The New England Newspaper & Press Association has opened the 2026 New England Better Newspaper Competition, with updated categories, expanded opportunities and three divisions recognizing the breadth of work being done across New England news organizations: Editorial, College Journalism and Revenue Excellence.

This year’s competition has been refreshed to better reflect the work being done across today’s news organizations — from reporting, photography and digital storytelling to audience growth, advertising, revenue innovation and the work of the next generation of New England journalists.

Work published or produced between August 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026 is eligible for entry. The deadline for all three divisions is Friday, October 30, 2026.

New Opportunities in the Editorial Division

The professional Editorial competition features 84 categories and honors across reporting, opinion, design, digital journalism, photography and special recognition.

Four new categories have been introduced for 2026: Explanatory Journalism, Data Journalism, Nature & Wildlife Reporting and Digital Innovation. Several established categories have also been updated or broadened, including Breaking News Coverage, Investigative & Accountability Reporting, Community/Audience Engagement and Reporting on Diverse Communities & Issues.

The changes are designed to provide more opportunities to recognize the different ways journalists are reporting stories, serving their communities and connecting with audiences.

Download the 2026 Editorial Division Guidelines

College Journalism Reflects Today’s Student Newsrooms

The College Journalism Division has also been updated to reflect how student journalism is produced today — in print, online and across digital, visual, audio and social platforms — while continuing to recognize excellence in reporting, writing, editing, design and photojournalism.

Categories include News Story, In-Depth Reporting, Civic Issues Reporting, Digital Storytelling, Podcast, Video Journalism, Social Media Journalism and Newsletter, along with photography, design and special recognition categories. Top honors include Top College Journalist, College Rising Star and New England College Newspaper of the Year.

All New England colleges and universities are invited to enter. A $150 entry package includes up to 15 entries, with additional entries available for $15 each. Newspaper of the Year is included at no additional charge for schools purchasing the entry package.

Download the 2026 College Journalism Division Guidelines

Revenue Excellence Redesigned for 2026

One of the biggest changes this year is the redesigned Revenue Excellence Awards, created to better recognize the many ways news organizations generate revenue, grow audiences and build stronger businesses.

The competition continues to recognize outstanding advertising while expanding to include digital marketing, audience growth, client success, events, reader revenue, partnerships, new products, fundraising and business innovation.

Categories are now organized around four areas: Advertising Excellence, Sections & Publications, Audience Growth and Revenue Innovation. The division also places greater emphasis on measurable client results, reader revenue, partnerships and new product development, with new individual and team recognition including Salesperson of the Year and Revenue Team of the Year.

The idea behind the redesigned competition is simple: If it worked, enter it. News organizations are encouraged to consider not only great advertising, but also successful campaigns, products, events, partnerships and strategies that produced meaningful results for their businesses, audiences or advertisers.

Download the 2026 Revenue Excellence Awards Guidelines

Start Reviewing Your Best Work

NENPA encourages newsrooms, college publications and revenue teams to begin reviewing the work they produced during the contest year and identifying the stories, photographs, projects, campaigns and ideas they are proudest of.

Complete guidelines for all three divisions include category descriptions, judging criteria, eligibility and entry requirements. Entrants can also visit the Better Newspaper Competition page for complete competition information and access to the online entry portal.

Professional Editorial and Revenue Excellence entries are open to NENPA member news organizations in good standing, while the College Journalism Division is open to colleges and universities throughout New England.

Enter the 2026 Better Newspaper Competition

The entry deadline is Friday, October 30, 2026.

Winners will be recognized at the 2027 New England Newspaper Convention, with dates and location to be announced.

Your best work deserves to be recognized.

The September 21 NENPA eBulletin is out! Meet the leaders and speakers joining us for the NENPA Leadership Summit, October 8–9 in Sturbridge. Also this week, New England press associations come together in a joint statement condemning White House restrictions on news organizations and reaffirming the importance of a free and independent press.

