Miami Herald Editor Wins Bradlee Award
Aminda (Mindy) Marqués Gonzalez of the Miami Herald is the winner of the National Press Foundation's Benjamin C. Bradlee Editor of the Year Award. Marqués, who is the president, publisher and executive editor of the Miami Herald Media Co., will receive the award at NPF's annual journalism awards dinner on Feb. 13, 2020. Read more about the award here. Information on the dinner can be found here.
Criminal Justice Training Fellows Announced
Congratulations to the journalists chosen to be Reporting on Criminal Justice fellows! On Nov. 10-12, NPF will train them in incarceration data, pre-trial justice, specialty courts, violence and weapons, implementation of the First Step Act, incarceration impact on families, re-entry into society and more. Fellows will then attend and cover the four-day American Society of Criminology conference on Nov. 13-16.
Support for this training comes from Arnold Ventures. NPF retains sole responsibility for programming and content.
Upcoming Training: Webinar
Covering Clean Energy and Politics
Nov. 5, 2019 at 1 p.m. EST
From this free one-hour webinar, journalists will better understand clean energy and climate change and the resources you need to cover these issues in an election year. Topics include: global trends and challenges, fuel diversity and government incentives and pressures.
Speakers:
• Jennifer Layke, director of global energy, World Resources Institute
• Ryan FitzPatrick, director of climate and energy, Third Way
• Blake Sobczak, deputy director, E&E’s Energywire
Support for this webinar is provided by Exelon Corp. NPF retains sole responsibility for programming and content.
Next Week: Paris Accords of Science Communication
Beginning this Sunday, NPF is training 25 journalists from the U.S. and E.U. on communicating science. The program will cover issues such as the neuroscience of hate, the science of pain, social determinants of health, childhood trauma and its lifelong impact and the plight of refugees and victims of human trafficking.
Make sure to check NPF's website for all the digital content and follow our Twitter and Instagram accounts for coverage! Our hashtag is #NPFScience.
ICYMI Resources
NPF Friends and Fellows
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing's fall conference is Nov. 12 at Reuters in Times Square. Conference sessions will give journalists the tools they need to understand and report on an economic downturn. Learn more and register here.
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