We are excited to announce the program for the New England Newspaper Conference, taking place on Thursday, December 8, 2022.

We have a top-notch program of speakers and sessions that will cover the most relevant topics to the health of our industry today!

This year’s fall conference will be a one-day event, held online, with sessions throughout the day.

We’ll also announce the winners of the New England Newspaper of the Year, Publick Occurrences, Allan B. Rogers Editorial Award, New England First Amendment Award, AP Sevellon Brown New England Journalist of the Year, and Bob Wallack Community Journalism Award.

We invite you to join us in learning from nationally known experts in the media industry. We’re also looking forward to honoring and cheering on the exceptional award-winning publications and journalists!

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Newspaper Conference Program

Keynote – New Models for Sustainable Local Newspapers
December 8 @ 9:00 am EST

Jim Friedlich, CEO of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, the non-profit owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Spotlight PA, will discuss lessons and methods for sustaining local news through partnership, donor support, and digital transformation.

Revenue & Readership: Rescuing & Reviving Rural Journalism
December 8 @ 10:00 am EST

The need to create a new business model for the journalism industry became even more apparent during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Journalism researchers, Teri Finneman, Associate Professor/Founder, University of Kansas/The Eudora Times, and Joey Young, Owner / Publisher, Kansas Publishing Ventures have spent the past year collecting data from rural publishers and rural residents to create a proposed new model that is now in the experimental phase in Kansas. Come and learn about their findings to get ideas of what could work for you.

Announcement of Publick Occurrences Awards
December 8 @ 11:00 am EST

Presentation of the annual Publick Occurrences Awards, recognizing the finest work that New England newspapers produce each year in individual or team stories, series, spot news coverage, columns, or photojournalism that ran in print and/or online.

Public Programs: How the American Rescue Plan is helping to Rebuild Local News – and how you can participate!
December 8 @ 1:00 pm EST

Steven Waldman is the founder and president of Rebuild Local News, an organization that advocates for smart public policies for the future of the local press. He will be joined by Rebuild Local News manager for policy development, Anna Brugmann, to discuss public programs, such as those that leverage American Rescue Plan Act funds and municipal advertising budgets, that support local news outlets with funding that is already in local budgets.

Money Through Missions: Revenue Partners With a Purpose
December 8 @ 2:00 pm EST

In your community, there are people who want to address social issues such as health, literacy, safety, and more. Vicki Whiting has more than 20 years of experience helping hundreds of newspapers develop partnerships that produce significant revenue while also serving the community by expanding a newspaper’s revenue models to include transformational models in addition to transactional ones.

Announcement of Individual Awards and Newspapers of the Year
December 8 @ 3:00 pm EST

Presentation of the annual Allan B. Rogers Editorial Award, New England First Amendment Award, AP Sevellon Brown NE Journalist of the Year, Bob Wallack Community Journalism Award, and the New England Newspaper of the Year Awards.
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If you have any issues logging in, get an error message when trying to log in the first time, have problems purchasing tickets, or have other colleagues or staff members that need to be added to the NENPA community please contact Tara Cleary at t.cleary@nenpa.com.

If your newspaper isn’t a current member, you will still be able to request access to the online community and purchase tickets to an event at the non-member rate.