Yankee Quill award winners announced

PROVIDENCE – Edward Achorn, vice president/editorial pages a at The Providence Journal, is one of four New England journalists who will receive the Yankee Quill award this fall for their contributions to journalism in the region.
Achorn is honored for his commitment to fighting against government waste and corruption through editorials that incited change, as well as advocating for the underprivileged and speaking to the public and teaching about the value of an informed citizen to a democratic society.
The Academy of New England Journalists, a coalition of Quill award winners and representatives of New England journalism organizations, present the Yankee Quill awards annually. The academy is supported by the New England Society of News Editors, a society that supports and trains news editors in the six-state region.
The Quill is awarded based on the lifetime achievement of broad influence for good over the course of a career.
Maura Casey, an editoral writer at the Hartford Courant and The New York Times; Brian McGrory, the Boston Globe’s editor; and Lincoln McKie Jr., a journalism professor at Northeastern University and former executive editor of the Lowell Sun and managing editor of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, also are honored.
Achorn and the other honorees will be presented with the Yankee Quill awards at the New England Society of News Editors and the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s annual conferences on Oct. 6 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Natick, Mass.
For information about the Yankee Quill awards, contact Bill Ketter, chairman of the Academy of New England Journalists at (978) 946-2233 or email wketter@cnhi.com, or George Geers, clerk at the Academy of New England Journalists at (603) 785-4811 or email gnews@empire.net.

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