Headliners
- GateHouse parent adds 6 Midwest newspapers to chain
- New deal deemed possible for merger of Gannett, Tronc
- Successes by Maine daily, others in boosting auto ads
- Mass. transit agency keeps scret its absentee records
- Texas judge KOs extended OT pay Obama initiated
- UMass student, others create fix for fake Facebook news
- KKK newspapers found in 2 Mass. neighborhoods
- Hirings, promotions, job changes at Vt.’s Seven Days
- Mass. college prof compiles list of questionable sites
- MNPA to honor two Mass. legislators for open gov’t advocacy
- Deadline is Jan. 15 for NEFAC citizenship award
- NEFAC celebrates 10 years of advocacy, seeks $$
- N.H.’s Loeb School hosts book talk on JFK, UPI’s Smith
- Maine’s 2 senators among solons urging postal reform
- Nominees due Jan. 17 for FOI award
- N.E. Newspaper Hall of Fame nominations open
Obituaries
- Joanna Grace (Leighton) Fisher
- Kathryn ‘Kay’ Frazer Brooks
- Margaret F. ‘Meg’ (Perham) Johnson
- Edward G. Robinson
- Marilyn Mason DeWees
- Gwen Ifill
- Pamela Bullard
- Joseph L. Sheehan
- Frank Wesby Gibson, Jr.
- Mary Fay Mahoney
- Richard Therrien
- James ‘Jim’ Grogan
- Mary Reid ‘May’ Anderson
- Shelley D. Valentine
Transitions
MASSACHUSETTS
Briefs
- KKK papers found in 2 Milford, Mass., neighborhoods
- NEFAC celebrates 10 years of advocacy, seeks $$
- N.H.’s Loeb School hosts JFK/Merriman Smith book talk
- Poynter debuts member program for training, Slack talk
- Hillary newspaper endorsements prove ‘meaningless’
- Whites, college-educated more likely to be interviewed
Awards and Honors
- MNPA honors 2 Mass. solons for open gov’t advocacy
- Deadline is Jan. 15 for NEFAC citizenship award
- Maine Press Association key awards announced
- 3 in N.H. to be honored as 1st Amendment advocates
- Washington Post’s Sullivan wins 1st Amendment award
- Applications due Jan. 17 for Donoghue FOI Award
- 3 N.E. news outfits finalists for online EPPY Awards
- Boston Globe only N.E. winner of Eppy Award
Advertising News
Advice
Training
Mobile/Online News
- Report: Election fatigue dropped mobile news app use
- Mass. prof compiles list of questionable ‘news’ sites
- 8 email newsletter business models with potential
- Email newsletters becoming popular, but lack metrics
- Live-streaming coverage: ‘Word of mouth on steroids’
- Subscription service Scroll to deliver ‘fast, clean’ news
- Newsstand’s latest changes include extending to web
Social Media News
- Nieman’s Benton: Facebook is ‘sewer of misinformation’
- UMass student helps create fix for fake Facebook news
- Fact-checkers offer to help Facebook stem fake news
- Twitter adds function to ban trolls
- Claims about Facebook’s authenticity questioned
- Zuckerberg discusses Facebook’s fake news
- Interest shown in buying Twitter’s shuttered Vine
- Publisher use of Facebook Live up; Periscope declines
Legal Briefs
- Mass. transit agency keeps absentee records secret
- Reformed Mass. access law deemed still deficient
- Brookline urged to close open meeting law loophole
- N.H.’s top court affirms anew state’s rape shield law
- N.H. daily: Liberal media ‘rediscovering’ 1st Amendment
- Obama-backed extension of OT pay blocked by judge
- Assange: WikiLeaks in sync with 1st Amendment
- Trump could change libel law, but only with difficulty
Industry News
- Hirings, promotions, job changes at Vt.’s Seven Days
- GateHouse parent adds 6 Midwest newspapers to chain
- Poor Q3 print ad reports, election’s end bode job cuts
- New deal deemed possible for Gannett-Tronc merger
- Newspaper ass’n sues FCC to allow cross-ownership
- Subscriptions up for ProPublica, others after Trump win
- Press’ ideological sameness blamed for missing ‘upset’
- More listening, less disdain urged for newsrooms
- ‘Groupthink’ deemed press’ biggest blind spot
- 10 journalists discuss how press missed Trump’s win
- Election bared new-media misinformation, distrust of old
- Case made: Election shows newsrooms lack diversity
- Nieman’s Benton discusses failures of press, Facebook
- Ingram: Echo-chamber news aided, missed Trump win
- Suggestions for press to recover what it lost in election
- Press groups ask Trump to uphold open gov’t traditions
- Why data journalism has future despite polling flops
- Five publishers’ forays into virtual reality
- N.Y. Times: What Trump might augur for press