Meet the Speakers Shaping What’s Next for Local News at the Leadership Summit on October 8-9

Joint Statement: New England Journalism Organizations Condemn White House Restrictions on News Organizations

INDUSTRY NEWS

JOB LISTINGS

Digital Democracy Project Manager – The Connecticut Mirror

News Editor – Portland Press Herald

Belfast Reporter – Bangor Daily News

St. John Valley News Reporter – Bangor Daily News

Multimedia Digital Editor – Bangor Daily News

Editorial Designer – Boston Globe Media Company

Audience Growth Lead – The Christian Science Monitor

Worcester Biz Journal seeks a senior staff writer

USA TODAY Seeking General Election Night Stringers across Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire

Remote page designer, Newspapers of New England

EVENTS & WEBINARS

September 22 @ 1:00 PM ET
What’s normal and what isn’t on Election Day and beyond: A webinar for reporters

September 22 @ 6:30 PM ET
SPJ National Programming Committee | Safety and Security for Journalists

September 23 @ 12:00 PM ET
How AI is changing local discovery—and opening a recurring revenue opportunity for publishers.

Sep 23, 2026 01:00 PM ET
The impact of data centers on the environment and health in rural areas

September 24 @ 12:00 PM ET
Student Reporting: Anticipating the Threats and Knowing Your Rights

September 29 @ 10:00 AM ET
Using Insights and AI to Grow Publisher Revenue

October 8-9, 2026
NENPA Leadership Summit, Sturbridge, MA

REPORTING & NEWSROOM RESOURCES

Tapping into the talent pool: Expert insights on recruitment and retention

3 new ways Google’s improving Search profiles for publishers

How to secure funding for internships in your newsroom

TRAINING

Poynter launches free course offering ethical guidance for funders interested in supporting local news

Karsh Journalism Fellowship For Excellence On Jewish Issues, Apply By October 15

Improving a Local Newsroom’s Instagram with a Vibe-Coded Tool

Applications open for 2 new tuition-free AI Journalism Labs programs!

AUDIENCE & REVENUE

Uncover the business challenge behind the marketing request

The State of Native Advertising and Branded Content in 2026

“Many have said it couldn’t be done”: Local news site Lookout Santa Cruz is profitable thanks to ads and memberships

Pew research offers newsrooms a broader way to think about audience engagement

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Editor & Publisher Becomes First Publisher to Achieve AAM Ethical AI Certification

TRANSITIONS

Cartoonist Lincoln Peirce speaks about his beloved ‘Big Nate’ strip, newspapers and what’s next

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

While trust in the media may be unhealthily low today, it was surely unhealthily high in the 1950s and early 1960s

How Americans define press freedom in their own words

Americans Value Press Freedom but Differ on Its Limits

We, the undersigned journalism organizations, strongly condemn President Donald Trump’s decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House. 

A free and independent press is fundamental to our democracy. Journalists must be able to report on government officials and hold those in power accountable without fear of retaliation or restrictions based on the content of their reporting. 

Presidents have the right to respond to criticism and challenge reporting they believe is inaccurate. However, using the power of the presidency to restrict access for news organizations because of their coverage threatens the principles of press freedom and government transparency. 

The White House is a public institution, and access to it should not be conditioned on whether journalists or news organizations produce coverage that is favorable to the president. 

The press is a proxy for the public. When the press is denied access, the people are denied access to information. 

We stand with journalists and news organizations committed to informing the public. We urge the administration to respect the independence of the press and recognize that a free press is essential to a healthy democracy. 

Protecting press freedom is not about supporting one political party or opposing another. It is about defending the constitutional principles that allow journalism to serve the public, regardless of who occupies the White House. 

As organizations representing and supporting journalism throughout New England, we remain committed to defending the First Amendment and supporting the vital role of an independent press.

Signed, 

Connecticut Daily Newspaper Association
Maine Press Association
Massachusetts Newspaper Publishers Association
New England First Amendment Coalition
New England Newspaper and Press Association
Vermont Press Association
Rhode Island Press Association

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Media Contact:
Linda Conway, Executive Director
New England Newspaper and Press Association
L.Conway@nenpa.com
781-281-7648 

The 2026 NENPA Leadership Summit is just a few weeks away, and this year’s program brings together journalism leaders who are actively experimenting with new ideas, building new models and thinking about what comes next for local news.

On October 9 at the Publick House Historic Inn in Sturbridge, we’ll move from the practical ways news organizations are putting AI to work today, to new approaches to audience, revenue and sustainability, and finally to a broader conversation about what journalism itself needs to become next.

Building the AI-Ready News Organization

We’ll begin with AI and What’s Next, featuring members of the NENPA and Google News Initiative AI cohort, who will share projects they’ve spent the past several months developing—what they tried, what they learned and where they see real opportunities for AI in their organizations.

