Newspaper Convention

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.

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Dan Kennedy is a professor of journalism at Northeastern University, a nationally known media commentator, and a 2019 winner of the Yankee Quill Award. In addition to “What Works in Community News,” he is the author of two other books about the...

John Voket | NENPA eBulletin | February 25, 2020 As the newly-minted owner and publisher of Editor & Publisher, Mike Blinder launched into his keynote at NENPA's 2020 New England Newspaper Convention hearkening back to a mantra he learned from a key mentor back...

Darrell Davis is the Vice President of Creative Services for Metro Creative Graphics, Inc. With more than 30 years of experience in media and advertising, Darrell leads a team of art directors, designers and copywriters in producing creative content to help newspapers and their local advertisers thrive. Darrell attended Syracuse...

Stephanie Sugars is the senior reporter for the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, where she documents press freedom violations in the U.S. and by U.S. officials abroad. A graduate of NYU's Global and Joint Program Studies program in journalism and international relations, her professional work focuses on human rights, politics...

Carmen Nobel is program director of Journalist’s Resource at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Journalist’s Resource (journalistsresource.org) examines news topics through a research lens. The staff publishes summaries and roundups of peer-reviewed public policy research – making it easier for...

I served as a photojournalist at the St Louis Post-Dispatch for 20 years. For 15 of those years I was director of photography and Asst managing editor for technology. I am a five-time Pulitzer Nominee for photojournalism - lost all those times making me a 5-time loser. I left the...

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | Tim is the founder and CEO of Blue Engine Collaborative, a coaching and consulting organization that has helped thousands of publishers around the globe generate hundreds of millions of dollars in incremental revenue to support good journalism. Tim understands the power that comes...

| CONVENTION HOME | REGISTRATION | PROGRAM | SPEAKERS | SPONSORS | HOTEL RESERVATIONS | 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...

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,...