Headliners
- New owners of Vt. papers mull their 4-day schedule
- Vt.’s Free Press parent may soon buy Courant parent
- Mass. court rules obscene, insulting letter to pol is legal
- Conn. state police balk at releasing cop’s arrest report
- N.H. judge lets cops keep suicide victim’s name secret
- Gloucester, Mass., daily seeks files on fired police chief
- Federal court overturns N.H.’s ban on ‘ballot selfies’
- R.I. ACLU opposes Providence cops’ bodycam discretion
- N.H.’s Loeb 1st Amendment Award two winners named
- AP: Files show Maine govenor’s crime claim bogus
- Northeastern’s student paper is $30,000 in debt
- N.E. Newspaper Hall of Fame nominations open
Transitions
MASSACHUSETTS
Briefs
- AP: Files show Maine Gov. LePage’s crime claim bogus
- Washington Post says Maine’s LePage should resign
- New FAA drone rules expand use for news coverage
- ASNE shifts dues basis to unique views from circulation
- Digital age’s influence on editorial cartooning
- Liberals, conservatives difffer on how press performs
Awards and Honors
Advertising News
Advice
- Multiple ways to find, create feeds for news leads
- Help for journalists in using math in news reports
- 10 new tools for website designers, bloggers
- What some newspapers are trying to woo millennials
- 3 suggestions for improving news videos
- Tips for journalists to develop their online brand
- Five fact-checking questions to ask
- Tips for mitigating legal risks in reporting
- How print and search-focused online headlines differ
- For better bosses, social media personas, openness
Mobile/Online News
- PocketVideo: Free smartphone video tool for journalists
- Open-source tool Klaxon serves as news tipline
- Publishers more intent on customizing news for readers
- Efforts afoot to vet eyewitness videos
- Google’s aim: More products, an info encyclopedia
- In face of Facebook changes, search being revisited
- One formula for maintaining civil online comments
- ProPublica earns $200K selling datasets to others
Social Media News
- Formula for social media success: First, find a niche
- Snapchat downgrades display of publishers’ news
- Potential Twitter buyers back off; investors skittish
- Report: Salesforce still interested in buying Twitter
- Some publishers using Facebook Instant Articles less
- Finding common ground rather than fault with Facebook
- Facebook Live videos outdraw others for comments
- Facebook algorithm changes surfacing some fake news
- Instagram algorithm downplays timeliness for news
Legal Briefs
- N.H. court keeps rape-murder victim sex history private
- Mass. court rules obscene, insulting letter to pol is legal
- Conn. state police balk at releasing cop’s arrest report
- N.H. judge lets cops keep suicide victim’s name secret.
- Federal court overturns N.H.’s ban on ‘ballot selfies’
- Gloucester, Mass., daily seeks files on fired police chief
- ClearGov site seeks context for Mass. local gov’t $$$
- Mass. Gov. Baker urged to make his office’s files public
- R.I. ACLU opposes cops’ bodycam discretion
- Mass. commission to study broadening public access
- Mass. public records overseer has no email account
- 85 Maine legislative hopefuls vow to back public access
- Reporters Committee debuts FOIA Wiki resource
- Challenges to using FOIA, at age 50 in the digital age
- Legal question on N.Y. Times’ reporting Trump’s taxes
- Official: Trump taxes not disclosed illegally by Conn.
- How campus ‘political correctness’ stifles free speech
Industry News
- New owners of Vt. dailies mull their 4-day schedule
- Report: Vt.’s Free Press parent to buy Courant parent
- Reflecting on value of papers as one closes in N.H.
- Digital age lauded, ‘lack of journalism’ lamented
- Northeastern’s independent student paper $30K in debt
- As newspaper jobs decline, digital news jobs stagnate
- Papers grapple with growing bids to kill online reports
- Shafer argues for value of objective, balanced reporting
- New venture aims for news outfits’ collaboration
- Pros, cons of papers’ endorsing political candidates
- Survey: Watching vs. reading news increases with age
- Leaked emails show Hillary manipulating press friends
- Author argues economic value of watchdog reporting
- Coding skills grow in importance for data mining
- J-school test: Developing digitally-savvy ‘sense-makers’