New England Newspaper & Press Association

Months of reporting. Mountains of notes. Drives of databases. Now what?

Shaping a months-long investigation or long-form narrative centered on public health can be tough, especially with a trove of important material.

Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute to learn how to find focus and harness your narrative. We’ll share tips for organization, editing yourself, and finding clarity.

This program is part of the Institute’s inaugural Public Health Reporting Fellowship, funded by the Common Health Coalition. It’s being opened to the public at no cost.

Join Sarah Armour-Jones, project lead, of “Writing the story of civic science media: An exploration of media, science and community engagement” for a conversation about a new report highlighting case studies in civic science media. Sarah will discuss how funders, civic science practitioners, institutions, and media makers can work together to use storytelling to amplify science’s reach and impact.

Sarah will be followed by Catherine Devine, who will talk more about the Center for Cooperative Media’s 2025 civic science media collaborations program. The program will fund $15K for up to 10 projects that focus on increasing public participation in science, expanding public deliberation about emerging science and creating opportunities for science to be informed by diverse communities.

Join the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY for a showcase of bold ideas and breakthrough strategies from the Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership at the Newmark J-School.

​After a year of learning and experimentation, our 2024–2025 cohort presents forward-looking projects designed to tackle the most pressing challenges in journalism today: from audience engagement and AI adoption to sustainability, organizational change, and newsroom culture.

​These leaders are rewriting the rules, testing new approaches, and charting a path forward for journalism around the world. Come hear from our newsroom executives, editors, founders, and changemakers as they share their insights, strategies, and lessons learned!

Featuring presentations from:

• ​Aldana Vales, Director of Audience Experiences at Gannett – USA TODAY Network
• ​Alexandra Smith, Chief Strategy Officer at The 19th
• ​Andrea McDaniels, Managing Editor at The Baltimore Banner
• ​Antti Karvanen, Head of Digital at A-lehdet Oy
• ​Bernice Marie Sibucao, Senior Manager and Deputy Head of Digital Strategy and Innovation at the GMA Network
• ​Danson Cheong, Assistant News Editor at The Straits Times
• ​Franco Piccato, Executive Director at Chequeado
• ​Gary Lavariere, Chief Revenue Officer at The Berkshire Eagle
• ​J. Gabriel Boylan, Audience and Content Strategist
• ​Ken Schneck, Founding Editor at The Buckeye Flame
• ​Mariah Craddick, Executive Director of Product at The Atlantic
• ​Paris Brown, Publisher at The Baltimore Times
• ​Paulo Celso Da Cunha Pereira, Executive Editor at O GLOBO
• ​Ross Maghielse, Deputy Managing Editor, Innovation & Development at The Philadelphia Inquirer
• ​Simone Salden, Deputy Editor in Chief at manager magazin
• ​Sophie Nicholson, Deputy Chief Editor, Digital Investigation at AFP
• ​Tara Francis Chan, Director of Operations at The Trace
• ​Thomas Aagaard, Managing Editor at Zetland

With U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) detentions occurring across the country and many communities on edge, journalists must navigate federal and state laws to report on immigration policy and related action. Obtaining public records, however, has become a significant challenge. Federal agencies are preventing local entities from disclosing information. Records on arrests and criminal charges aren’t always provided. The names of those arrested are often kept secret. Data on how many detentions have occurred can be difficult to find. The federal Freedom of Information Act often is of little help. So what can local reporters do to get the records they need?

Have a question you want answered during the program? Ask here: https://forms.gle/HrrcKb93umxQRVG96

Presented by the New England First Amendment Coalition and the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications.

Join Dream Local Digital for Automate Your Outreach: AI for Email and Social Media, a power-packed, 60-minute live webinar designed specifically for busy business owners and marketers. You’ll learn how to harness the latest in AI and automation to plan, write, and schedule your marketing—without sounding robotic.

What You’ll Learn:
– Why consistency is the #1 marketing challenge for SMBs—and how AI solves it
– How to use automation tools for email marketing that actually gets opened
– How to plan a full week of social posts in 15 minutes or less
– A step-by-step demo of AI-powered workflows for email + social
– How to keep your content sounding human (and uniquely you)
– What to automate first for maximum impact with minimal effort
– The biggest myths about AI in marketing—debunked

Every day the free press in America faces new attacks. To safeguard this cherished liberty, ClassACT HR73’s Justice and Civic Engagement Committee has launched a Freedom of the Press initiative to confront the current challenges to publishing the truth. The constitutional freedom that permits citizens to scrutinize governments and to hold elected officials accountable, and that allows journalists to report local, national and international news, is under threat. The time has come to protest these incursions and to protect the First Amendment and our constitutional democracy

Join us for ClassACT HR73’s online forum “Press Freedom under Attack: Preserving our Democracy.” Our moderator will be Sylvester Monroe ’73, Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy. Among our panelists will be Geoffrey Cowan, University Professor of Communication at USC and a distinguished First Amendment attorney; Susan Goldberg, the president and CEO of GBH, the largest producer of PBS content and a major provider of NPR programming; and Kevin Merida, the former executive editor of the Los Angeles Times and the former managing editor of the Washington Post.

Sylvester Monroe, who reported and edited for Newsweek, Time and the Washington Post, and the three panelists will examine the unprecedented nature of current attacks on the media. The group will trace how United States arrived at a point where the government attempts to censor the language of respected outlets like the Associated Press and the Department of Justice investigates NBC for its “diversity, equity and inclusion” policies. In addition, National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service now face efforts to cut off federal funding. The panel will examine whether these actions and other threats represent a fundamental shift in the relationship between journalism and politics, one that signals a movement toward authoritarianism.

For this free Indiegraf session, we’ll be joined by Dan Oshinsky, the former Director of Newsletters at BuzzFeed and The New Yorker, and now the founder of Inbox Collective, a consultancy that helps publishers grow their audiences and revenue through email.

Dan will dig into a key challenge for news publishers and content creators: turning newsletter readers into paying supporters—and keeping them engaged for the long haul.

Building a paid audience goes far beyond simply securing that first payment. To create lasting support, you need a strategy that works at every stage of the journey.

In this session, Dan will guide you through practical, actionable tactics to help you:

✅ Convert — Discover smart strategies that motivate your readers to become paying supporters.
✅ Retain — Learn how to keep those supporters engaged.
✅ Prevent churn — Recognize early signs when supporters start to drift away and how to bring them back before you lose them.

There’ll also be time for a live Q&A, so bring your questions!