Headliners
- Alan White, editor at Eagle-Tribune, is dead at 68
- Providence proposal would ban delivery of free newspapers
- Hearst to centralize Conn. group in Norwalk office
- Globe plans reorganization of its news outlay
- Vt. AG to keep secret the report on five teen deaths
- A third of Conn. school chiefs evaluated in secret
- Court: Public may view questioning of Mass. teacher-killer
- Providence police: limit acccess to bodycam footage
- Vt. Gov. Shumlin reins in public files as he exits
- N.H. makes private meeting minutes more thorough
- Gunshot kills Maine columnist in ‘accidental tragedy’
- GateHouse in Mass. offers news to vision-impaired
- Conn. AG withheld tape of Hartford cop who kicked aman
Obituaries
- Alan J. White, executive editor of Eagle-Tribune of North Andover, Mass.
- Harry B. Thayer III, former vice president, treasurer of Exeter (N.H.) News-Letter Co.
- Doris (Lapan) McKoan, former co-owner, co-publisher of Valley Times of Pittsfield, N.H.
- Walter Edward Mattson, former president, chief operating officer of New York Times
whose newspaper career began in New England - David Michael Jrolf
- Raymond James Siegler
- Marion Remah
- Gerald E. ‘Jerry’ Watson
- Grace Helm
- Michael D. Harmon
- Rachel Halmesmaki Lahti
- Marilyn C. Childs
- Meggan Clifford Clark
- Thomas M. Reilly
- Audrey Long Grasso
- Bernice Arlene (Bates) Rabideau
- Christopher Robert Harding
- Elaine Priscilla (Alden) Kennedy
- Paul Surette
- Raymond F. Messier
- Arnold Field
- Sarah Higginson Begley
- John David Ober
- Daniel D. Price III
- Herbert H. Palmer
- Theresa H. (Eringi) Mazzelli
- Karen Bienvenue
- Joseph S. ‘Papa’ Tomczyk
- John M. ‘Jack’ Radigan
- Josephine Alice (Manganello) Deary
Transitions
MASSACHUSETTS
- Gayle Fee
Briefs
Awards and Honors
Advertising News
- Mass. deal ended there an ongoing fight over legal ads
- Mobile, video leads surge in digital ad growth
- Facebook said to allow mid-roll video ads, share ad $$
- A recap of the course of ad blocking in 2016
- Fake news and other banes of advertising online
- An argument for why ad-driven media will survive
- Mainstream sites’ ad-tech use twice that of fake sites
- Shafer: Craigslist wrongly blamed for classifieds’ death
Advice
- 22 suggestions for attracting users and subscribers
- Roy Peter Clark’s 40 writing lessons learned in 40 years
- Retiring Clark recalls creating culture for better writing
- What to ask before undertaking editorial projects
- A big-city-turned-small-town journalist’s lessons learned
- Suggestions for the best mix for multimedia storytelling
- How typography contrasts can display news hierarchy
- Nine suggestions for fact-checking, verification
- Tips for proofreading copy
Training
Mobile/Online News
Social Media News
- Globe launches Facebook group page for subscribers
- Twitter hiring editors, moves toward news production
- Facebook adding Live Audio
- Fake news, video among 6 social media developments
- Facebook’s 2017: How to add ads to a flush base
- Twitter debuts live 360-degree interactive videos
- Facebook names ex-TV reporter news partnership head
- Twitter mulls adding editing, bookmarking functions
- Focus, human editors keep fake news off LinkedIn
- Vine gone as network, stays as app for Twitter videos
- Poynter’s chronological review of Facebook in 2016
- What Facebook knows about us but doesn’t tell us
- Twitter to add verified account designations to timeline
Legal Briefs
- Vt. AG to keep secret the report on five teen deaths
- Courant: Some Conn. school chiefs evaluated secretly
- Courant raps secret evaluations as ‘unacceptable’
- Recounting Vt.’s spotty record on public records access
- Conn. AG withheld tape of Hartford cop kicking man
- New Boston records czar has ruled against openness
- Mass. records chief quits before reforms takes effect
- Mass. public may view teacher-killer interrogation
- More access urged for Providence cop bodycams
- Providence cops: Limit bodycam footage access
- New Haven, Conn., cop rapped for seizing cameras
- Outgoing Vt. Gov. Shumlin reining in public records
- N.H. mandates nonpublic meeting minutes be thorough
- Mass. transit agency OKs no-bid contract in secret
- 6-year seal to be lifted on ex-Vt. Gov. Douglas files
- Vt. officials don’t track fed requests on illegal aliens
- Brockton, Mass., doubles fee for mayor’s emails
- R.I. Gov. Raimondo proposes reducing public hearings
- Cops to investigate arrest of New Haven, Conn., scribe
- New Haven, Conn., cop rapped for seizing cameras
- Athlete sues UConn over scholarship loss
- Judge rules for cop who seized imposter’s camera
- Conn. judge finds exception to student privacy law
- Mass. state agency makes data breaches public online
- NEFAC, others argue for release of federal mug shots
- Challenges for the First Amendment in the digital age
Industry News
- Providence proposal would ban delivery of free papers
- NEFAC, others oppose ban on 1st Amendment grounds
- Globe plans reorganization to ‘reinvent’ its news outlay
- GateHouse service offers news to vision-impaired
- Edmonds sees some positive signs on newspaper front
- Challenging Facebook, Google; other predictions for ’17
- A tour of newsrooms in the print-digital transition
- The dangers of ‘satellite reporting’
- After successful 2016, Washington Post adds 60 jobs
- Career paths grow for metrics, data analysis
- 150-plus journalism entities in U.S. are nonprofits
- A case for less press criticism, more local coverage
- 5 newspaper leaders look back at ’16, forward to ’17
- Editor: Opinion inserted in some N.Y. Times stories
- Times Insider’s ode to copy editors
- 366 links chronicling fact-checking in 2016
- Journalism grads share similarities, optimism for future
- Recode’s look ahead to 2017 in media, other business