Vineyard Gazette editor Julia Wells, who has chronicled the evolution of Martha’s Vineyard over four decades, has been named to the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame.
Hospice of Martha’s Vineyard, which provides care and comfort to Island families at the end of life, has been named the beneficiary of the Vineyard Gazette’s annual holiday subscription promotion.
At the Gazette’s monthly off-season speaker series, Tuesdays in the Newsroom, Gazette archivist and librarian Hilary Wallcox highlighted that collection, offering rare insights into nearly two centuries of news coverage.
An unexplained surge of traffic to Vineyard Gazette websites Tuesday caused vineyardgazette.com to go down briefly just after noon and remain slow for several hours.
The Time Machine, the Vineyard Gazette’s online display of historical stories and photos, won Best Digital Innovation Award Thursday from the New England Society of Newspaper Editors.
The Vineyard Gazette won 32 awards, including 13 first place honors, for excellence in journalism in the annual New England Better Newspapers Competition.
