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Robert Turner, one of five New England journalists, honored at the 52nd Annual Yankee Quill Awards for their lifetime contributions...
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Some N.E. newspapers mute uncivil comments

There was a time when readers commenting online, encouraged to foster community involvement, had become one of newspapers’ worst nightmares. In the past, some anonymous commenters stepped out of line with vicious remarks and personal attacks. More recently, news websites have tightened their terms of service or changed the way comments are posted, to restrict open and anonymous commenting...

New England Society of Newspaper Editors Annual Awards

Photos of the following awards: Judith Vance Weld Brown Spirit of Journalism Award, Master Reporter, Master Photographer, Len Levin Master Copy Editor Award, Newsroom Rising Star, New England College Newspaper of the Year, Journalism Education Foundation of New England scholarship awards...

Speakers redefine Whitey’s self-image as 'good bad guy'

Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy did what Cullen said drives the subject of their book, notorious Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger, “absolutely crazy”: They defined the narrative of his life of crime. They did so in their book, “Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice,” and they did so in briefer form during their keynote speech May 2 at the 2013 New England Society of Newspaper Editors Journalism Awards Ceremony...

NESNE journalism awards honor a range from student to ‘Master’ in the industry

This year’s New England Society of Newspaper Editors Journalism Awards Ceremony had enough interesting angles to give even the most frustrated of lead writers easy choices...

For Ellsworth American’s Jesse Groening, a first year of firsts as a videographer

Jesse Groening, now 24, attended his first day of work at The Ellsworth (Maine) American Jan. 23, 2012. It was the first time that the American had hired a videographer and the first time a newspaper in Maine had hired a full-time videographer. Yet in his first year, Groening won five New England Newspaper and Press Association awards. At NENPA’s winter convention in February, he collected three first-place plaques and two second-place awards at NENPA’s awards banquet...

Balboni, two other men honored for their roles in defending 1st Amendment

In February 1967, Philip Balboni, now president and chief executive officer of GlobalPost, sat at his small desk in his small hotel room in Paris, applying for jobs at newspapers in the United States. He wrote all his letters and resumes on thin, blue paper and got his first job at the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. Since then, he has gone on to win “every major award possible in his field,” said Terrence Williams, president and publisher of the Telegraph Publishing Company, based in Nashua, N.H. And now Balboni has won another: the Stephen Hamblett First Amendment Award, presented at the New England First Amendment Coalition luncheon April 10 at the Seaport Hotel in Boston with about 130 people in attendance...

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