Headliners
- R.I. school fined $1,000 for breaking public records law
- VTDigger: Vt. Gov. Shumlin puts lid on public records
- Transit agency in Mass.’s ‘abysmal’ stonewalling on files
- Globe’s STAT adds subscription service
- Maine daily urges openness on state private-firm pacts
- Mass. college calls cops on reporter in flag burning flap
- Connecticut court to decide if insults were free speech
- Boston’s MuckRock adds free tools site FOIA Machine
- Mass. IT agency uses ‘public safety’ excuse to hide files
- Boston’s Burst melds user videos with client platforms
- Northeastern among 49 J-schools in Google News Lab
- N.H.’s Loeb School lists its 2017 workshop schedule
- Registration open for BU’s March narrative workshop
Obituaries
- Robert O.Y. Warren III, former chairman of The Suffield (Conn.) Observer
- Brian R. Mahoney, editor in chief of South Boston Today
- Phyllis Austin
- Robert H. ‘Bob’ Zaiman
- Susan Taz
- Jefferson D. ‘Jeff’ Ackor Sr.
- Nubar Berberian
- Ann Allen Brahms
- Stephen Harvey Mazurka
- Carl F. Furtado
- Eugene J. Maxwell Sr.
- Pentti M. Laine
- Joan M. (Sughrue) Dunlevy
- Nancy L. (Albert) Gallucci
- Joan Elizabeth McCarthy
- Mildred E. Plank
Transitions
MASSACHUSETTS
- Alan English appointed publisher of Pittsfield-based New England Newspapers Inc.
- Martin Langeveld
- Edward L. Woods
- Charlie Mansbach
VERMONT
- Patricia M. Sears named publisher of the Newport Daily Express, replacing Ken Wells
- Ken Wells
- Olga Peters
Briefs
Awards and Honors
Advertising News
Advice
Training
Mobile/Online News
- How users are responding to mobile news alerts
- Study: Most on smartphones getting alerts like them
- Globe’s not-yet-profitable STAT adds subscriptions
- Boston’s Burst melds user videos with client platforms
- Study: Google search results slant to politically liberal
- Survey-based look at who, why of online commenting
- HTTPS better for security, privacy, search rankings
Social Media News
- Free-speech problems are inherent on social networks
- Facebook a major referrer to hyperpartisan, fake sites
- Facebook surveying users on accuracy of headlines
- Google deemed outdoing Facebook in vetting fake news
- An argument against Facebook doing fact-checking
- Can good journalism drown social media’s fake news?
- Trump win seen as 1 marker of social media’s influence
- Snapchat grows in popularity, except with press
- Snapchat change reduces traffic for Discover publishers
- Publishers finding success with news on Instant Articles
Legal Briefs
- Mass. AG Healey negates state’s pro-disclosure ruling
- Mass. AG sues 3 DAs to release public records
- R.I. school fined $1,000 for public records violation
- VTDigger: Vt. Gov. Shumlin puts lid on public files
- R.I. gov asks court to hide files in Schilling-firm probe
- Mass. transit agency continues stonewalling on files
- Website seeks files on Mass. National Guard lead issue
- Boston cops’ new software to scan social media
- Maine daily urges openness on state private-firm pacts
- Mass. IT agency uses ‘public safety’ excuse to hide files
- Trump’s flag-burning sanction apes toothless Vt. law
- N.H. Union Leader lauds winner of e-records case
- Conn. court to decide if insults were free speech
- N.E. papers among those filing FOIA bids since 2001
- R.I. solons seek detour for panhandling’s protection
Industry News
- Boston’s MuckRock adds free tools site FOIA Machine
- Mass, college calls cops on reporter about flag burning
- Wesleyan’s student paper among those threatened
- Globe editor steadfast on sustaining Spotlight team
- New AP news chief vows faster news bits, survival help
- Nat’l news ass’n asks Trump for press-favored changes
- Newspaper group survives, grows as unusual nonprofit
- Advice and growing efforts to ferret out fake news