Strong focus on trust is critical to future of news

Build trust or lose readers, listeners, and viewers. That’s the challenge facing news organizations these days, says a key speaker for Radically Rural’s Community...

Partnership expands ProJourn, pro bono legal initiative for local journalists

Together, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Microsoft Corp., the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Davis Wright Tremaine —...
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Time to Stand up for Journalists, for the Pursuit of Truth

Unlike most of Time magazine's "Person of the Year" designees since 1927, we can be certain none of those featured this year on that...

December Obituaries 2020

CONNECTICUT Chuck Burghardt Henry Heinz Katten Gloria Cole Sugarman Robert L. Wells, Sr. MAINE None Reported MASSACHUSETTS Luke Charles Laura Griffin Robert W. Keeley Andrew S.D. Lindsay Stephen Emmett Lyons Sandra L. Scafidi Keith R. Sikes James Worsham NEW HAMPSHIRE Dorothy...

Attention recent graduates and student journalists: Pitch The Lead

Taylor Blatchford, Founder and Editor, of The Lead, is looking for students and recent graduates to guest write for The Lead. No one knows...

SPJ launches free race and gender hotline

The Society of Professional Journalists has partnered with experienced Black and LGBT journalists and educators, including the newly formed Trans Journalists Association,...

More than 50 journalists participating in community journalism track at Radically Rural Sept. 27-28

More than 50 journalists from around the country have already registered to speak at or attend Radically Rural, the two-day national summit featuring community...

Transitions

CONNECTICUT Woody Klein has retired as a news columnist for the Westport News after 50 years. Klein’s career began as a reporter for the Mount...

Saltzberg named ‘Reporter of the Year’

Martha’s Vineyard Times | January 15, 2020 MV Times reporter Rich Saltzberg has been named Reporter of the Year...

Perspective: Protect assembly and petition by preserving listening at public meetings

Two of the least-known freedoms protected by the First Amendment — the rights of assembly and petition — are being tested in today’s rancorous,...