Join us on October 19 for the virtual New England Newspaper Conference, as we celebrate the invaluable contributions of two exceptional journalists who have dedicated their lives to the craft, and served the industry with distinction over the years.
We are thrilled to announce that Wayne Braverman, managing editor of The Bedford (MA) Citizen, will receive the Bob Wallack Community Journalism Award, while Katie Mulvaney, court reporter for The Providence (RI) Journal, will receive the AP Sevellon Brown New England Journalist of the Year Award!
Make sure to register soon for this insightful event where, in addition to recognizing our award winners, we will also have the privilege of listening to insightful presentations from top-level executives.
Wayne Braverman
Bob Wallack Community Journalism Award Winner
Wayne Braverman, managing editor of The Bedford (MA) Citizen, receives the Bob Wallack Community Journalism Award for his distinguished reputation as a resourceful, media-savvy, multi-award-winning journalist and pioneering managing editor. He is an accomplished and seasoned journalist whose skills and experience transcend media.
By design, he has spent his entire 50-year media career in community journalism and has earned more than 50 awards at national, regional, and state levels in newspapers, television, and public speaking.
Whether online or in print, Wayne consistently achieves the highest journalistic standards in all of his work. In his roles as lecturer, reporter, editor, and opinion writer, he has demonstrated an understanding of the role of journalism and its sacred trust with the public.
There are innumerable examples over his illustrious career of how much of a positive influence Wayne has had on his employers, colleagues, and readers.
Katie Mulvaney
AP Sevellon Brown New England Journalist of the Year
Katie Mulvaney, courts reporter for The Providence (RI) Journal, receives the AP Sevellon Brown New England Journalist of the Year Award.
Katie is a reporter who has built a beat around people who have no voice. Every story she writes is compelling and holds the powerful accountable. She’s relentless about it. Over the course of the one-year award period, she wrote 182 stories, many of them investigations.
Katie writes these stories with such heartbreaking clarity. By the time they’re published, they’re no longer a case number on a court docket, an overdose statistic, or a whisper. She’s tracked down the interviews and found the records or the details to breathe life into them.
But she doesn’t just write the stories and move on. She makes people, who wouldn’t normally care, listen.
Her fierceness is why The Providence Journal has so many stories of tremendous consequence, all united around the theme of giving voice to the voiceless.
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NEFAC receives largest gift ever from the estate of late Boston Globe reporter Gloria Negri
Negri, who died in 2017, spent 53 years at the Globe working in several roles including columnist and foreign correspondent. The estate bequeathed $818,125 to the coalition for journalism education and programming.
The bequest will be used to support and grow NEFAC’s current journalism education programs and services, such as the New England First Amendment Institute, NEFAC Mentors, and 30 Minute Skills. It will also be used to create additional much-needed resources for journalists and newsrooms in the region.
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