{"id":26628,"date":"2020-02-24T18:47:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T23:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2020\/02\/24\/necc-student-attends-nenpa-event\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:47:23","slug":"necc-student-attends-nenpa-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2020\/02\/24\/necc-student-attends-nenpa-event\/","title":{"rendered":"NECC Student Attends NENPA Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22293\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2020\/02\/Jonas-Ruzek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22293\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22293\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2020\/02\/Jonas-Ruzek-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Jonas Ruzek at NENPA conference event \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jonas Ruzek, recently attended the New England Newspaper Convention in Bosotn<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\">Northern Essex<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/learn\/credit-programs\/communication-arts\/liberal-arts-journalismcommunication\/\">Liberal Arts: Journalism\/Communication<\/a> major Jonas Ruzek of Amesbury recently joined journalists and other newspaper professionals at the 2020 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nenpa.com\/events\/newspaper-convention\/convention-program\/\">New England Newspaper Convention<\/a> at the Boston Renaissance Waterfront Hotel, held Feb. 7-8 in Boston.<\/p>\n<p>Ruzek writes for Northern Essex\u2019s student newspaper the \u201cObserver.\u201d He has a 4.0 GPA and is on track to graduate in May.<\/p>\n<p>The annual event is sponsored by the New England Newspaper &amp;\u00a0Press Association. More than 600 newspaper people from around New England attended including speakers, students, and newspaper reporters, editors, and photographers.<\/p>\n<p>The convention featured awards ceremonies, luncheons, and a variety of educational seminars including &#8220;Effective Interviews: Planning and Execution, &#8221; with Mike Donoghue, President of Vermont News First, who discussed how to report on an issue and how to work sources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/newsroom\/2020\/02\/24\/necc-student-attends-nenpa-event\/\">Dave Rattigan<\/a>, NECC professor of public relations and public speaking, also attended the conference.<\/p>\n<p>NECC offers an associate degree in liberal arts: journalism\/communication that prepares students for entry level positions in the communication industry or for transfer to a four-year college or university.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Essex journalism\/communications major Jonas Ruzek of Amesbury, recently joined journalists and other newspaper\u00a0professionals at the\u00a02020 New England Newspaper Convention at the Boston Renaissance Waterfront Hotel, held Feb. 7-8 in Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":26630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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