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Bulletin photo by
Andrew McFarland
Guests at the table
of Foster’s Daily Democrat of Dover, N.H., celebrate its general
excellence award at the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s
awards banquet Saturday, Feb. 11, with Rod Doherty, executive editor,
at right.
Convention
workshops
serve as forerunner for
new NENPA University
By Samantha
Laine
Bulletin Staff
If those attending
the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s 2012 Convention
and Trade Show Feb. 10 and 11 left the Boston Park Plaza Hotel with
one understanding, it could be this: It’s time to upgrade even
more than before.
With 40 workshop
topics ranging from how to meet libel challenges head on to innovative
approaches to selling advertising to the best use of social media, the
convention drew together leading figures in the newspaper industry to
exchange strategies on how to improve and how to thrive in an increasingly
digital world.
Sessions resonated
with the idea that journalists need to put forth a great amount of effort
for journalism to survive.
“Newspapers
will change, and so will the world, but the bond will still be there,”
Oreste “Rusty” D’Arconte, NENPA’s outgoing president
and publisher of The Sun Chronicle of Attleboro, Mass., said at NENPA’s
annual meeting Saturday morning, Feb. 11.MORE
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Bulletin
photo by Ryan McMahon
Patrick Cassidy
gestures in celebration of his repeat victory this year as the New England
Newspaper and Press Association’s journalist of the year for dailies. |
