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Seven Days wins awards. In 2020, we earned a number of them, including a national Edward R. Murrow prize for Investigative Reporting, an Innovation Award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, and a commendation from the New England Newspaper & Press Association naming us a New England Newspaper of the Year. This year, we also saw a dramatic surge in the number of readers willing to pay us to produce this work we listed more than 2,000 of them in last week s issue. We deeply appreciate their support. But the largest portion of
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How two nontraditional newsrooms in Vermont are winning readers
Could their examples hold the key to fixing âThe Expanding News Desertâ?
By Mark Shanahan Globe Staff,Updated December 28, 2020, 12:44 p.m.
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Anne Galloway wondered if her journalism career might be over.
It was January 2009 and the Sunday editor of the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus was among 16 employees abruptly laid off when the newspaperâs owner slashed positions in a round of budget cuts.
âI knew I wanted to stay in journalism,â says Galloway. âBut there werenât many jobs in the offing.â
Or any. All over Vermont, the story was the same: Newspapers were downsizing as readers in ever greater numbers were getting their news for free on the Internet, and advertising revenue â which sustained print journalism for two centuries â had dwindled to a trickle during the recession between 2007 and 2009.
December 11, 2020
The New England Newspaper & Press Association and New England First Amendment Coalition are excited to partner on an ad campaign, provided by the Free Speech Center, to recognize the birthday (Dec. 15, 1791) of the ratification of the Bill of Rights and First Amendment protection of freedom of the press.
“The First Amendment protects freedoms we need for a functioning democracy. Let’s celebrate its birthday by recognizing, among other rights, our ability to speak freely and publish widely. This is an opportunity for us all to remember how crucial these First Amendment freedoms are to our daily lives and how vulnerable we would be without them.” – Justin Silverman, Executive Director, New England First Amendment Coalition