Aimee Rinehart, formerly Senior Product Manager for AI Strategy at The Associated Press and now focused on strategic journalism innovation through Frontier Collective, will take the conversation further by exploring how news leaders should be preparing their organizations as AI becomes increasingly embedded in the business and practice of journalism.

What’s Working: New Models for Local News

Next, we’ll bring together leaders from three very different news organizations for a candid conversation about what they’re trying and what they’re learning.

PJ Browning of The Post and Courier, Lauren Gustus of The Salt Lake Tribune and Karen Bordeleau of The New Bedford Light will discuss approaches to audience development, geographic expansion, philanthropy, membership, collaboration and sustainability—including what has worked, what hasn’t and what they’re trying next.

The conversation will be guided by Liz White Notarangelo, coach and consultant with the Local Media Association, who works directly with publishers and news organizations exploring new approaches to sustainability, transformation and journalism funding.

Celebrating New England Journalism

Following the morning sessions, we’ll come together for the NENPA Awards Luncheon, celebrating outstanding journalism, leadership and service across New England. This year’s honorees will be recognized with the New England Newspaper of the Year Awards, Publick Occurrences Awards, Allan B. Rogers Editorial Award, New England First Amendment Award, A-Mark Prizes, AP Sevellon Brown New England Journalist of the Year, Bob Wallack Community Journalism Award and The Cornerstone Award.

Looking Ahead with Tom Rosenstiel

In the afternoon, we’ll step back from individual technologies and business models to consider an even bigger question: What does journalism itself need to become next?

Tom Rosenstiel, one of the country’s leading thinkers on journalism and co-author of The Elements of Journalism, will draw from his new book, The Next Journalism, to explore how journalism can become more useful, trustworthy and connected to the people and communities it serves.

And before we leave Sturbridge, we’ll turn the conversation back to attendees: What challenged your thinking? What questions are we still wrestling with? And what ideas will you take home and put to work?

Don’t Miss the September 23 Hotel Deadline

Planning to join us? The special NENPA room block at the Publick House ends Wednesday, September 23. Rooms are available for Thursday, October 8, at the special rate of $249 per night, plus applicable taxes and fees.

To reserve your room, call (508) 347-3313 and mention the New England Newspaper and Press Association room block or group code 1026NE.

Leadership Summit registration closes September 30. Make your plans now and join us October 8–9 in Sturbridge.

The September 14 NENPA eBulletin is out! Award notifications have gone out, and now it’s time to make plans for the NENPA Leadership Summit, October 8–9 at the Publick House in Sturbridge. Join us as we celebrate excellence in New England journalism at the Awards Luncheon on October 9, and catch up on the latest industry news, training, events and resources from across the region.

Awards Have Been Announced — Now Make Plans to Join Us in Sturbridge

Newsroom Spotlight: Worcester Business Journal

INDUSTRY NEWS

The Enterprise Launches The Dorothy G. Wayman Fellowship, A Watchdog Environmental Reporting Fellowship on Cape Cod

Report For America Host Newsroom Applications Open

JOB LISTINGS

Worcester Biz Journal seeks a senior staff writer

USA TODAY Seeking General Election Night Stringers across Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire

News Editor, Valley News, West Lebanon, New Hampshire

Remote page designer, Newspapers of New England

EVENTS & WEBINARS

Sep 15, 2026 11:00 AM in ET
The Environment-Public Health Link: Reporting With Rigor

Sep 15, 2026 7:00 PM in ET
SPJ-NE Public Record 101 with former SPJ President Dave Cuillier

Sep 16, 2026 03:00 PM in ET
Rising Energy Bills, Climate, and the 2026 Midterms

Sep 23, 2026 01:00 PM ET
The impact of data centers on the environment and health in rural areas

October 8-9, 2026
NENPA Leadership Summit, Sturbridge, MA

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Bella Grimaldi, of Suffolk University, named one of New York Times Corps Members

Meet NEFAC’s Negri Institute Student Fellows

TRANSITIONS

Worcester Business Journal Editor Brad Kane to Depart After 11 Years, Mark Conti, Will Succeed Kane as Editor

McGrory ends his time at BU, makes move to Globe permanent

REPORTING & NEWSROOM RESOURCES

How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?

Analysis of Globe’s B-Side newsletter for Generation Z – A Media Operator

OpenAI expands initiatives to support journalism from classrooms to newsrooms

New American Journalism Project report shows how nonprofit local news has moved beyond proof of concept

Award notifications are out, the program is set, and now it’s time to make plans to join us for the 2026 NENPA Leadership Summit, October 8–9 at the Publick House Historic Inn in Sturbridge, Massachusetts.

