WNPA Convention & Awards Dinner 2025
The 139th Annual WNPA Convention & Awards Dinner has an exciting line-up of workshops, speakers and events, bringing together Washington State's community newspapers' editors, publishers, reporters, photographers and designers. This year we're also providing one-on-one consulting to newspaper publishers and general managers by Fran Wills, CEO of Local Media Consortium (LMC), and David Arkin, national media consultant.
Come Friday evening to connect with colleagues during our reception and stay Saturday to enjoy workshops and our auction, supporting the WNPA Foundation internship program, and the annual awards dinner, celebrating the winners in the Better Newspaper Contest.
Plan to sign up for the one-on-one consultations with Fran Wills of the LMC and nationally recognized newspaper consultant David Arkin. The two will help our publishers identify new opportunities to maximize what they already do best, aimed at increasing revenue.
Meeting of the WNPA Foundation Board of Directors, in-person and virtual.
Meeting of the WNPA Board of Directors.
Contact execdirector@wnpa.com to take advantage of this one-on-one time, and discover immediate opportunities to reduce costs and/or increase revenue.
Enjoy the Free Friday chance to join the community in a visit to Don Seabrook's exhibit at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center.
Join your WNPA members and colleagues for the annual reception, including no-host bar and hors d'oeuvres.
Enjoy a light breakfast, courtesy of the Wenatchee World, and learn about the organization's press operations.
The business meeting of the WNPA membership, including a brief update on the WSU Murrow's Fellows program.
Discover practical solutions to declining search engine referral traffic to cultivate direct audience relationships and sustainable traffic growth.
Hands-on workshop will help you learn AI tools to maximize your advertiser prospecting efforts.
Incorporating emotional intelligence into your workplace to make it happier and healthier for everyone.
From Native American to Latino communities, building trust for meaningful coverage comes with challenges. Learn from the direct experience of journalists doing that work.
Learn from the people using AI for positive benefit in news operations.
Contact execdirector@wnpa.com to take advantage of this one-on-one time, and discover immediate opportunities to reduce costs and/or increase revenue.
Build circulation with targeted sampling. Learn how with John Lester.
Meredith Jordan will make the case for a proactive response to attacks on journalism can shift public perception to a fuller appreciation of the work.
A photographer's opportunity for a one-on-one conversation and retrospect of Don Seabrook's work, guided by the photographer himself.
Timeless or trendy? Learn ad design tips & tricks to align with your clients' identity.
Benefit from your community’s generosity without making a wholesale shift to a nonprofit model.
Contact execdirector@wnpa.com to take advantage of this one-on-one time, and discover immediate opportunities to reduce costs and/or increase revenue.
Learn ways to empower remote workers for full engagement with your team.
Get more out of what you're already doing, and identify new opportunities for revenue.
Sometimes, the oldest tools in journalism—shoe leather, listening, and showing up—are still the most powerful.
Learn from WNPA's award winning photographer!
Learn the basics of AI to create efficiencies in your processes, whatever end of the newspaper production you're on.
Tried and true methods to attract advertisers.