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Nicco Mele is a managing director at the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. From 2016 to 2019, Nicco was the Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Nicco’s prior experience includes founding...
Thank you again to those that participated in the New England Better Newspaper Competition! The competition was quite strong and included 2,000 entries this year.
Notifications of award winners were sent a few weeks ago. If you have any questions, please contact Linda Conway at l.conway@nenpa.com.
The awards will be presented...
The New England Newspaper Convention, held on March 22-23, 2024, at the Westin Waltham Hotel in Waltham, Massachusetts, brought together journalists, photographers, designers, publishers, students, professors, vendors, and media advertising professionals. The event featured a variety of engaging sessions, including workshops, award presentations, and insightful talks by speakers and...
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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...
Laura Koch is the senior graphic designer at Metro Creative Graphics. She holds a BA in Communication but followed her artistic passion to start her career as a graphic designer for two newspapers in her hometown of Buffalo, NY. In 2008 she relocated to NYC and landed a graphic...
Sarah Betancourt is reporter who covers immigration for CommonWealth Magazine. Prior to joining Commonwealth, Sarah was a reporter for The Associated Press in Boston, and a correspondent with The Boston Globe and The Guardian. She has written about immigration, social justice,...
Autumn Phillips is Managing Editor of The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C. She previously served as Executive Editor of the Quad-City Times in Davenport, Iowa, and the Times-News in Twin Falls, Idaho. Her work has been recognized twice by Editor &...
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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...
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...









