Jane Havsy of the Daily Record in Rockaway, New Jersey, is the recipient of the 2025 Donn Walden Leadership Grant to attend the APSE Summer Conference in Minneapolis.
Havsy, who’s been with the paper since 2000, is a former APSE Diversity Fellow and won two first-place awards in the 2024 APSE Contest in Division D.
“I am honored to be selected for the Donn Walden Leadership Grant,” Havsy said. “I did not know Donn personally, but I did know of his longtime dedication to local sports journalism – and to APSE. I will try to uphold his legacy at the upcoming convention and throughout my career.”
Havsy is the third recipient of the grant, which awards $1,000 to a journalist from a small news organization to attend its summer conference in the memory of Donn Walden, the former sports editor of the Lewiston Tribune in Idaho. The grant was established after Walden, a staunch advocate for small newsrooms and their place in APSE, passed away in April 2023 at age 50.
This summer’s conference will be held June 26-28 at the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown in Minneapolis. To register for this year’s event, and reserve your space in the conference hotel, click on this link.
