New England Press Association's News Roundup

July 2, 2009

	NENA-NEPA merger now official NENPA: Born on the first of July By Jennifer Skala Bulletin Staff Just in time for the celebration of the nation’s birthday, members of the former New England Newspaper Association and New England Press Association can mark the birth of their new, merged organization, the New England Newspaper and Press Association (NENPA). With the formal required paperwork filed July 1 with the Massachusetts secretary of state’s office, the organization is now operational. Robert Laska, president of the NENPA board of directors and retired publisher of the Connecticut Post of Bridgeport, told the Bulletin that the new board was excited about the future and what the new organization would be able to accomplish..MORE> NENPA changes awards format of its predecessors By Jennifer Skala Bulletin Staff Members of the New England Newspaper and Press Association (NENPA) will now have new and additional opportunities to enter deserving pieces into annual newspaper awards contests. The new awards format is a departure from the awards contests held by NENPA’s predecessor organizations, the New England Newspaper Association and New England Press Association. Under NENPA, individual journalists at member newspapers will now be able to enter their own work in NENPA’s awards contest, as long as their respective newspapers are also submitting entries for consideration. MORE>
	*Other Stories*
	Boston Globe, Guild reach agreement on concessions Guild members wary of new concessions, but predict that they'll be approved 2 prospective bidders to submit combined bid for Boston Globe T&G for sale by Times Co., perhaps packaged with Globe Photo essay on a backpack journalist	Connecticut Post, The Day, The News-Times top Connecticut SPJ awards Globe, Herald dominate Boston Press Photographers awards Women journalists see advancement as based soley on merit now Blethen Maine Newspapers sold to Pa. publisher; 31 laid off E-mail interviews: Easy, efficient and edged in peril
	*News Digest*
	• Boston magazine lays off six, seventh resigns as a result • Hartford (Conn.) Courant dumps redesign • Ex-Courant reporter gets 12 years for manslaughter • Boston Herald reporter charged with kicking elderly man • Ex-Globe Spotlight reporter writes book on cop cover-up • Not all teens giving up on newspapers • Escaped N.Y. Times reporter has New England roots, ties • Ex-Mass. police official caught in affair with reporter • Conn. public-access council re-elects Scheffey as president • 4 finalists named for N.E. environmental reporting award • MAINE - Jeannine Guttman, Scott Wasser, Eric Conrad, Chris Harte • MASSACHUSETTS - Christopher Rowland, Peter Canellos, David Ertischek, Wayne Braverman, Valentina Zic, Debra Filcman, Mark Cohen • Boston.com to use Pluck's SiteLife for social media • Boston establishes online site to show crimes and locations • Boston.com's Big Picture blog draws attention • Cape Cod Times press controls upgraded	• Lois L Gould • Edward Allen Matheson • Janemary F. Martell • David A. DeTurk • Raymond Librizzi • Ruth Deaton Kimball • William K. Paynter • Krikor Frank Minasian • Edward Heinstrom • Monsignor Thomas J. McDonnell • Eugene Salvaterra • Patricia Morrison • Mass. High Tech shifts focus to online, cuts 4 jobs • Small, medium-sized papers cost less than ever • Online newspaper archives expand to 22 states • Municipal lawyers, papers disagree on access changes • Mass. daily, 1st Amendment Center force release of files • Nashua (N.H.) Telegraph wins libel suit from 1999 story • Mass. weekly denied tour of public high school site • Half of N.E. states fail pols' financial disclosure test • AP lowering fees again, by $45 million in 2010 • Report: U.S. newspapers to lose $13 billion by 2013 • GateHouse Media coverage dropped by Morningstar • New Yahoo tool designed to target display ad
	*Columnists*
	Writing Time traveling to a better future for newspapers Jim Stasiowski Just Design The obvious deserves restating Ed Henninger	Ad-libs 10 surefire routes to Advertising Hall of Shame John Foust Technology Applying Handbrake to video file conversions Kevin Slimp
	*Commentary*
	Justice Souter: A man of few words, including 'no' Gene Policinski
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