like to participate in this initiative.

Click here to let us know if you’ll be participating and we will collect PDF’s of the front pages to display on our website.

The goal is to have all daily papers publish the front page on Monday, March 30 and weekly papers to publish the front page on the day of the week they publish.

The sample page includes a story that newspapers can follow as a guide, each newspaper should create/write its own story about their community and how the newspaper is standing with them. Use #ThereWithYou when posting this story on social media.

Download Sample Page

Please contact Linda Conway at l.conway@nenpa.com or 781-281-7648 with any questions.

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NENPA Stands Up For News Organizations As Essential Services

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The New England Newspaper & Press Association, along with other organizations, wrote to the governors of Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island on March 24.

The letter reminded the governors to exempt news organizations, if they order certain businesses to close to help contain the spread of the coronavirus and describing the essential services newsrooms are providing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Maine NENPA worked with; New England First Amendment Coalition, Maine Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists – New England.

In New Hampshire NENPA worked with; New England First Amendment Coalition, The Keene Sentinel, Nackey S. Loeb School of Communication and Society of Professional Journalists – New England.

In Rhode Island NENPA worked with; New England First Amendment Coalition, Rhode Island Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists – New England.

Governors in the other New England states have either already done so or have provided sufficient assurances that press interests would be protected.

NH Letter

ME Letter

RI Letter

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Sunshine Week Editorials From New England Publications

Sunshine Week was March 15 – 21, 2020 and the work below is a sampling of some of the editorials published in New England. If you published an editorial in support of Sunshine Week, please send it to us and we will include it with the others published and submitted by New England news organizations in their support of the event.

Sunshine Week, is an annual nationwide celebration of access to public information and what it means for your readers and community.

New England Newspaper & Press Association and The Boston Globe worked together to encourage newspapers across the country to join us in raising our collective voice for transparency, access to public information and the importance of open government.

The below images link to a PDF of the page as it appeared in the publication (if available) and the company names link to the online version of the article.

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Member News Related to Coronavirus

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Newspapers across New England are reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic in a variety of ways – from new product launches to changes in print schedules. Send us news about what your organization is doing so we can share ideas to help sustain all of us.

New England Association of Circulation Executives – Ideas & Best Practices for a COVID-19 World

America’s Newspapers offers free marketing campaign to newspapers promoting subscriptions — in print or digital

Next Round of FJP Grant Applications Opens April 13

24 New England Newsrooms Receive FJP Grants To Support Coronavirus Coverage

#ThereWithYou COVID-19 Campaign

Can New England News Media Attend ‘Virtual’ Court Hearings?

Metro offering free COVID-19 print section to all newspapers

Legacy is here to help with emergency obit updates, remote funeral participation and more

NEWS MEDIA ALLIANCE – Guide to The CARES Act

US Chamber coronavirus loan guide to help small businesses

Prince Lobel Offers Pro Bono Access Hotline For New England Media

Facebook Invests Additional $100 Million to Support News Industry During the Coronavirus Crisis

COVID-19: SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program

PBN shifts to digital weekly edition amid COVID-19 threat

Seven Days launches Good To-Go Vermont: A Directory of Takeout Options During the Coronavirus Era 

Gannett New England and LOCALiQ announce customer assistance program featuring a free multimedia advertising offer for local businesses

Gannett launches national website to sell gift cards to help local small businesses hit hard by coronavirus crisis

The Newsroom at the Center of a Pandemic

Zero incidents of COVID-19 transmission from print surfaces

Americans who primarily get news through social media are least likely to follow COVID-19 coverage, most likely to report seeing made-up news

Keeping local news sources afloat needs to be part of the governmental and philanthropic response to the pandemic

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Coronavirus Webinars and Live Events

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Listed below are upcoming webinars and live events to help both your editorial and business departments. If you are aware of additional resources not listed here, please let us know so we can add them

