Headliners
- 3 in newsroom at Burlington (Vt.) Free Press laid off
- GateHouse parent’s Q3 report bucks bad-news trend
- GateHouse to add. chain-wide. 100 digital sales reps
- Fogler replaces Getler as publisher of Vt.’s Free Press
- Gannett ends bid to buy Tronc; Tronc’s stock sinks
- Vt. private nonprofit judged to be subject to public records law
- Conn, agency forgoes loophole to keep files secret
- Medford, Mass., zoning chief quits; meeting law ignored
- N.H. Gov. Hassan sued for withholding state contract files
- Boston Globe ends its Select program Dec. 31
- 3 in N.H. honored as advocates of First Amendment
- Nominees due Jan. 17 for FOI Award
- NENPA U. session on opioids set for Nov. 17 in Mass.
- N.E. Newspaper Hall of Fame nominations open
Transitions
MASSACHUSETTS
Obituaries
- Ruth Wolf Page
- Paul Christiansen
- James Mutrie Jr.
- Theresa ‘Terry’ (Ruff) Walsh
- Marjorie Fay Palm
- Nancy Shepard McClelland Wilson
- Eric C. Wilson
- John J. ‘Jack’ Ginnetti Jr.
- Eleanor C Woodbury
- Lillian Florence Losaw Misuraca
- Marie (Renzi) Sunderland
- Mary M. Murphy
- Edwin H. Pert
- Anthony P. Hmura
- Douglas D. ‘Daniel’ Sullivan
- James Patrick O;Connor Jr.
- Stanley K. Holmes
- Jeanette Severino Bouchard
- Virginia M. Allen
- Adelaide M. Marek
- John F. Buckley Jr.
- Wayne A. Barcomb
- Marie E. (Caswell) Roos
Briefs
Awards and Honors
Advertising News
- GateHouse to add 100 digital sales reps chain-wide
- Forecast: Native ads to supply 25% of revenue by 2018
- How Facebook is gaining revenue for some publishers
- Google, Facebook ads boom as other digital ads shrink
- Publishers sour on misleading ‘around the web’ ads
- Custom banner ads coming more into vogue
Advice
Financial News
Training
Mobile/Online News
- Globe, others gain from Apple News changes, traffic
- Hearst Newspapers adopt new data-driven digital plan
- Consumers of free news might also be willing to pay
- Email newsletters serving as test sites for new initiatives
- Mojo: Evolution of mobile journalism, and how-to tips
- Mic inaugurates video push notifications via mobile app
Social Media News
Legal Briefs
- Vt. private nonprofit ruled subject to public records law
- Medford, Mass., zoning chief quits; meeting law ignored
- Conn. agency uses loophole to keep water files secret
- N.H. judge KOs bid for release of dead woman’s name
- Vt. ACLU joins VTDigger in suing state for records
- Conn, agency buckles on loophole to keep files secret
- Conn. candidates asked to take open gov’t pledge
- N.H. Gov. sued for withholding state contract files
- Braintree cops use nuanced dodges to records requests
- New N.H. law prohibits campaign attire in polling places
- Vt. wrestles with open meeting law ???s in digital age
- Rolling Stone, writer of discredited rape story lose suit
- Wenner rejects Rolling Stone retraction of story
Industry News
- 3 laid off in Burlington (Vt.) Free Press newsroom
- 2 Vt. dailies restore 2 days in print, but drop Sundays
- Gannett ends bid to buy Tronc; Tronc’s stock sinks
- CEO: Tronc faces ‘bit of a restart’ as sale fizzles
- Possible Gannett buys weighed, post-Tronc bust
- History of Tribune-turned-Tronc under entrepreneur Ferro
- Newsonomics’ guarded view of newspapers’ future
- 11% projected ad decline in 2016 drives more cost cuts
- Job and other cuts loom at some large news firms
- 2 views of investigative journalism’s future, in extremis
- Maine mill to close papermaking machine, lay off 190
- Social media gain as news source; TV, print wane
- News Media Alliance chief reflects on year past
- AP’s next automated move: Print-to-broadcast conversion
- Clinton sets restrictive press rules on ‘free’ speeches
- A reminder about the basic tenets of journalism ethics
- Does newspapers’ future lie in subscriber-based past?
- A look at how robots might affect journalists’ jobs
- Why fact-checking should extend beyond politics
- Local news readers more likely to vote