Events
A one-day seminar for Boston’s neighborhood and community reporters, Making the Most of Your Local Advantage was designed to aid neighborhood, ethnic and cultural newspapers seeking to excel in local news coverage. The event was hosted by the Nieman Foundation in conjunction with Alliance for Community Journalism in October 2007.
Speakers were Ben Montgomery and Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times; Constance Hale, director of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism; Nieman Fellows Mary Newsom, Dean Miller, Kate Galbraith, James Baxter, Joshua Benton and Olivera Perkins; and Leith Sharp, director of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative.