Headliners
- Award entries due Sept. 30 for NENPA awards competition
- Registration open for promotions at NENPA fall conference Oct. 6
- GateHouse again offering buyouts; Globe cuts 19
- Sept. 20 is deadline
for essays to pick owner of Vt. weekly - Courant parent reports Q2 profit of 1%, ad $ down 9.2%
- Lawsuit alleges R.I. AG violating public records law
- Conn. Gov. Malloy urged by Courant to fund watchdogs
- Advocate decries R.I. secrecy on files in Schilling deal case
- Judge: Vt. Gas board hearing must be open to public
- Boston cops refuse to volunteer to wear bodycams
- Daily receives threat to kill police in Portland, Maine
- Worcester Sun celebrates its first anniversary
- NENPA U ad sales seminar is Sept. 20 in Dedham, Mass.
- Loeb School seeks First Amendment Award nominees
Obituaries
- Vincent Michael Bradley, former publisher of Old Colony Memorial of Plymouth, Mass., and four sister newspapers
- Hugh Alexander Baird, former editor of then-Stratford (Conn.) News
- William Zachary “Bill” Malinowski, reporter at Providence (R.I.) Journal, Master Reporter award winner and Sevellon Brown New England Journalist of the Year in 2014
- Laurence Collins
- Glenn Minford Farber Jr.
- Kevin Clark Mills
- John J. Gould
- Dorothea M. ‘Dot’ (Herty) Ashworth
- Norman E. Croft Jr.
- Miriam G. Devine
Transitions
CONNECTICUT
MASSACHUSETTS
Briefs
- Deadline Sept. 20 for essays to pick owner of Vt. weekly
- Daily receives email threat to kill Portland, Maine, police
- Maine State Library to digitize historical newspapers
- Oliver features Globe movie, gaffe in journalism bit
- NAA chief raps Oliver for ‘poking fun’ at publishers
- Reuters offering mobile-ready captioned news videos
- ASNE asks states to back independent student press
- Cable TV’s instant fact-checks so far anti-Trump only
- Automated fact-checking said to be on brink of reality
Awards and Honors
- Globe’s Wallack wins Pulliam 1st Amendment award
- Loeb School seeks 1st Amendment Award nominees
- Globe’s Shaughnessy reflective in Hall of Fame speech
- 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
Advertising News
Advice
- Guidelines, laws about public, private property access
- Clark dissects how Jenkins wrote a ‘kick-ass’ column
- AP’s robot cameras use shows their potential, limits
- Questions to ask in vetting organizations as credible
- Seven steps to better video storytelling
- Eight suggestions for improving video editing
- Four suggestions for avoiding plagiarism
- A primer on a reporter’s privilege, shield laws
- How to manage being a freelancer
- Poynter ethicist on how to credit a bot-produced story
Financial News
Training
Mobile/Online News
- Worcester (Mass.) Sun celebrates its 1st anniversary
- Boston’s Podcast Garage an incubator for storytelling
- Ex-Conn. editor discusses state of indie online news
- Examining Washington Post’s success with videos
- Doctor discusses how news sites fare with millennials
- 3 micropayment options to help raise revenue for news
- Micropayment platform Blendle now has 1 million users
Social Media News
- Facebook referrals to publisher sites down double digits
- Facebook to police clickbait headlines
- Facebook adjusts feed for ‘personally informative’ news
- Facebook shuts new publishers out of audience data
- Twitter’s institutional tolerance of ‘toxic’ abuse decried
- Twitter makes its Moments available to all
- New Instagram Stories proving attractive to publishers
- How 3 legacy publishers are using Instagram Stories
- Nonprofit publishes investigative series on Instagram
- Social media curator-verifier Reported.ly shuttered
Legal Briefs
- Lawsuit alleges R.I. AG violating public records law
- Courant urges Conn. gov not to de-fund watchdogs
- Conn. budget chief says gov can withhold watchdog $$
- Advocate decries R.I. secrecy on files in Schilling case
- Vt.’s ‘revenge porn’ law constitutionality in question
- Judge: Vt. Gas hearing before board must be open
- Conn. judge Borden, public access champion, dies
- Boston judge orders Beck to reveal terror case sources
- NENPA, other N.E. groups back Beck in sources case
- Boston cops refuse to volunteer to wear bodycams
- Student rights advocates speak to N.E. teachers
Industry News
- Vt.’s Herald, Times Argus, affiliates sold to Maine chain
- Pay restored to Vt.’s Herald, Times Argus workers
- Rutland Herald news editor fired for paycheck story
- Interview with fired Rutland (Vt.) Herald news editor
- Community reacts to Vt. newspapers’ financial woes
- GateHouse again offering buyouts; Globe cuts 19
- GateHouse buyouts, possible layoffs beyond N.E.
- Doctor speculates Gannett up for new bid to buy Tronc
- FCC keeps ban on joint newspaper-TV ownership
- Distributed content forcing papers into news syndication
- Buffett down on newspapers: ‘Going to go downhill’
- A devolution in the role, title of newspaper publisher
- A plea for objective, skeptical news coverage