For the second consecutive year, The Suffolk Times captured the Newspaper of the Year award in the New York Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. For the first time, the paper swept the top two awards by also winning the Stuart C. Dorman Award for Editorial Excellence. (more…)
After winning nine first-place awards between editorial coverage and advertising, The Suffolk Times captured the 2017 Newspaper of the Year award in the New York Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. It’s the first time The Suffolk Times has won the honor since the award was created in 2013. READ
For the fourth consecutive year, Times Review Media Group, publishers of The Suffolk Times, took home more awards than any other newspaper group from the New York Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest, earning a total of 69 awards.
Times Review Media Group, publisher of The Suffolk Times, took home 66 awards in the New York Press Association’s 2015 Better Newspaper Contest, the results of which were announced this past weekend.
This photo of the Mattituck baseball team celebrating a come-from-behind victory won in the sports feature photo category in the New York Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. (Credit: Garret Meade, file)
Nine years ago, I attended my first New York Press Association convention.
I had just joined Times Review Media Group as a reporter and had no idea what to expect. What I found was a lot of newspaper people scared of the big, bad Internet.
With putting newspapers out each week, we have no way of updating a website, folks said. This is impossible. We will all go out of business. (more…)
Times/Review staff members accept the Stuart C. Dorman Award for Editorial Excellence from the New York Press Association. Pictured are general assignment reporter Paul Squire, government reporter Tim Gannon, education reporter Jennifer Gustavson, environmental reporter Carrie Miller, executive editor Grant Parpan, editor Michael White, features writer Rachel Young, managing editor Joseph Pinciaro, web editor Joe Werkmeister, publisher Andrew Olsen and account executive Joseph Tumminello.
Of the more than 60 awards handed out each year by the New York Press Association, only one judges a newspaper from cover to cover. Writing, advertising, photography and design are all measured when the Past Presidents’ Award for General Excellence is judged.
For the first time since 1999, The Suffolk Times has claimed first place general excellence in the contest’s largest circulation division.
Andrew Olsen
Times/Review Newsgroup publisher Andrew Olsen began his yearlong term as president of the New York Press Association’s board of directors last week.
As president, Mr. Olsen said, he will continue training and guidance for publishers across New York state to “help increase their level of journalistic excellence.” He also plans along with the board to create a human resources hotline that any employee of NYPA’s 761 member newspapers will be able to call for help or guidance with a work-related issue.
“I’ve been active on the NYPA board for years and have always found that you get out of an organization what you put into it,” Mr. Olsen said. “Much of the success within my company is tied in some way to training, ideas or other resources provided by NYPA.”
Mr. Olsen, 43, became co-publisher of Times/Review Newsgroup in May 2003, when Joan and Troy Gustavson, the parents of Mr. Olsen’s wife, Sarah, retired as co-publishers. Mr. Olsen was named sole publisher in 2009 and ownership of the company was transferred to the Olsens in January. He has served on NYPA’s board of directors for about 10 years.
The Gustavsons had owned Times/Review Newsgroup, formerly known as Times/Review Newspapers, since 1977. Times/Review publishes The Suffolk Times, Riverhead News-Review, The Shelter Island Reporter, Long Island Wine Press, numerous tourism and special-interest magazines and the websites associated with those publications — including northforker.com, a lifestyle, travel and leisure blog launched in May.
“I have a strong management team here at Times/Review, which will help me actively participate in board and association responsibilities,” Mr. Olsen said. “We have a very engaged and talented board that is striving to do great things over the next year.”
NYPA executive director Michelle Rea said she’s looking forward to working with Mr. Olsen during his one-year term.
“We’re always looking for leadership that’s going to make the newspaper industry sustainable and take us to the next place that we’re going,” she said. “I think Andrew leading the helm sets a good example for newspaper publishers across the state. He’ll help guide NYPA so that we can provide the right kind of services to newspapers.”
A Cutchogue resident, Mr. Olsen is a graduate of Southold High School and the University of Richmond (Va.). Before joining Times/Review, he was a vice president at Lowe, Lintas & Partners, an advertising agency in New York City. He is a former chairman of the East Marion Fire Department and recently transferred to the Cutchogue Fire Department. He also coaches youth baseball and basketball on the North Fork. Earlier this month, he was elected to the board of directors of East End Arts in Riverhead.
According to its website, NYPA was founded in 1853 to help publishers of small newspapers meet the needs of their communities more effectively by providing better information for their readers. Its membership includes 727 weekly community newspapers, 58 dailies and 147 culturally specific newspapers.