GSNC members were asked to speak about their experience with collaboratives and solutions journalism at the New England Newspaper and Press Association.

NENPA is proud to represent and serve more than 450 daily, weekly and specialty newspapers throughout the six-state region. It is the professional trade organization for newspapers in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island.

Partners Anna Berry (NH Bar News), Roger Carroll (Laconia Daily Sun), Kristen Nevious (Marlin Fitzwater Center for Communication at Franklin Pierce University) and GSNC project manager Melanie Plenda spoke of their experiences working collaboratively and the value of adopting a solutions journalism focus. The group was joined by Anne Karolyi (Republican American, CT) and Eugene Sonn (WHYY, PA) to discuss among other things strengthening local news through collaborative solutions journalism, the value of solutions journalism and how has it changed how local news organizations work; the value of collaboration and the impact working across media has inside the newsroom

The session began with Karolyi, managing editor of the Republican-American in Connecticut, and a founding partner of the SJN collaborative there. Leah Todd, New England Regional Manager for Solutions Journalism Network, GSNC’s fiscal sponsor, gave brief intro to solutions journalism and SJN's vision for collaboratives. Sonn, the audio news director for WHYY in Philadelphia, a founding member of The Reentry Project in that city also spoke about his experience there. This was followed by editors Carroll and Berry, collaborative project manager Plenda and academic partner Nevious recounting their experience so far in the New Hampshire collaborative.

For more information on GSNC contact Melanie Plenda at Melanie.Plenda@collaborativenh.org.