About PSNE

Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors (PSNE) offers you the opportunity to network with editors statewide and find real solutions to the challenges you face. In your role as an editor, you are under the constant demands of fast-paced deadlines, newsroom management issues and ever-changing industry developments. PSNE offers editors the tools they need to meet these challenges with industry publications, conferences, legislative and legal action, seminars, workshops, contests

and more!

The benefits of PSNE...

For only $35 a year for daily newspapers or $30 a year for non-daily newspapers, as a PSNE member, you will:

Receive Headlines & Deadlines, an electronic weekly newsletter produced by PNA, reporting on issues in the newspaper industry, and PSNE Exchange, a bi-monthly electronic newsletter provided to PSNE members only;

PSNE e-mail list-serve -have other editors right at your fingertips through the PSNE e-mail list-serve;

Legal and Legislative Assistance - the legal hotline provides answers to your questions on open records, libel and open meetings on deadline from the PNA's media law counsel, and you will receive regular updates on current legislative activity and PNA's lobbying efforts effecting the newspaper industry;

Pennsylvania Press Conference - the largest gathering of newspaper editorial personnel in the state featuring sessions on timely topics and networking opportunities, as well as accolades for Keystone Press Award winners;

Keystone Press Awards contest - the state's leading competition for newsroom personnel annually attracts more than 4,000 entries in eight circulation divisions with 20+ categories. Winners are recognized at the annual awards banquet at the Pennsylvania Press Conference;

Special seminars/workshops - one-day seminars presented in newsrooms across the state and at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association are targeted to reporters and editors, with topics including journalism law, reporting techniques and writing & editing enrichment;

PSNE Committees - active committees dealing with industry issues, such as Open Records & Government Affairs, First Amendment initiatives, Freedom of Information, New Media and more;

And most importantly...help to safeguard the free flow of information in Pennsylvania!

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The purpose of the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors (PSNE) shall be to encourage the full and free dissemination of information of public interest without fear or favor, to strive to improve the standards of professional activity, to promote acquaintance among its members, to develop a stronger professional esprit de corps, to exchange ideas for the more effective application of professoinal labors, and to work collectively for the solution of common problems, in harmony with the precepts of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association and the American Society of Newspaper Editors.