Headliners
- 2 Mass. officials up for nat’l gov’t secrecy ‘award’
 - Maine public records panel to review public records flap
 - Judge reverses ruling, keeps Boston subpoenas secret
 - R.I. governor’s veto of ‘revenge porn’ legislation praised
 - N.H. court’s ruling to reveal victim’s sex history decried
 - Judge keeps two Vermont reporters subject to testifying
 - Boston Herald tests robot ‘reporter’
 - Vtdigger.org meets fundraising goal of $150,000
 - Jewish reporter in N.H. subjected to anti-Semitism online
 - Boston-based MuckRock converts to nonprofit status
 - Montville wins AP Sports Editors Red Smith Award
 
Transitions
MASSACHUSETTS:
Briefs
Awards and Honors
- Burlington (Vt.) Free Press wins 4 Murrow awards
 - … and a national Murrow award for a sports video
 - Conn. freedom-of-information honors for Smith, Savino
 - Montville wins AP Sports Editors Red Smith Award
 - 5 N.E. business publications win national recognition
 - Conn. SPJ announces its 2015 award winners
 - 13 Conn. SPJ charter members join Hall of Fame
 - Mass. reporter wins novice journalist award, $1,000
 - Cape Cod daily, its editor top GateHouse awards
 - Eagle-Tribune, sister papers win 9 in-chain awards
 - Newseum honors journalists slain on duty in 2015
 - Alma mater awards Vt.’s Donoghue honorary degree
 
Advertising News
- Ad blocking seen rising by 24%, to 32% of online users
 - Mobile ads up, as is use of ad blockers against them
 - Mobile ad spend projected to surpass desktops’ by ’17
 - Video views booming, but are video ads going bust?
 - Facebook closing in on inserting ads into live videos
 - Poynter adding native advertising to its website
 
Advice
- How FAA’s new rules on drones apply for news
 - Reporting the big story by using small but telling details
 - 6 business lessons that can benefit journalists
 - How to use photos in multimedia presentations
 - The numbers game: Tips on rounding them off
 - Eight tips for revising your copy
 - How Missourian made better use of its analytics
 - Data lab’s lessons on presenting content innovatively
 
Training
Mobile/Online News
- Vtdigger.org meets fundraising goal of $150,000
 - 400 publishers bid to join Medium plan to make them $$
 - Most in U.S. read news online, especially social media
 - What users accomplish online in one second
 - Asking for email addresses as counter to ad blockers
 - An argument for pushing personalized news and ads
 - Brady’s recipe for using local news for digital success
 
Social Media News
- Survey: Are platforms publishers’ lifelines or usurpers?
 - How social media are shaping news consumption
 - Facebook seen eclipsing traditional news outlets
 - Facebook pays media, celebs to build its live-streaming
 - Facebook projects it’ll probably be ‘all video’ in 5 years
 - Twitter seen as overhyped as driver of user traffic
 - How publishing platforms compromise papers’ ethics
 - N.Y. Times seen as among 3 social network ‘favorites’
 - Post-bias controversy, Facebook adds anti-bias training
 
Legal Briefs
- 2 Mass. officials up for national gov’t secrecy ‘award’
 - Maine public records panel to review public records flap
 - Judge reverses ruling, keeps Boston subpoenas secret
 - Mass. town again ordered to release hazing document
 - R.I. governor’s veto of ‘revenge porn’ legislation praised
 - N.H. court’s ruling to reveal victim’s sex history decried
 - Judge keeps 2 Vt, reporters subject to testifying
 - Congress OKs legislation to improve access to records
 - Botched release of Orlando shooter transcript rapped
 - Press group backs federal anti-SLAPP legislation
 - Threats to 1st Amendment seen on college campuses
 - Newseum hosts mock Supreme Court FBI-Apple case
 
Industry News
- 2 Vt. dailies to stop printing three times a week
 - GateHouse’s top news executive steps down
 - Boston-based MuckRock converts to nonprofit status
 - N.E. journalists’ connections to Orlando mass killings
 - Cape Cod Times publisher fields readers’ queries
 - Pew: Print declines worsen, in circulation, ad $$, use
 - Print behind online, TV, social media as news source
 - Politico: Are newspapers facing summer of discontent?
 - Execs outline plans to turn Tribune into Tronc
 - Harvard Business Review: Fallacies of Tronc’s strategy
 - Non-union Tronc employees to receive 2.5% pay raises
 - FCC chair favors retaining most cross-ownership rules
 - Poynter gets $758K for new online journalism education
 - Cannes fest indicates virtual reality is ‘next big thing’
 - Pride: Adding to Pulitizer Prizes ‘probable’