Facebook Journalism Project: News Day

Facebook Journalism Project: News Day is coming to Boston. Many newsrooms and news organizations around the country are collaborating with Facebook on tools, trainings and...

How Training Can Improve Local News, Make It More Inclusive

Mark Glaser | Knight Foundation | December 11, 2019 If you were to train the perfect local news journalist...

The Tow Center COVID-19 Newsroom Cutback Tracker

Since March, The Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University has been collecting data on U.S. newsroom cutbacks that have occurred...
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Industry News – Mar 2017

Owner of dailies in Conn. buys Willimantic daily GateHouse moving Framingham plant to other print sites Vt. Senate to act on proposed journalist...

3 Connecticut newspapers acquired by Rhode Island Suburban Newspapers

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) — Three Connecticut newspapers have been sold to a Rhode Island-based company. The New Britain Herald, Bristol Press, and the Chronicle...

Applications open for LMA Lab for Journalism Funding

All local media companies are invited to apply to join the fourth cohort of the LMA Lab for Journalism Funding to learn how to...

Obituaries

George Deforest Fowler George Deforest Fowler, 68, formerly of South Hero, Vt., died Dec. 6 at Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown, N.Y. At the...

Recognizing the importance of open government during Sunshine Week March 13-19

As journalists, we rely on open government and freedom of information principles to keep the public informed about its government. Too often, though, we...

Sunshine Communications Announces New Acquisitions

CLAREMONT, NH — Newly formed Sunshine Communications, a division of the Sunshine Initiative Public Benefit Corporation, owned and operated by Jay Lucas announced the...
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Industry News – Jan 2017

Alan White, editor at Eagle-Tribune,is dead at 68 Case shows R.I.’s tortured, limited path to public records Mass. AG refusal to release public...