Every challenge is an opportunity, and I know that sounds like a cliché, but that’s where most new industries, or new companies, or new successes, come from. (It) is when someone picks a new challenge and says, “How do I do that differently than what other people are doing?”...
Heidi Flood is Strategic Lead, Partnerships & Outreach for Boston Globe Media. Flood researches, develops and drives opportunities for the Globe to work in partnership with nonprofits, foundations and other organizations to support public service journalism initiatives.
Prior to joining the Globe, Flood worked at Bain Capital, where she managed several of the firm's...
Dawn DeAngelis oversees the broadcast, online, educational outreach and communications efforts for New Hampshire's PBS station, She is passionate about producing locally relevant content with impact long after broadcast.
She also acts as liaison for the station’s...
Angie Drobnic Holan is the editor-in-chief of PolitiFact. She has extensive experience fact-checking the presidency, Congress and political campaigns, and was a reporter on the PolitiFact team that won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She serves on the advisory board of the International Fact-Checking Network.
She holds a...
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Dan Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University, a nationally known media commentator, and a 2019 winner of the Yankee Quill Award. In addition to “What Works in Community News,” he is the author of two other books about the...
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Justin Silverman is executive director of the New England First Amendment Coalition. A Massachusetts-based attorney, Justin helps lead NEFAC’s First Amendment and open government advocacy throughout the six-state region.
Justin’s commentary has appeared in dozens of publications including The New York Times, Washington...
NENPA’s 2018 convention
features a new site,
lots of new ideas for innovation
By Jess DeWitt
Bulletin Staff
One change for the annual New England Newspaper and Press Association winter convention this year was its location. It was held for the first time at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel in South Boston.
But the more...
Dr. Lara Salahi is an award-winning health journalist, author, and Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. She studies news-academic partnerships as a sustainable business model for local news. She and her co-researcher coined the term “news-academic partnerships,” which is now...