May
26
Tue
Psychological safety as a tool for collaboration
May 26 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
How internal team culture shapes trust, engagement and collaboration with your community
Psychological safety is often framed as a mental health or workplace well-being concept, and it is, but its real impact shows in how teams collaborate and how organizations build trust with their communities. Local news organizations are working to better engage younger and more diverse audiences, but new products or reporting alone aren’t enough. Creating psychologically safe spaces is essential for encouraging honest dialogue. In this interactive and self-reflective session, API’s senior vice president, Sam Ragland, will guide participants through exploring how psychological safety shows up within their teams — and how it directly impacts their ability to build meaningful relationships with the communities they serve. Through practical frameworks and real-time reflection, you’ll examine your own leadership behaviors, meeting dynamics and decision-making practices to identify what fosters (or hinders) trust, belonging and collaboration. You’ll leave with:
  • A clearer understanding of how internal team culture shapes community engagement
  • Tools to recognize and reduce social threats in your work
  • Practical ways to create more inclusive and collaborative environments
To support journalists and their well-being during Mental Health Awareness Month, API has offered this free, interactive webinar since May 2024. If you attended this session last year and found it helpful, please encourage your colleagues and friends in news to join this year.
May
28
Thu
AI-Driven CRM strategies for publishers
May 28 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Publishers are under growing pressure from every direction: advertiser churn, subscriber losses, disappearing third-party cookies, fragmented audience data and increasing demands for personalization from both readers and advertisers. At the same time, many media organizations are still relying on disconnected systems that make it harder to track relationships, forecast revenue and identify growth opportunities.

Register brlow for this upcoming E&P webinar, where experts from Workbooks CRM will explore how AI-driven CRM platforms are helping publishers unify audience, advertising and subscription data into one smarter, more actionable system. Learn how media companies are using automation, predictive insights and first-party data to improve retention, strengthen advertiser relationships, simplify sales workflows and drive more sustainable revenue growth.

Attendees will learn:

  • How AI-driven CRM tools can identify at-risk subscribers and advertisers before they leave
  • Why publishers are using AI-powered personalization to improve engagement, conversions and loyalty
  • What media companies should do now to strengthen first-party data strategies as third-party cookies disappear
  • How publishers are managing subscriptions, advertising, events and audience relationships inside one unified platform
  • Ways AI-powered forecasting and automation can help sales teams uncover new revenue opportunities faster
Jun
4
Thu
Housing Journalism for Everyone
Jun 4 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Housing intersects with nearly every major story journalists cover today—from elections and education to health, climate, business, and public safety. Yet many reporters believe housing is a specialized beat or feel unprepared to cover it responsibly.

This session, led by Princeton’s Eviction Lab, is designed for journalists of all beats and experience levels. Whether you’re a breaking news reporter, investigative journalist, data reporter, audience engagement journalist, or editor, we’ll show why housing deserves your attention—and how to cover it well without necessarily becoming a full-time housing reporter.

In this panel, attendees will learn:

  • What’s happening nationally in housing and homelessness, including recent shifts in policy, affordability, and displacement—and how these trends connect to electoral politics and local governance.
  • Four to five essential data tools every journalist should know to report on housing, eviction, rent, and homelessness, with a practical introduction to accessible resources and datasets.
  • How to find housing stories in any community, including tips for identifying newsworthy angles beyond press releases and official statements.
  • Ethical sourcing practices, with guidance on interviewing tenants and unhoused people in ways that minimize harm and avoid stigma.
  • Examples of strong housing journalism, highlighting work that has driven accountability, influenced policy, or changed public understanding.
  • Attendees will leave with concrete tools, story ideas, and a clearer sense of how housing reporting can strengthen their core beat—no matter what they usually cover.

Previously Aired

Previously aired Editor & Publisher Reports Podcasts

America’s Newspapers Previously Aired Webinars – Download recordings, PowerPoints and key takeaways:

Small Business Impacts and Resources from the CARES Act – Register
This free webinar presented by NENPA University and Online Media Campus was recorded on April 3. It provides an overview of the impacts and resources available to small businesses from the three phased congressional relief packages in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A NENPA member code is required to register for the recording at no cost. Members that are interested in receiving the access code for this webinar should email c.panek@nenpa.com.

Audio interview with infectious disease experts from The New England Journal of Medicine – conducted on March 25, 2020, the editors discuss transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and how to prevent it, particularly in at-risk health care workers.

Covering Coronavirus: Expert Tips for Journalists & Communicators – National Press Club

Get the Story on the Coronavirus Crisis – Center for Health Journalism

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