New report calls for a radical rethinking of local journalism

PEN America | November 22, 2019 As local news outlets are gutted and shuttered, reporters laid off, publication schedules...

Nackey S. Loeb School Announces 2025 First Amendment Award Event & Honorees

The Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications has announced the recipients of its annual awards, to be presented at the School’s Annual First Amendment...

Entries Open For SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards in Student Journalism

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

Four Organizations In New England Selected for API Election Coverage and Community Listening Fund

Thirty-one news organizations will receive support through the American Press Institute’s Election Coverage & Community Listening Fund, an initiative to empower newsrooms to implement...

The Boston Globe Celebrates 150 Years of Publishing

Today, The Boston Globe celebrates 150 years. The first edition was published on March 4, 1872, and to mark the occasion, the Globe published...

March April Obituaries 2023

CONNECTICUT Margaret Donoghue Eamon Flanagan Gladys Handelman Pat Harris Roseann Iacomacci John Peterson Elisabeth Riley Rita Woodhull MASSACHUSETTS Doris Brownlie Thomas Charlton James Coulter James Donovan Robert Dunn Richard Flavin Paul Galvin Bernard Hyatt Patrick Martinec Richard Perkins Nicholas Stavarakis Richard Thurmond Richard White MAINE None Reported NEW HAMPSHIRE Normand...

July Obituaries 2020

CONNECTICUT Barbara Ann (B. Tiane) Mitchell Gordon Naomi J Karp Elizabeth (Betty) Baker Leete Mary Carol MacKenzie MAINE None Reported MASSACHUSETTS Leonard E. Amero Richard J. Chase, Sr. Mary (Dirlam) Freedman Nancy Lee Frisbie George William...

Massachusetts State Representative seeks tax credit to encourage local newspaper subscriptions

Earlier this week, NENPA spoke to Massachusetts State Representative Jeffrey Rosario Turco about the bill he introduced in mid-January which would institute a new...

NENPA convention’s opening highlights

Thales Teixeira gestures during his keynote speech at the opening session Friday, Feb. 24, of the New England Newspaper & Press Association's 2017 winter...

How Training Can Improve Local News, Make It More Inclusive

Mark Glaser | Knight Foundation | December 11, 2019 If you were to train the perfect local news journalist...