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...
Attend sessions at the New England Newspaper Convention on April 29-30 in Boston and celebrate the achievements of Hall of Fame, Yankee Quill, and Better Newspaper Competition winners. The reduced hotel rate expires today April 22 and the deadlines to purchase tickets for all events are fast approaching.
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Bill Kole, New England editor for The Associated Press, oversees daily and enterprise coverage of all six states. A longtime former AP foreign correspondent, he has reported extensively on terrorism, corruption, immigration and human trafficking from Paris, Amsterdam, Vienna and Eastern Europe. Bill worked for newspapers in Michigan and...
Key First-place Journalism Awards
General Excellence
Larger Dailies
Republican-American, Waterbury, Conn.
Smaller Daily
Concord (N.H.) Monitor
Larger Weekly
The Martha’s Vineyard Times, Vineyard Haven, Mass.
Smaller Weekly
Mount Desert Islander, Bar Harbor, Maine
Specialty Publication
Providence (R.I.) Business News
Weekly Reporter of the Year
Dan MacAlpine *, Ipswich (Mass.) Chronicle
Daily Reporter of the Year
Neil Simpson **, The Patriot Ledger, Quincy,...
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Allie Ginwala has been the audience engagement editor for the Concord Monitor since March 2021. She manages the opinion section and oversees various community and audience engagement initiatives including the Monitor's reader advisory board, annual Impact Report, the News for Your Neighbor...
Kevin Landrigan is the State House Bureau chief with the New Hampshire Union Leader. He has nearly 45 years of experience covering politics and public policy for print and broadcast media, having continuously covered the Legislature since 1988 and every presidential primary since 1980. Kevin won a 2022 Publick...
Paul Lambert is a sophomore at Franklin Pierce University and directs the school’s political reporting arm, PoliticsFitzU. He has been published in the Boston Herald, made appearances on WMUR, and created news packages for NBC10 Boston. Lambert also broadcasts sporting events for...
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Antonia Noori Farzan is a Rhode Island native who joined The Providence Journal in 2021. She previously worked at The Washington Post and, before that, spent several years at alt-weeklies in Arizona and Florida. Antonia is a graduate of Columbia University Graduate...
Sue Robinson (PhD, Temple University) holds the Helen Firstbrook Franklin endowed research chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism & Mass Communication where she teaches and researches about journalism. She has three books: How Journalists Engage: A theory of trust building, identities and care (2023, Oxford University...
Link McKie has been a longtime newspaperman who in recent years added consulting and teaching to his career. His career began in 1970 as a regional reporter for the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester, Mass. In 20 years there, he was also a general assignment reporter; city government reporter...