New England Newspaper & Press Association

AI is transforming the way editorial teams work, but are you using it to its full potential? In this free webinar, we’ll explore five surprising ways AI can enhance your editorial processes, from streamlining content creation to improving audience engagement and optimizing workflows. Discover practical applications you might not have considered and learn how to integrate these tools seamlessly into your team’s daily tasks.

Whether you’re a newsroom leader, a digital publisher, or a content strategist, this session will provide actionable insights to help you.

Host: David Arkin, CEO of David Arkin Consulting

This free GIJN webinar brings together leading experts to share practical advice and tips on navigating this often-overwhelming field.

Satellite imagery has become a game-changer for investigative journalism, offering powerful tools to uncover hidden stories, monitor environmental changes, and expose human rights abuses. But access to satellite images can be costly and complex. Thankfully, a range of free resources and strategies now makes this invaluable information more accessible than ever. In this webinar, we will explore how journalists can tap into free satellite imagery to enhance their reporting and uncover the stories the world needs to see.

Attendees will learn the best platforms and techniques for obtaining free imagery, strategies for analyzing and processing the data, and ethical considerations when using it in investigative stories.

Carl Churchill is a journalist at The Wall Street Journal, where he covers data-driven investigations. He has used satellite imagery to reveal critical insights on environmental crises, supply chain disruptions, and global conflict zones. Churchill brings a wealth of experience in integrating geospatial tools into investigative reporting.

Yao Hua Law is an award-winning journalist from Malaysia who has extensively reported on environmental and agricultural issues. His work often incorporates satellite imagery to track deforestation, illegal land use, and the impact of human activity on fragile ecosystems.

Laura Kurtzberg is a data visualization specialist, cartographer, and a news applications developer with a particular interest in environmental stories. With extensive experience in leveraging data to tell compelling stories, Kurtzberg has worked on innovative projects that make complex datasets accessible and actionable for journalists and researchers alike.

The moderator is Manuela Andreoni, Chief Correspondent at Reuters based in Brazil.

This webinar is open to journalists of all experience levels.

In 2001, the federal Department of Health and Human Services required all hospitals to post the prices they charge patients for services. Many, but not all, hospitals have complied with this rule. Still, finding the actual prices that hospitals charge for 300 non-urgent (called “shoppable”) services is challenging if not impossible for most consumers.

That allows journalists to empower consumers by finding and publishing hospital price information and to ensure that hospitals are complying with the now four-year-old federal rule.

During this AHCJ webinar, journalists will learn to gather price information from hospitals and compare prices among multiple hospitals. You’ll hear from a Colorado journalist who put transparency to the test when she was expecting a baby and learn from two experts about tools and resources you can use to find prices.

You’ll walk away with the ability to find out what hospitals charge, including what health insurers will pay hospitals and what consumers can expect to pay out of pocket for each service.

Join the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications for a free online class. The First Amendment guarantees five basic freedoms: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. These sacred freedoms are not absolute. Obscenity, defamation, bribery, perjury, true threats, child pornography, anti-trust conspiracies, false advertising and solicitation to commit murder are classes of speech that get no First Amendment protection.

During the past one hundred years the courts, federal and state, have wrestled with the clash between free expression on the one hand, and privacy, public safety and national security on the other.

This class is a First Amendment primer for students new to the topic and a great refresher for those whose work or volunteer service involves the Five Freedoms.

Your Instructor:

Gregory V. Sullivan, Esq. is the President of Malloy & Sullivan, Lawyers Professional Corporation and teaches First Amendment Media Law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston.  He serves as the President of the New England First Amendment Coalition and on the New Hampshire Supreme Court Committee on the Judiciary and the Media.  He has argued numerous landmark First Amendment and Right to Know cases before the Supreme Court of New Hampshire.  He is a founding Member of the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications

With the evolving social media landscape, new platforms like Blue Sky and Threads are emerging as important channels for news distribution and audience engagement. But why should your news organization pay attention to these platforms right now?

In this free webinar, we’ll explore the unique opportunities Blue Sky and Threads offer for newsrooms, including reaching new audiences, diversifying traffic sources, and building community engagement in a post-Twitter world.

Host: David Arkin, CEO of David Arkin Consulting and Emilie Lutostanki, content strategist, David Arkin Consulting

Newsletters remain one of the most powerful tools for driving audience engagement and loyalty, but how do you make yours stand out in an increasingly crowded inbox? In this free webinar, we’ll dive into proven strategies to create newsletters that not only captivate readers but also grow your subscriber base.

Learn how to craft compelling subject lines, optimize content for your audience’s needs, and use personalization to boost open rates and click-throughs. We’ll also explore how to leverage segmentation, automation, and analytics to refine your strategy and keep your readers coming back for more.

Host: David Arkin, CEO of David Arkin Consulting