Foundation re-examines its mission and goals.A strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and brainstorming session was held by the board of the Newsletter & Electronic Publishers Foundation to re-examine re·ex·am·ine also re-ex·am·ine tr.v. re·ex·am·ined, re·ex·am·in·ing, re·ex·am·ines 1. To examine again or anew; review. 2. Law To question (a witness) again after cross-examination. its mission statement and to determine future activities that the board should undertake in order to be of the most benefit to the newsletter industry and the Association. The Foundation was established 18 years ago by the NEPA board to advance the "interest of for-profit subscription newsletters and specialized information services See Information Systems. ... to promote excellence in newsletter journalism... and to enhance the newsletter industry." The one-day session at the Hudson Hotel in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on Dec. 11th was led by the Foundation's president, Michael P. Mealey, and NEPA executive director Patti M. Wysocki. The decisions taken by the board will be presented to the NEPA membership during the coming months. The Foundation has an active college scholarship program (including one in the name of Howard Penn Hudson, a founder of the Association and former publisher of NL/NL). The Foundation is also responsible for the annual Newsletter Journalism Awards Program for excellence in editorial quality. In 1999, NEPF exhibited at the annual meetings of the Association of Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the Society of Professional Journalists
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ, formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi . Since 1994, the Foundation has worked closely with the Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism (often just called Medill) is one of the premier journalism, integrated marketing, and media schools in the United States. at Northwestern University, which has focused more on the newsletter industry than any other journalism school in the country. Northwestern completed a research project on the newsletter industry that was funded by a $50,000 grant from publisher Len Eiserer of Business Publishers Inc. The Foundation, as of June 2000, had more than $260,000 in assets. |
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