Headliners
- Vt. lawmakers consider shield law for journalists
- GateHouse unit buys Boston’s Color Magazine
- R.I.’s Journal, six others drop PolitiFact
- Boston Globe using Facebook for notifications
- Joyner appointed executive editor of Eagle-Tribune group
- Supreme Court to hear Mass. case on open jury selection
- R.I. AG won’t release Schilling grand jury files
- Advocates note shortcomings in Mass. records law
- Free Press editorial raps plan to limit open meetings
- Ex-N.H. editor Pride retiring as head of Pulitzer Prizes
- Boston Globe’s D.C. columnist gets nat’l journalism ethics job
- Herald’s Borges wins nat’l boxing writing awards
- Ex-Conn. editor DeRienzo gets nat’l online ass’n post
- NESNE Journalism Career Fair April 6 in Dedham, Mass.
- Freelance writing workshop April 8 at N.H.’s Loeb School
Obituaries
- Thomas J. Kilbridge Jr.
- Aime A. Lachance Jr.
- Marion Jean Zorro Dowd
- Ed MacKinnon
- Sidney Ziff
- Richard A. Perotto
- John W. Curtin
- Marie Elaine Whelan
- Constance Louise (Parrott) Benedict
- Helen Louise (Comins) Scarborough
- Gladyce Irma (Colodny) Lawrence
- Carol Whiton
- Everett E. Camber
Transitions
MASSACHUSETTS
- David Joyner
Briefs
Awards and Honors
Advertising News
Advice
- Roy Peter Clark’s steps to better newswriting
- How to make money for, with email newsletters
- 42 ideas to consider for your newsletter
- Changing a ‘planning’ culture to a ‘doing’ one
- Suggestions for handling corrections
- How newsroom managers can avoid burnout
- 5 ways to improve blog writing
- 4 dating rules apply to creating community engagement
- Four tips for increasing search engine optimization
- 5 standards citizen journalists should adhere to
- Two examples of providing context for numbers
Financial News
Training
Mobile/Online News
- Ex-Conn. editor DeRienzo gets top nat’l ass’n post
- DeRienzo: How independent news sites like craft beer
- How Verse tool can add to video interactivity
- FCC chairman calls net neutrality ‘a mistake’
- Study shows variable reasons people click on stories
- A free online tool for estimating large crowd sizes
- Free tool from Marshall Project tracks website changes
- Google’s Jigsaw aims to clean up online comments
- Cautions for journalists about desktop, laptop security
- Globe using Facebook Messenger for notifications
- Mobile app Filmic recommended for better news videos
- App available for users to balance their news menu
Social Media News
- How publishers use social platforms, reservations aside
- Publishers still facing $$ dilemma on 3rd-party platforms
- Free social tool CrowdTangle popular in newsrooms
- Facebook’s new ‘disputed‘ tag for fake news disputed
- Facebook video metric change upsets some publishers
- Only 2% opt out of Twitter’s algorithmic timeline
- Study: 15% of Twitter accounts are bots
- Sidewire aims for a more civil, expert-laden Twitter
- Snap plans to favor TV shows over Discover publishers
Legal Briefs
- Mass. open-jury-selection case before Supreme Court
- Vermont lawmakers consider shield law for journalists
- Mass. ethics chief clams up on his potential conflicts
- Speaker at Vt.’s Middlebury college assaulted
- Worcester, Mass., court keeps audio recordings secret
- R.I. AG balks at releasing Schilling grand jury files
- Advocates note shortcomings in Mass. records law
- Free Press raps legislation to limit open meetings
- Initial gov’t requests for exceptions to Mass. records law
- History of Vt. govs’ files shows trend to nondisclosure
- Boston police add 6 months to pilot bodycam program
- NEFAC, others observe Sunshine Week
- Report: Obama bad on FOIA, Trump might be worse
- Website planned to track violations of press freedom
- 80-plus advocates decry Trump attacks on press
- NEFAC joins in backing Mass. anti-SLAPP law in court
- Ban on sex offenders on social media might be KO’d
Industry News
- GateHouse subsidiary buys Boston’s Color Magazine
- Providence Journal, others drop PolitiFact after election
- Globe D.C. columnist gets nat’l journalism ethics job
- MisinfoCon examines fake news, journalism’s failings
- A view of the role of automated news content
- Spirited Media plans U.S. chain of local news startups
- Spirited Media founder on attracting young readers, $$$
- Journalists weigh in on why they stayed in the business
- Study: Young distrust press, even social media
- Roadblocks waylaying national-local news collaborations
- The ‘necessary evil’ of using anonymous sources
- A case for 3rd-party help to boost legacy subscriptions
- TV news analysis: Only 3% of news on Trump is positive
- Will trend arise to move opinion pages away from print?