Convention Registration Open and Better Newspaper Award Notifications Going Out!

Registration is now open for the 2026 New England Newspaper Convention & Trade Show, taking place March 13–14 at a new location, The Venue at Portwalk Place in...

Blumenthal, Swalwell & Menendez Introduce The Journalist Protection Act

– Today, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15), and U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced the Journalist Protection Act...

Humor, satire: Making the political ‘cut,’ from our earliest days

The 2020 election is no laughing matter — except that it is, in the great American tradition of humor and satire that...

Academy of New England Journalists announces the recipients of the 2025 Yankee Quill Award

Four New England journalists will receive the prestigious Yankee Quill Award this spring for their contributions to the betterment of journalism in the six-state...
John Foust

Do you have a sales prevention department?

John Foust has conducted training programs for thousands of newspaper advertising professionals. Many ad departments are using his...

Record-Journal and Masthead Maine Selected For LMA FIMS Lab

Local Media Association has selected 12 local media companies to join the new Family and Independent Media Sustainability Lab — FIMS Lab for short — aimed...

Nominations Open for the Yankee Quill Award

The Academy of New England Journalists is now accepting nominations for the Yankee Quill Award, the region’s highest individual honor in journalism. The award...

Thankful We Can Speak Our Minds This Thanksgiving

At the Freedom Forum, we’ve thought about creating T-shirts that read: “Free speech: Complicating Thanksgiving Dinner since 1791.” But...

VTDigger Founder Anne Galloway Steps Down

VTDigger.org founder Anne Galloway has stepped down as executive director of the state’s largest online news outlet. She will remain with the nonprofit as...

Obituaries April 2019

CONNECTICUT William J. Pape II Stephen D. Fricke Lyra McKee MAINE None reported MASSACHUSETTS Francis J. Hartnett Sr. David W. Clark Gerard M. Walraven NEW HAMPSHIRE None reported RHODE ISLAND William T. "Bill" O'Donnell VERMONT Marguerite J. Lyons