By Julia Hutchins
Bulletin Correspondent
Sexual assault has become an increasingly prevalent topic in the news, especially with the current #metoo movement. That doesn’t make it any easier to write about or to talk to people about, as panelists discussed at a session on “Reporting on Sexual Assault: The journalistic, emotional...
Focus on people, sources
two keys to enlivening
local government coverage
By Nadine El-Bawab
Bulletin Correspondent
Even though reader interest in local government coverage has waned, it is still important for readers and an important obligation of journalists, according to panelists at the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s recent winter convention. The panelists...
Evan Allen is an investigative reporter on the Globe's Narratives and Quick Strike investigative teams. She began freelancing for the Globe in 2011 and joined the staff in 2013. She has covered police, breaking news, and major events including the Boston Marathon bombings. She was part of a team...
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?”...
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Noah R. Bombard is the communications director for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities. Prior to that, he had a 26-year career in journalism, working as an editor and writer for various Massachusetts media...
Gregory V. Sullivan has served as General Counsel for the Union Leader Corporation for the past 34 years. He also currently serves on the New Hampshire Supreme Court’s Committee on the Judiciary and the Media, as well as the Committee for Public Access to Courts, and is President of...
Dan Lyon (b. 1991) is a visual storyteller, editor and educator based in Syracuse, New York. He recently worked as the photo editor for Chalkbeat, a nonprofit newsroom telling the story of education in the United States, taught photographic storytelling as a part-time instructor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School,...
Janine Weisman has been an adjunct professor and journalism faculty adviser to the student newspaper at Roger Williams University since 2013. She is an independent journalist after having spent 25 years at The Newport Daily News, including 13 years as editor of...
Cristela Guerra is an award-winning journalist and arts and culture reporter for The ARTery. She worked for nearly five years at The Boston Globe starting in features and then making her way back to Metro. She’s covered major blizzards, immigration policy, the...