This year’s award honorees will be recognized during the Awards Luncheon on Friday, October 9, bringing journalists, news organizations, colleagues and supporters from across New England together to celebrate outstanding journalism, leadership and service. If you or someone from your organization has been recognized, we hope you’ll join us in Sturbridge to celebrate—and stay for a full day focused on what comes next for local news.

This year’s Summit, “What’s Next: Leading the Future of Local News,” brings together an exceptional group of journalism leaders for conversations about the ideas, experiments and opportunities shaping the future of our industry. From AI and newsroom transformation to new approaches to audience, revenue, growth and sustainability—and ultimately the changing role of journalism itself—the program is designed to offer practical ideas and new perspectives you can bring back to your organization.

Two important deadlines are approaching: the Publick House room block is available through September 23, and Leadership Summit registration closes September 30.

Make the most of the Summit by arriving on Thursday, October 8, for our informal Welcome Dinner with attendees, speakers, NENPA board members and staff. A special NENPA room rate of $249 per night, plus applicable taxes and fees, is available for Thursday night. To reserve a room, call (508) 347-3313 and mention the New England Newspaper and Press Association room block or group code 1026NE. Rooms must be reserved by September 23 to receive the group rate.

On Friday, October 9, we’ll present a full day of sessions, conversations, the Awards Luncheon and opportunities to connect with colleagues from throughout New England. The full program is below.

Make Plans to Join Us in Sturbridge

Whether you’re coming to celebrate an award, hear from industry leaders, connect with colleagues or explore ideas for your organization’s future, the 2026 NENPA Leadership Summit is an opportunity to come together with the New England news community and focus on what’s ahead.

Registration closes September 30. Make your plans now and join us October 8–9 in Sturbridge.

OCTOBER 9 SUMMIT SCHEDULE

8:00 AM – Registration, coffee, and continental breakfast

9:00 AM – AI and What’s Next: Building the AI-Ready News Organization

We’ll begin by moving beyond the AI hype and looking at what it can actually mean for a news organization. Members of the NENPA and Google News Initiative AI cohort will share projects they have spent the past several months developing: what they tried, what they learned, and where they see real opportunities to put AI to work.

Then Aimee Rinehart, formerly Senior Product Manager for AI Strategy at The Associated Press and now focused on strategic journalism innovation through Frontier Collective, will take the conversation further: How should news leaders be preparing their organizations for AI – not someday, but now?

Rinehart will explore the opportunities, decisions, and responsibilities ahead as AI becomes increasingly embedded in the business and practice of journalism, and what leaders should be thinking about as they prepare their organizations for what comes next.

10:30 AM – What’s Working: New Models for Local News

What happens when you bring together leaders from three very different—and highly innovative—news organizations?

PJ Browning of The Post and Courier, Lauren Gustus of The Salt Lake Tribune, and Karen Bordeleau of The New Bedford Light will offer a candid look at how their organizations are experimenting, growing, and adapting.

Together, they’ll explore audience development, geographic expansion, philanthropy, membership, collaboration and new approaches to sustainability – including what has worked, what hasn’t, and what they’re trying next.

Guiding the conversation will be Liz White Notarangelo, coach and consultant with the Local Media Association, where she works directly with publishers and news organizations exploring new approaches to sustainability, transformation, and journalism funding. Liz also brings deep New England roots and firsthand experience leading a local news organization through enormous change.

Together, this group brings an unusual combination of experience to the table: leaders who know the challenges of sustaining local journalism from the inside and who are actively working on new ways forward.

Expect a candid conversation about what’s working, what isn’t, what they’re learning, and what other news leaders might take home and try themselves.

12:30 PM – Celebrating New England Journalism

The Awards Luncheon will be a highlight of the Leadership Summit, bringing the New England news community together to recognize outstanding journalism, leadership and service. This year’s honorees have now been notified, and we look forward to celebrating their achievements with colleagues from across New England in Sturbridge.

The luncheon will feature the New England Newspaper of the Year Awards, Publick Occurrences Awards, Allan B. Rogers Editorial Award, New England First Amendment Award, A-Mark Prizes, AP Sevellon Brown New England Journalist of the Year, Bob Wallack Community Journalism Award and The Cornerstone Award.

