Headliners
- 2 Mass. officials up for nat’l gov’t secrecy ‘award’
- Maine public records panel to review public records flap
- Judge reverses ruling, keeps Boston subpoenas secret
- R.I. governor’s veto of ‘revenge porn’ legislation praised
- N.H. court’s ruling to reveal victim’s sex history decried
- Judge keeps two Vermont reporters subject to testifying
- Boston Herald tests robot ‘reporter’
- Vtdigger.org meets fundraising goal of $150,000
- Jewish reporter in N.H. subjected to anti-Semitism online
- Boston-based MuckRock converts to nonprofit status
- Montville wins AP Sports Editors Red Smith Award
Transitions
MASSACHUSETTS:
Briefs
Awards and Honors
- Burlington (Vt.) Free Press wins 4 Murrow awards
- … and a national Murrow award for a sports video
- Conn. freedom-of-information honors for Smith, Savino
- Montville wins AP Sports Editors Red Smith Award
- 5 N.E. business publications win national recognition
- Conn. SPJ announces its 2015 award winners
- 13 Conn. SPJ charter members join Hall of Fame
- Mass. reporter wins novice journalist award, $1,000
- Cape Cod daily, its editor top GateHouse awards
- Eagle-Tribune, sister papers win 9 in-chain awards
- Newseum honors journalists slain on duty in 2015
- Alma mater awards Vt.’s Donoghue honorary degree
Advertising News
- Ad blocking seen rising by 24%, to 32% of online users
- Mobile ads up, as is use of ad blockers against them
- Mobile ad spend projected to surpass desktops’ by ’17
- Video views booming, but are video ads going bust?
- Facebook closing in on inserting ads into live videos
- Poynter adding native advertising to its website
Advice
- How FAA’s new rules on drones apply for news
- Reporting the big story by using small but telling details
- 6 business lessons that can benefit journalists
- How to use photos in multimedia presentations
- The numbers game: Tips on rounding them off
- Eight tips for revising your copy
- How Missourian made better use of its analytics
- Data lab’s lessons on presenting content innovatively
Training
Mobile/Online News
- Vtdigger.org meets fundraising goal of $150,000
- 400 publishers bid to join Medium plan to make them $$
- Most in U.S. read news online, especially social media
- What users accomplish online in one second
- Asking for email addresses as counter to ad blockers
- An argument for pushing personalized news and ads
- Brady’s recipe for using local news for digital success
Social Media News
- Survey: Are platforms publishers’ lifelines or usurpers?
- How social media are shaping news consumption
- Facebook seen eclipsing traditional news outlets
- Facebook pays media, celebs to build its live-streaming
- Facebook projects it’ll probably be ‘all video’ in 5 years
- Twitter seen as overhyped as driver of user traffic
- How publishing platforms compromise papers’ ethics
- N.Y. Times seen as among 3 social network ‘favorites’
- Post-bias controversy, Facebook adds anti-bias training
Legal Briefs
- 2 Mass. officials up for national gov’t secrecy ‘award’
- Maine public records panel to review public records flap
- Judge reverses ruling, keeps Boston subpoenas secret
- Mass. town again ordered to release hazing document
- R.I. governor’s veto of ‘revenge porn’ legislation praised
- N.H. court’s ruling to reveal victim’s sex history decried
- Judge keeps 2 Vt, reporters subject to testifying
- Congress OKs legislation to improve access to records
- Botched release of Orlando shooter transcript rapped
- Press group backs federal anti-SLAPP legislation
- Threats to 1st Amendment seen on college campuses
- Newseum hosts mock Supreme Court FBI-Apple case
Industry News
- 2 Vt. dailies to stop printing three times a week
- GateHouse’s top news executive steps down
- Boston-based MuckRock converts to nonprofit status
- N.E. journalists’ connections to Orlando mass killings
- Cape Cod Times publisher fields readers’ queries
- Pew: Print declines worsen, in circulation, ad $$, use
- Print behind online, TV, social media as news source
- Politico: Are newspapers facing summer of discontent?
- Execs outline plans to turn Tribune into Tronc
- Harvard Business Review: Fallacies of Tronc’s strategy
- Non-union Tronc employees to receive 2.5% pay raises
- FCC chair favors retaining most cross-ownership rules
- Poynter gets $758K for new online journalism education
- Cannes fest indicates virtual reality is ‘next big thing’
- Pride: Adding to Pulitizer Prizes ‘probable’