by NPWAdmin | May 6, 2024 | Awards, Contests, Conventions, Education, News
Ten winners in the 2024 NPW High School Communications Contest were recognized during the spring conference lunch. Students attending were from Hastings High, Gretna East, Bellevue West and Adams Central. Twenty-three first-place entries in the Nebraska Press Women...
by NPWAdmin | May 6, 2024 | Awards, Conventions, Hall of Fame
A veteran small town newspaper editor and publisher and a college news bureau director and journalism instructor were the 2024 inductees into the Marian Andersen Nebraska Women Journalists Hall of Fame this weekend. Ceremonies were conducted Saturday night during the...
by NPWAdmin | Oct 2, 2023 | Awards, Contests, Conventions, News
Nine NPW members won 30 awards collectively in the NFPW Professional Communications Contest. The awards were presented June 24 at the annual NFPW conference in Cincinnati. Three members won first place awards: Erica Pritchard received two for her photography, both...
by NPWAdmin | Sep 4, 2023 | Conventions, Events, News, Professional Development
Come explore the past and present in journalism at the 2023 Nebraska Press Women’s fall conference in Gothenburg on Saturday, Oct. 14. The guest speaker lineup will feature a presentation on Kearney’s first female journalist and two authors who will address the pros...
by NPWAdmin | Jul 4, 2023 | Awards, Conventions, News
Barb Bierman Batie of Lexington, Neb., has been named the runner-up for the 2023 Communicator of Achievement Award from the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW). Batie was recognized during a celebration at the organization’s annual conference held June 22-24,...
by NPWAdmin | Jul 4, 2023 | Awards, Contests, Conventions, Uncategorized
All three NPW Sweepstakes Award recipients in the Nebraska Press Women Communications Contest this year are from central Nebraska. The three and their placements include: Mary Jane Skala, Kearney Hub lifestyle writer and columnist, first; Lori Potter, Kearney-based...
