ESSEX COUNTY
Robert
Ambrogi, executive director of the Massachusetts Newspaper
Publishers Association (MNPA), will receive the Yankee Quill Award
this fall for his contributions to the betterment of journalism in
the six-state region. Ambrogi will be recognized for serving as the
founding editor of Lawyers USA and editor-in-chief of
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, and his relentless
commitment to the public's right to know through his blog posts and
consulting and his successful efforts in overhauling the open
meeting and public records law in Massachusetts as executive
director of the MNPA. The Yankee Quill is presented annually by the
Academy of New England Journalists through the auspices of the New
England Society of News Editors.
SUFFOLK COUNTY
Saraa Basaria has
joined MBA Honor Roll firm Todd & Weld LLP as a litigation
associate and will concentrate her practice on commercial
litigation, employment law and personal injury matters. Basaria is
president of the South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston and
is a member of the Board of Directors of the South Asian Bar
Association of North America. She is a 2017 graduate of the
Massachusetts Bar Association's Leadership Academy.
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