2:00 PM – Looking Ahead with Tom Rosenstiel

In the afternoon, we’ll step back from individual technologies and business models to consider an even bigger question:

What does journalism itself need to become next?

Tom Rosenstiel, one of the country’s leading thinkers on journalism and co-author of the landmark The Elements of Journalism, will draw from his new book, The Next Journalism, to explore how journalism can become more useful, trustworthy and connected to the people and communities it serves.

At a moment when so much of the conversation about journalism focuses on what the industry has lost, Rosenstiel offers something especially valuable: a vision for what journalism can become next.

3:00 PM – Closing Conversation: What Will You Take Home?

Before we leave Sturbridge, we’ll bring the conversation back to the room: What challenged your thinking? What questions are we still wrestling with? And, most importantly, what ideas will you take home and put to work?

The Enterprise Newspapers has announced the Dorothy G. Wayman Fellowship, a new full-time, paid fellowship dedicated to watchdog coverage of development and overdevelopment across Cape Cod’s Upper Cape towns.

The 12-month fellowship will place an early-career journalist on a dedicated beat covering development in the Cape Cod region, specifically Falmouth, Sandwich, Mashpee and Bourne, and its effects on traffic, water quality, open space and habitat preservation, drilling into the heart of issues reshaping the region faster than most local newsrooms currently have the capacity to cover.

“This fellowship will deliver something crucial that our readers asked us for directly throughout our recent community listening sessions: news on what’s being built in town, and deep dives into how it will impact residents, from water quality and sewer capacity to traffic and parking,” Director of Audience Development and Mashpee Enterprise editor Calli Remillard said. “Overdevelopment is a real problem on Cape Cod. There is only so much land here, and making sure that what is left is protected—our open space, preservation areas and watersheds—is a critical issue among residents, but the information isn’t always accessible or easy to understand. This role will bridge that gap.”

The fellowship is structured as a teaching-newsroom program, pairing full-time reporting with a defined curriculum in regulatory literacy, public-records proficiency, accountability reporting and environmental data analysis. The yearlong program is built around a defined, quarterly-benchmarked curriculum—clear reporting milestones, structured mentorship and regular progress reviews—designed to produce sustained, rigorous coverage rather than one-off stories.

The Dorothy G. Wayman Fellow will sit inside the rooms where these decisions get made—planning boards, conservation commissions, Cape Cod Commission hearings—tracking projects from initial filing through final approval, asking the questions those review processes are supposed to answer but often don’t get asked or answered publicly. This work will dive deep, pulling engineering and environmental reports apart line by line to determine what a wastewater system is actually rated to handle, what a septic upgrade does or doesn’t solve, and how much runoff a site can absorb before it becomes someone else’s problem downstream. The fellow’s job is to go deeper than the headlines a new development generates, talking directly to scientists, engineers, and environmental experts to understand what’s really in the reports filed alongside every major project and following the slower-moving story underneath all of it: how continued building on already-strained land compounds with coastal erosion over time, turning today’s approved project into tomorrow’s harder-to-reverse damage. It’s accountability journalism built to answer the “why” behind the problems residents already feel every year.

The position is in-person and full-time, with a weekly stipend. The fellowship includes funds earmarked for professional development and a dedicated reporting budget, and comes with an additional monthly stipend to support the fellow’s relocation to Cape Cod and mitigate high costs of securing local housing.

Applications are open now, with the fellow beginning work June 1, 2027. Journalism organizations, educators, and networks are encouraged to share this opportunity with early-career reporters, recent journalism graduates, and members interested in environmental and accountability reporting.

Full details and the application are available at https://www.capenews.net/site/fellowship.html.

The 2027 Report for America Host Newsroom application opens September 14th, with 80 new positions available to newsrooms across the country. The deadline to apply is October 19.

RFA is looking to support newsrooms interested in expanding coverage and strengthening their reporting capacity and sustainability efforts — particularly those focused on:

• Under covered communities and beats

• Photography and visual journalism

• Sports reporting

• Rural communities

• Communities of color

We also encourage BIPOC-led and BIPOC-serving newsrooms to apply.

Want to learn more?

Register to attend a Report for America information session to learn about the application process, eligibility and the support our host newsrooms receive.

All sessions begin at 3:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Host Newsroom Virtual Information Sessions
September 17th
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Registration Now Open for 2026 NENPA Leadership Summit

Registration is now open for the 2026 NENPA Leadership Summit, taking place October 8–9 at the Publick House Historic Inn in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. This year’s theme, “What’s Next: Leading the Future of Local News,” will bring news leaders together to explore new tools, business models, leadership approaches and journalism’s evolving role in our communities.

