Headliners
- Buyouts being offered at Globe’s Boston.com
- 200 Massachusetts school chiefs deny public records
- N.H. town fined $200K for breaking right-to-know law
- Mass. courts halt online access to criminal files
- Globe selling its Dorchester HQ
- Conn. Law Tribune drops print, goes digital-only
- Mass. legislation would erase records for juvenile criminals
- Maine Gov. LePage KOs state rep’s public info request
- Conn. group stops printing its only newspaper in N.Y.
- Vt.’s Free Press wins 4 regional Murrow awards
- MuckRock’s primer on changes to Mass. public records law
- Boston police to test use of bodycams
Obituaries
- James N. Mason Jr.
- Timothy J. Dumont
- Barbara E. Burtoff
- Norman R. Wilson
- Eileen A. (Gingras) Tougas
- Martin John Lauer
- Robert Choate Shepherd
- Terrence T. Heffron
- Gustave A. ‘Gus’ Senkbeil Jr.
- Robert F. Frink
- James F. Burke Jr.
- Lorraine Ellen Dorey
- Velma A. Blanchard
- Florence Mildred Pallotto
- Catherine M. Morris
- Theresa M. Hamed
- Leslie Thomas Clark
Transitions
MASSACHUSETTS:
- Edward L. Woods resigns as chief executive officer and regional publisher of New England Newspapers Inc., based in Pittsfield. Martin Langeveld named acting publisher.
- David Skok leaving as managing editor and vice president, digital, at Boston Globe by end of year
- Anthony Bonfiglio
- Eleanor Cleverly
- Linda Pizzuti Henry
Briefs
Awards and Honors
- 4 journalists, late editor to be given Yankee Quill awards
- Burlington (Vt.) Free Press wins 4 Murrow awards …
- … and a national Murrow award for a sports video
- Globe’s Rinaldi in video discussing her winning work
- Conn. freedom-of-information honors for Smith, Savino
- Montville wins AP Sports Editors Red Smith Award
- 5 N.E. business publications win national recognition
- Conn. SPJ announces its 2015 award winners
- 13 Conn. SPJ charter members join Hall of Fame
- Mass. reporter wins novice journalist award, $1,000
- Alma mater awards Vt.’s Donoghue honorary degree
Advertising News
- Newspaper ads triple return on investment
- Digital ad spending to double by 2020, to $285 billion
- Survey: Ad blocker users desire control, convenience
- Publicity, new tools feeding ad blockers’ growth
- The benefits ad blockers provide for users
- New issue for podcasts: Ad skipping
- comScore: ‘Premium’ media justify their higher ad rates
- Advertisers shunning Twitter Moments
Advice
- Questions to ask before live-streaming incidents
- Creating a rapport in editing reporters’ copy
- Questions to coach reporters to ask before they write
- A checklist for better-quality fact checking
- 8 questions that could fix the focus of a story idea
- Cautions, suggestions in using public financial reports
- How subscriptions work best as business model
- Questions that underlie reporting on science studies
- How to separate push polls from scientific sampling
Mobile/Online News
- Revenue from mobile video said to be $25B by 2021
- Buyouts being offered at Globe’s Boston.com
- Globe’s STAT runs inventive teaser for genome series
- 50 ways to assess different types of online analytics
- Report: Text highly favored over news videos online
- Publishers increasingly turn to automated online videos
- The benefits and drawbacks of automated news reports
- How the Internet of Things could affect journalism
Social Media News
- Twitter partners with CBS to live-stream conventions
- Twitter adding to its live-streaming offerings
- Facebook Live becoming broadcast channel for civilians
- Sullivan: Live videos add to social media as publishers
- Facebook’s algorithm guidance could hurt publishers
- Impact of Facebook shift to favor friends’ posts unclear
- Likely winners, losers in Facebook algorithm change
- Doctor dampens overreaction to Facebook change
- Disasters bring out worst in social media: False stories
- Facebook live videos appear to extend audience reach
- Facebook sets aside $2.2M for celebrity live videos
- Facebook testing downloading videos for offline views
- 5 problems Facebook seen as facing
- Social media drives best results for publishers’ video
- Why is Twitter reluctant to add an editing function?
Legal Briefs
- 200 Mass. school chiefs deny files; training ordered
- Mass. courts shut down online access to criminal files
- N.H. town fined $200K for breaking right-to-know law
- R.I. law to beef up school press, speech rights KO’d
- Brockton, Mass., mayor keeps police job finalists secret
- Mass. legislation would erase juvenile criminal records
- Maine Gov. LePage KOs state rep’s public info request
- MuckRock’s ongoing battle for gov’t transparency
- MuckRock adding database to ease FOIA appeals
- MuckRock’s primer on changes to Mass. records law
- Obama’s FBI still uses secret rules to spy on journalists
- Fed appeals court limits release of mug shots
- Fed court: Gov’t files on private emails subject to FOIA
- White House press question Hillary, Trump openness
- Boston police to test use of bodycams
- ACLU sends bodycam models to 40 Mass. cop depts.
- Backlogs, exemptions next targets to improve FOIA
- Hillary’s secret emails show her disregard for FOIA
- Chronology of major FOIA milestones at its 50th year
- How live streaming affects, might change, privacy law
- Critics: Ginsburg injudicious in her Trump comments
- ACLU battles limits on journalistic, research practices
Industry News
- Conn. Law Tribune drops print, goes digital-only
- Conn. group stops printing its only N.Y. newspaper
- Retrospective on end of Guy Gannett’s Maine empire
- Product shifts aimed at salvaging Maine’s 6 paper mills
- N.E. college papers stonewalled by campus activists
- How print newspapers can rekindle readers’ enthusiasm
- Gannett’s acquisition challenge: Not cutting too much
- Doctor sees Tronc shifting stand against sale to Gannett
- Gannett exec on strides made by USA Today Network
- What larger papers can learn from smaller counterparts
- Pew profiles today’s news consumer
- Publications fail in integrating data work in newsrooms
- A call for broader, deeper, tougher business reporting
- Most value news outfits’ watchdog role, but see bias
- Daily media consumption tops 10.5 hours