Transitions
Briefs
- Globe’s Boston presses due to make last run in June
- Two Boston law school fellows
working for NEFAC this summer - AP debuts software, training to create local data-driven stories
- Latest AP Stylebook adds ‘fake news,’ gender clarification
- $1M offered for entrepreneurial journalism projects
- N.Y. Times public editor rues loss of role, partisan journalism
- Study: Conservative websites more likely to attack fact-checkers
Awards and Honors
- Latest Connecticut SPJ honors announced
- 2 Maine sister newspapers among NNA award winners
- N.E. Newspaper Awards entries sought by July 13
- Maine reporter wins Mass.-based young journalist award
- Scholarships given honoring late editor of Mass.’s Eagle-Tribune
- Burlington, Vt., student receives journalism scholarship award
Advertising News
Advice
- FOIA project offers helpful resources for public records requests
- How to declutter and clarify news copy
- Poynter’s Innovation columnist’s 99 lessons learned
- Nine suggestions for improving headlines
- Clark: Writers can learn focus from the late Frank Deford
- Nine paths to more satisfying story endings
- Advantages, disadvantages of open-, closed-ended poll questions
- Antidotes for using clichés in your writing
- Five guides to making job descriptions better
- Pros and cons, do’s and don’ts of creating fact-check ratings
Industry News
- Hearst buys New Haven, Conn., daily, 10 sister publications
- Stowe Reporter group buys two more Vt. weeklies
- MetroWest Daily News selling Framingham, Mass., property
- 2 Maine papers differ on GOP hopeful’s use of their logos
- Pew: 2016 newspaper financial results troubling, save for digital ads
- Pew: Audiences grow for podcasts, internet radio
- Google, Facebook dominance in digital ads drives newsroom layoffs
- Columbia Journalism Review: Report newsroom layoffs
- N.Y. Times thins editor ranks to hire more reporters
- Poynter solicits newsroom leaders’ challenges, hopes
- Scribd: A Netflix for news with 500,000 subscribers
- Newspaper-library partnership invites students into journalism
- Study indicates fact-checking sites are imperfectly consistent
Mobile/Online News
- With digital subscriptions up, Globe still adjusting paywall
- Harvard-spawned site aims to negate political bias
- Opt In: Free help to create better email newsletters
- Free tool Open States replete with data on legislators
- Photography Mapped: Tool serves as primer for using DSLRs
- How Apple’s latest changes might affect publishers
- Free tool predicts success probability for FOIA request
- Sutori: Free tool makes creating timelines easier
Social Media News
- Facebook might help publishers sell subscriptions
- Facebook adds ads to Instant Articles to please publishers
- Inaccuracies, echo chamber effect diminish Twitter as news medium
- Facebook’s spread, reinforcement of partisan information derided
- FTC warns violators on Instagram to disclose paid commercial posts
- Emotion-laden stories seen helping Facebook engagement
- Artificial intelligence to aid Facebook’s blocking extremist posts
- CrowdTangle to count Facebook, Instagram video views
Legal Briefs
- Vt. education agency forced to release bullying records
- R.I. governor stonewalls solon’s request for files on hires
- Conn. insurance chief up for maximum fine for records violation
- Hearing debates access to Vermont government employees’ personal email for public files
- Vt. advocates join appeal of pro-secret government email ruling
- Mass. town uses private outsource excuse to hide public file
- Limits mulled on use of Maine gov’t meeting audiotapes
- Maine prisons department stonewalls on public information
- Conn. judge OKs release of student accidental death videotape
- Maine judge OKs use of broadcast outtakes in murder case
- Maine news outlet won’t appeal ruling on broadcast outtakes
- Conn. on verge of laws to allow anti-SLAPP suits and to fend off foreign libel suits
- Vt. tenant’s 1st Amendment suit allowed to proceed
- Four N.H. pro-sex crime victim measures to become law
- Maine parents sue to allow autistic son to record school proceedings
- R.I. governor to appeal denial of Schilling probe files
- R.I. state police release files in Schilling probe case
- R.I. Senate panel calls for release of Schilling case files
- Op-ed: Kill move to restrict Conn.’s neutral state government TV coverage
- New rules delayed on Vt. prisoners’ access to their files
- N.H. college students seek less restrictive access
- Mass. court ruling appears to soften anti-SLAPP law
- New Vt. law to protect student journalists applauded
- 6-month FOIA project finds feds violate law 43% of time
- Trump Justice Dept. keeps secret letters of ousted lawyers
- Report: Obama illegally used agency to spy on political foes
- Feds sued for files on suspension of ‘sanctuary city’ reports
- Hillary email confirms she ignored email security warning
- New Clinton emails show more classified into she shared
- ‘Progressives,’ minority students seen at war with free speech
- Alleged government secrets leaker a Trump hater