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Listen to and view  highlights of the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s annual convention Feb. 5-6, 2010 in Boston.  New England News Forum director Bill Densmore audio recorded six sessions, all reached from a single URL for streaming or download.  Densmore also moderated a sesson on Non Profit journalism and there’s archived video of session, plus a page which lists the participants and some of the key narrative comments.  

Source: New England Society of Newspaper Editors

Full poll results are available on the NEFAC/Northeastern website:
www.northeastern.edu/firstamendment

The vast majority of New Englanders believe that having open access to the workings of government is important to citizenship and most favor toughening the laws that protect access, according to a poll of attitudes toward the First Amendment. Moreover, nearly nine out of ten New Englanders believe government agencies that wrongly withhold public records should pay the legal bills necessary to open them.

Are you concerned about a generation of youth who aren't paying attention to the news? Find out about at least a half-dozen initiatives in American classrooms to do something about it -- at a one-day Media/News Literacy symposium at MIT, in Cambridge, on Saturday, Oct. 24. For details of a key breakout session on Saturday at 10:30 a.m., go to: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Mit-media-literacy-jouranalism

BOSTON, Mass. - Dramatic declines in the quantity or quality of local news, and the impact on participatory democracy in New England communities were topics at a daylong collaboration among some 45 public officials, journalists and concerned citizens Sat., March 21.

The conference ran from 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Boston University's College of Communication.

"The New(s) England Revolution: From Politics to Courtroom to Classroom," a one day gathering, Saturday, April 7, 2007 -- Univ. of Mass. at Lowell. A kickoff event for the New England News Forum which aism to assist journalists and the public in broadening civic engagement and studying media change. Designed for teachers, journalists, local and political bloggers, community videographers and active citizens. Keynote speaker: Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas. For details go to the conference home page. Topics include blog coverage of the New Hampshire presidential primary; bloggers in courts and jail; shield laws; how news can advance civic education in schools; and the changing press-public relationship.