David Karpf is an Associate Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, where he has taught since joining the department as an Assistant Professor in 2012. He previously spent two years as an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information....
Melissa Hanson has been reporting at MassLive for more than three years, where some of her important work has included a series on hundreds of untested rape kits in Massachusetts and an investigation into the state's reluctancy to release 911 call recordings....
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...
2018 NENPA Winter Convention
Bettering journalists’ abilities
to cover disabilities of others
By Kaitlyn Mangelinkx
Bulletin Correspondent
John Voket, associate editor of The Newtown (Conn.) Bee, received a mass email note last year to U.S. journalists that sparked an idea to help fellow journalists.
The note read, in part: “Fully one in five people (56...
Kevin L. McCrudden is an international author, speaker and the only motivational and leadership speaker in American history to ever have a day of recognition passed by The United States Congress and New York State. He is the founder of National Motivation...
The annual New England Newspaper Convention will be held May 1-6, 2023.
We’ll be shaking things up a bit this year with a new location and schedule. To be sensitive to everyone’s time—we’re offering several virtual sessions May 1-4 and presenting the in-person workshops, roundtable discussions, trade show, and celebratory...
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Rich Saltzberg is a freelance journalist who works in regional planning in Dukes County. He is a former reporter for the Martha’s Vineyard Times. Saltzberg is a two-time NENPA Reporter of the Year and a three-time first-place winner of the NENPA Right-To-Know...
Fighting the
‘firehose of falsehood’
By Kaitlyn Mangelinkx
Bulletin Correspondent
“Fear has a lot to do with what people believe and why they believe it.”
Jane Elizabeth, director of accountability journalism at the American Press Institute, used that quote to begin her session, “Reaching the ‘fact-resistant’: How to engage partisan audiences through trust and...
Kimberly Kirchner is Editor of The Herbalist, a quarterly magazine covering cannabis news and culture in Western Massachusetts published by New England Newspapers Inc. Between issues, she serves as Special Sections Editor for the company’s four newspapers, overseeing content creation, design and...