BOSTON - Awards for the 2019 New England Better Newspaper Competition were given out during the 2020 New England Newspaper Convention, held Feb. 7-8, 2020 in Boston.
The Better Newspaper Competition is the largest and most comprehensive journalism recognition program in New England....
Gabriela Lozada is a Report for America corps member. Her focus is on Latinx community with original reporting done in Spanish for ¿Qué hay de Nuevo NH?.
She has over 10 years of reporting experience and is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who specializes in covering social issues. Her documentary, “El Ultimo...
Barbara Walsh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked for newspapers in Ireland, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Florida. While working at the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, Walsh reported on first-degree killer William Horton Jr. and Massachusetts' flawed prison furlough system. The series changed state sentencing laws and won a...
Josh Kovner covers child protection and social justice. He was part of the Pulitzer-winning team coverage of the Lottery shootings, and of the Pulitzer-finalist team coverage of the Sandy Hook school shootings. A story on a boy with autism, "Saving Evan," won...
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Tiffany Tan is a VTDigger reporter covering southern Vermont, substance use disorder and the criminal justice system. She previously reported on the police and courts for the Bennington Banner (Vermont). Before that, she held a similar beat at the Rapid City Journal...
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Timothy Dwyer is the president & publisher of The Day.
Dwyer began his career at The Boston Globe while a student at Northeastern University. Upon graduating from Northeastern with a degree in...
New Hall of Famers
praise peers, recall careers fondly
By Jess DeWitt
Bulletin Staff
The latest members to join the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame nominations emerged from the biggest crop of nominees in the Hall’s history.
Although the competition was stiffer, the new members echoed some of the same themes heard...
Felicia Gans is a producer and reporter for the cannabis team at The Boston Globe, where she has overseen the digital strategy of the Globe's marijuana section since its launch in November 2018. She has covered the opening of recreational marijuana stores...
CONFERENCE HOME | SCHEDULE | SPONSORS | REGISTERMike Cote has worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers and magazines in New Hampshire, Florida and Colorado for more than 30 years. He also taught public affairs reporting and news editing at the University of Colorado.
Steve Leone joined the Monitor as editor in April of 2014 and served through 2020, when he became publisher and vice president of news for the Newspapers of New England. He’s worked for the Newport Daily News in Newport, RI, the News & Advance in Lynchburg, Va., the Portland Press Herald in Portland, Maine, the Press Democrat in...