Focus on people, sources
two keys to enlivening
local government coverage
By Nadine El-Bawab
Bulletin Correspondent
Even though reader interest in local government coverage has waned, it is still important for readers and an important obligation of journalists, according to panelists at the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s recent winter convention. The panelists...
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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...
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,...
Carol Robidoux is founder, publisher and Chief Instigating Officer of manchesterinklink.com, a digital news and information site based in Manchester, NH. She has been a journalist since the early 1990s, working for the Bucks County Courier Times in Levittown, PA, as a...
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,...
Jill Harmacinski, is a staff reporter at The Eagle-Tribune in North Andover, Mass., and covers breaking news, crime and court issues, and local government. She writes a column called “Connections” which focuses on unsung heroes in the Merrimack Valley. Jill won a 2002 Publick Occurrences award for her coverage...
Cristela Guerra is an award-winning journalist and arts and culture reporter for The ARTery. She worked for nearly five years at The Boston Globe starting in features and then making her way back to Metro. She’s covered major blizzards, immigration policy, the...
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....
‘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...
Fighting the
‘firehose of falsehood’
By Kaitlyn Mangelinkx
Bulletin Correspondent
“Fear has a lot to do with what people believe and why they believe it.”
Jane Elizabeth, director of accountability journalism at the American Press Institute, used that quote to begin her session, “Reaching the ‘fact-resistant’: How to engage partisan audiences through trust and...








