W.B. Grimes & Company

April 1, 2010

New England Press Association Education Foundation



 

 

 

 

Brown’s winning campaign
for U.S. Senate includes
NENPA display ad service

By Jennifer Skala
Bulletin Correspondent

This winter, many Massachusetts residents became familiar with Scott Brown and his trusty pickup truck because of Brown’s television advertisements in his successful campaign for the U.S. Senate.

But newspaper readers throughout Massachusetts got a closer look at Brown thanks to a prominent print advertising campaign that used services from the New England Newspaper and Press Association.

On Jan. 17 and 18, Brown’s campaign ran a full-page, full-color advertisement in 23 Massachusetts dailies, coordinated at no additional cost through NENPA’s display advertising service. The “Open Letter to the People of Massachusetts” ad appeared in dailies across Massachusetts in the two days before the special election Jan. 19 to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a Democrat. Brown, a Republican state senator in Massachusetts, won the U.S. Senate election with 51.9 percent of the vote. MORE >


OVERVIEW

NENPA weds workshops, awards in first convention

KEYNOTE

Keynote speaker urges change,
relevance for newspapers

ADVERTISING

Advertising more important
to business in down economy

Study: Local news, ads
in newspapers still in demand

MANAGEMENT

Event management might hold
key to sources of $$$$

Nonprofit news model
plausible but difficult

Immediacy essential in managing inevitable change

Accurate, fast, cost-effective tool for measuring market

Matchbin strives to fortify online sites' ties to market

Financial freefall means papers using more freelancers

DESIGN

While downsizing size of pages, spruce them up too

PHOTOS

General excellence award winners

NEWS

Good heads inspire smiles

NEWS AND THE LAW

Avoid legal liability by avoiding
changes to online user comments

MULTIMEDIA

Videos exemplify rule of storytelling: Show, don't tell

Social media must be part of marketing mix

Audio adds emotion, content to storytelling

Visual reporting important for history and,
more and more, for the here and now

In multimedia age, taking risks is sometimes worth it

Consumers going mobile, papers must be on board

ONLINE

Study: Allow online comment
but put brakes on its excesses

Globe editors: Gear all your
online editing to engage readers

SPORTS

Rewards of covering too much
with too little worth the work

Master message, and new media will help deliver it

REPORTING

Wanted: Assertive inquisitors, not secretaries,
for intensive coverage of local government


Other Story
Cotter named NENPA's new executive director
News Digest


Pay cuts, furloughs at Eagle-Tribune, sister papers
Globe union raps higher '09 compensation for Times execs
SPJ makes Digital Media Handbook available free


Journal Register chief says it will add news, sales jobs|
Publishers shed debt in reorganizations, avoid bankruptcy
Gannett says its finances improving, jacks up execs' pay
Pew: Papers' % decline in jobs, ads in double digits in '09
2009 worst year for newspaper ad revenue since 1985
Decline in overall ad sales lessened in 4th quarter
Reach of GlobalPost on rise a year after launch


Boston.com adds weekday video news segment
Boston Globe, T&G Web sites still free, for now
Patch.com adds foundation to fuel local news Web sites
Pew study: Readers don't want to pay for online news
Mobile phone apps staking out newspapers' traditional turf
Online readers spend less time on news than print readers
Facebook squeaks past Google as most visited Web site
Twitter lags in pushing traffic to news Web sites
Google envisions mobile ad rates exceeding desktops
Twitter to be usable on some other Web sites


ABC task force widens definition of circulation


Phyllis HughesRobert K. O'Neill
  Appreciation: Our dear Phyllis
Michael B. GaydoWilliam James Ballestrini
Lawrence Pinkham Dorothy Chapman
Barbara ShermanWarren Newell Genthner
Rosemarie DevinePaul J. Cartier Jane A. Solari


• CONNECTICUT - Ed CondraMark Aldam
Rob PazdziorkoTilda Renza Jones
• MASSACHUSETTS - Rob BorkowskiPhil Salisbury
Steve Fainaru


Maine Press Ass'n joins in move to improve access law
Obama's transparency fares little better than Bush's


7 Boston Globe staffers win Nation Headliner Awards
AP Sports Editors honor 9 N.E. newspapers in 2009
Globe series named a top 10 journalism work of decade
2 Boston papers win national education reporting honors
Globe's Julian nominated for Beard food section award


Canada's 1st recycled newsprint plant closes after 20 years

Columnists

Writing
Think logically, act editorially
Jim Stasiowski

Just Design
Handling design change
Ed Henninger

Ad-libs
Swap glittering generalities for specifics
John Foust

Technology
Questions for Kevin
Kevin Slimp

Commentary

Push for privacy shouldn't come
at expense of other freedoms

Gene Policinski,
Inside the First Amendment

Let the sun shine in
-- on government
Tom Kearney


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