Penelope Overton

Penelope “Penny” Overton writes about the lobster and marijuana industries for the Portland Press Herald, Maine’s biggest daily newspaper. She joined the paper in 2016 as a business and enterprise reporter, and added the newly created marijuana beat in 2018, right after...
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...

Angelo Lynn

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | SponsorsYankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner Angelo Lynn has been the Editor and Publisher of Addison Press Inc., Middlebury, Vt., since 1984. He’s a fourth-generation journalist dating back to the 1880s and his three daughters are in the business making it...

David Abel

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner An award-winning reporter on the Globe staff since 1999, David Abel has covered war in the Balkans, unrest in Latin America, national security issues in Washington D.C., terrorism in New York and Boston, and climate change and poverty in New...

Rich Saltzberg

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

Roy Gutterman

Convention Home | Register for Event | Program | Hotel Reservations | Sponsors Yankee Quill Luncheon | Hall of Fame Dinner An expert on communications law and the First Amendment, Roy Gutterman is director of the Newhouse School's Tully Center for Free Speech. He is a graduate of the Newhouse School and the Syracuse University College of Law. Gutterman worked as a reporter for...
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...
‘Podcasts give you the voices of the participants. You feel like you’re in the same room with them, that they’re talking directly to you. There’s a powerful intimacy to that. You can hear subtle inflections in the voices that are very hard to capture in print.’ -- Christopher Goffard, Staff writer, Los...
‘The press is to serve the governed, not the governors.’ -- Jane Mayer, Writer, The New Yorker NEFAC award recipients rewarded for doggedly seeking public records, truth By Rebekah Patton Bulletin Correspondent Recipients of honors at the New England First Amendment Coalition’s 2018 awards luncheon did not err on the side of caution...
How social media teams can and should combat fake news By Jess DeWitt Bulletin Staff In an era beleaguered by fake news, having a strong social media team is the best way for newsrooms to combat the spreading of misinformation, according to Jane Elizabeth, director of accountability journalism for American Press Institute in...