Headliners
- Owner of dailies in Conn. buys Willimantic daily
- GateHouse moving Framingham plant to other print sites
- Vt. Senate to act on proposed journalist shield law
- Mass. soon alone in keeping governor’s files secret
- Vt. editorial raps proposal to take legals from papers
- Mass., N.H. stories cited as in 20 best about FOIA
- Fed suit challenges Vt.’s secrecy on newly filed cases
- Why post-election secrecy of N.H. ballots should end
- Recap of Maine public-access efforts in past year
- Conn. legislator advocates for protecting access
- NEFAC, others argue for right to record police
- Profile of nonprofit independent site InDepthNH.org
- BU forum tackles issue of keeping journalists safe
- NESNE Journalism Career Fair April 6 in Dedham, Mass.
- Freelance writing workshop April 8 at N.H.’s Loeb School
Obituaries
- Philip Prescott Savory
- Victor Hugo Cuenca Borda
- Mark C. Merenda
- Ronald Wells Page
- Philip L. Pelletier
- Frances E. ‘Fraffie’ Welch
- Ruth Brower
- Bernard Clifford Decker Jr.
- Janina S (Smietana) Bryden
- Esther L. Shaw
- Susan Ann Keith Nichols
- James R. Marston
- Stephen M. Clooney
- Daniel H. Canfield
- Richard J. ‘Dick’ Briand
- James E. Jacques Sr.
- Claudia (Rossiter) Peterson
- Arthur C. Barschdorf
- George P. Gosselin
- Robert R. Guillemette Jr.
- Ruth Messier
Briefs
Awards and Honors
Advertising News
- Digital ad spending forecast to be up 18% in 2017
- Study: Fraud wastes 20% of digital ad spending’s $66B
- Some Google-YouTube ads end up on undesirable sites
- Struggle continues on quality vs. volume in ad placings
- Google vows to avoid undesirable ad placements
- Buyers skeptical about Facebook’s new ad-sourcing
Advice
Training
Mobile/Online News
- Videoshop app eases video editing on smartphones
- Study: Reader-chosen content preferred in enewsletter
- Personalizing enewsletters can bring trust, other value
- Some publishers moving to standalone niche news sites
- Some readers resistant to personalization of news
- How, why Google is deemed friendlier to publishers
- Publishers skeptical of Medium’s new subscription plan
Social Media News
Legal Briefs
- Mass. alone in U.S. in keeping governor’s files secret
- Pressure builds on Mass. gov to disclose his records
- Mass. candidate: Gov should be under records law
- Glimmer of hope seen in cracking Mass. gov’s secrecy
- Vt. Senate to act on proposed journalist shield law
- Fed suit challenges Vt.’s secrecy on newly filed cases
- Decisions on public files doubled under new Mass. law
- N.H. town administrator lauds right-to-know law
- Why post-election secrecy of N.H. ballots should end
- Vt. plans could beef up weak gov’t ethics posture
- Recap of Maine public-access efforts in past year
- Conn. legislator advocates for protecting public access
- NEFAC, others argue in court for right to record police
- Survey: 50% say Obama worsened public access
- Journalists, at 7.6%, trail many others in FOIA requests
Industry News
- Owner of Conn. dailies buys Chronicle of Willimantic
- GateHouse relocating its Framingham, Mass., printing
- Profile of nonprofit independent site InDepthNH.org
- Newsonomics on palace intrigue of Courant’s parent
- More turmoil at top of Courant parent; files sought
- BU forum tackles issue of keeping journalists safe
- Foley foundation’s tutorial for correspondents’ safety
- AP style gives qualified OK to ‘they’ as singular pronoun
- Gannett cuts 3 Southern dailies to thrice-weekly pubs
- Thoughts on what skills today’s journalists need
- Journalists on what journalists need today: Basics-plus
- Panel discusses innovation, quality-quantity balance
- Transparency seen as key to counter fake news
- Study: News sharer more trusted than news source
- The problems attendant to fixing ‘fake news’