Presses rolled early this week as the Vineyard Gazette printed 20,000 copies of an investigative report for the Public Herald, a nonprofit investigative journalism site based in Pittsburgh, Pa.
The Vineyard Gazette and photographers who shoot regularly for the newspaper will present some of their best work at a monthlong exhibit at Featherstone Center for the Arts.
Eyes of the Island, an exhibit featuring 40 years of Vineyard Gazette photography, runs from Sept. 24 until Oct. 22 at Featherstone Center for the Arts.
The Vineyard Gazette won 39 awards this year from the New England Newspaper and Press Association, including top prizes for environmental reporting, photography and multimedia storytelling.
The Vineyard Gazette announced late yesterday the purchase of Martha’s Vineyard Magazine from WEM Publishing Inc. The newspaper will take control of the magazine effective June 1.
William E. Marks, publisher and founder of the five-year-old publication, will bring out his last issue of the magazine late this month. The first issue of the magazine under Gazette direction will appear on newsstands and in the mailboxes of subscribers in July.
The Vineyard Gazette has established a Worldwide Web page on the Internet. This service for customers and friends of the Vineyard gives readers from here and abroad an opportunity to connect to the newspaper in a new way.
For the Vineyard Gazette, the change to a new production computer system this spring has been as profound as the transition, two decades ago, from hot metal type to offset printing.