Linda Lotridge Levin, professor emerita of journalism at URI, is one of six journalists being inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame (NENPA) Hall of Fame later this month. NENPA is the professional trade organization for newspapers in the six New England states, and its Hall of Fame recognizes the most outstanding newspaper professionals from the region.

Levin has been a faculty member in the Department of Journalism at URI since 1983. A graduate of Michigan State University and Boston University, Professor Levin began her career as a reporter and photo editor for The Providence Journal in the 1960s. She went on to become an award-winning freelance writer specializing in health, medicine, and travel; author of a nationally syndicated health and medicine column; writer of travel stories for magazines and newspapers; and editor of two books on Rhode Island history. She has spent the last decade writing about First Amendment issues, in particular the area of access to public information, and is the author of several books and monographs and a number of newspaper and magazine articles. 

She has been a fellow of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the American Press Institute and the Annenberg Washington Program, and she has received three grants to work with journalists — first in the Soviet Union and then in Russia. She is a former president of the Rhode Island Press Association and is a board member and founder of ACCESS/Rhode Island, a coalition of organizations devoted to open government. In 1999, she was given the Yankee Quill Award by the New England Society of Newspaper Editors and the New England Society of Professional Journalists and was inducted into the Academy of New England Journalists.

The NENPA Hall of Fame awards will be presented on Friday, April 29, 2022 at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel. For more information, please click here.