The Summit begins Thursday evening with an informal Welcome Dinner for attendees, speakers, NENPA board members and staff. Friday’s program will move from practical experimentation with AI to conversations with news leaders pursuing new models for local journalism, before looking more broadly at the future of the industry and what attendees can take back to their own organizations.

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Newsroom Spotlight: Worcester Business Journal

From its modern office in downtown Worcester, just down the street from City Hall, Worcester Business Journal has a front-row seat to a city—and a regional economy—that has undergone enormous change.

For more than three decades, WBJ has chronicled the companies, institutions, developments and people shaping Central Massachusetts. Along the way, it has developed into something more than a publication covering business transactions. It breaks daily news, provides market intelligence, convenes business leaders through events and recognition programs, and invests in deeper reporting that holds some of the region’s most powerful institutions accountable.

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INDUSTRY NEWS

JOBS

Senior Editor — Northeastern Global News

Membership Coordinator, Operations Manager & Director of Audience Outreach & Community Engagement – The Maine Monitor

Deputy News Editor / Reporter – Daily Hampshire Gazette

EVENTS

September 8 – Ethical Reporting Saves Lives: In Recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month — 12 p.m. ET

October 8-9 – NENPA Leadership Summit, Sturbridge, MA

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Celebrating 150 Years of Local Journalism — Brattleboro Reformer

Maine Healthcare Transparency Advocate to Receive NEFAC’s Citizenship Award

Reporters From Across New England to Attend NEFAC’s Annual Investigative Journalism Program

Introducing the 2026 Cohort of the ONA Women’s Leadership Accelerator, Including Two From New England

Nominations Open for E&P’s News Executive of the Year, Formerly Publisher of the Year

REPORTING & NEWSROOM RESOURCES

How to File FOIA Requests Like a Pro — RCFP

Read Your Work Out Loud and Other Tips for Finding Your Writing Voice — Poynter

To Survive, Journalism Must Become Indispensable — Poynter

Editors giving SPJ voluntary ethics code an AI-era reboot

Poynter’s 2027 leadership track offers training for journalists at every stage of leadership

A New Book Looks at How AI Is Rewiring the Newsroom, for Better and Worse — Nieman Lab

AUDIENCE, ENGAGEMENT & REVENUE

Why Gen Z Is Turning to Radio for Trust, Belonging, and Community

Gen Z Isn’t Reading Your Site, Now What? — E&P

Asking Audiences for Money? Here Is How to Make a Stronger Case — Trusting News

What Happens When Content Creators and Journalists Come Together?

Here’s How Newsrooms Are Working With Influencers — Poynter

The Civic Action Toolbox Connects Local Reporting to Public Meetings, Comment Periods and the Officials Who Make Decisions — RJI

Design Events and Digital Spaces to Create — and Measure — Impact — American Press Institute

LION’s Revamped Resource Library Helps Local Publishers Grow Revenue, Audience, and Impact

Serving Audience and Community Was the Throughline at LMA’s Local Media Fest 2026 — E&P

California legislature passes a major local news funding bill: “If you hire more people, you get more money”

Why SFGATE launched an app instead of a paywall, and called it “Friends”

How to Build Social-First Data Visualizations — RJI

How AI Can Elevate Every Media Salesperson to Be a Better Marketing Consultant — E&P

Time’s AI-Only Ads May Be Marketing’s Next Frontier — MarTech

PRESS FREEDOM & MEDIA LAW

NEFAC Suing the Narragansett Police Department for Public Records

Three Years After Police Raid on Kansas Newspaper, Reporter Settles Lawsuit for $850K

Oppressive Freelance Contracts Add to the Chill on Journalism — Freedom of the Press Foundation

Has the Supreme Court Rendered the First Amendment’s Press Clause Invisible? — SCOTUSblog

More Than 800 USA Today Co. Employees Want the Company to End Its New Palantir Partnership — Nieman Lab

Stars and Stripes Journalists Facing Firing Get 1-Week Reprieve — Politico

New Hampshire Journalist Damien Fisher to Receive Freedom of Information Award

News/Media Alliance Statement on Google Ad Tech Remedies Ruling

How Mass Surveillance From Online Advertising Puts Journalists at Risk — CPJ