Headliners
- Police in Mass. misuse exemptions to hide public files
- Reversal sought of Vt. ruling allowing secret gov’t emails
- GateHouse settles with subscribers over forced payments
- Maine group redesigns all of its publications
- Herald reporter suspended for unvetted tweet
- Advocates wary of Conn. proposal to control neutral TV
- Mass. Gov. Baker’s claim to secrecy of records challenged
- N.H. moves to affirm police may release accident reports
- GateHouse doing voice reports. Will others follow?
- New Monitor Daily ‘all in’ on digital subscriptions
- Boston Globe manager among 24 new Nieman Fellows
- NEFAC seeks donations in annual fundraiser
Obituaries
- James Breagy
- Oscar A. ‘Pete’ Levesque
- Shirley Luella Merrifield (Sanville) Scamman
- Davis Taylor, scion of family that owned Boston Globe, once employed in advertising there
- Lynn C. Elder
- Charles H. Harper, columnist, reporter for Westborough (Mass.) News
- Peter J. Bartek, wrote for The Anchor, newspaper of Roman Catholic Diocese of Fall River, Mass.
- Virginia Wells Andersen, correspondent for former Hartford (Conn.) Times
- Virginia R. (Barrington) Woodmansee, columnist for Westerly (R.I.) Sun
- Vincent J. Bartimo
- Errol J. Pomerance
- David E. Dutch, wrote for Sanford (Maine) News
- Earle Hutchinson
- Edward T. Gilbert Jr.
- J. Paul Barry, employed with then-Springfield (Mass.) Newspapers
- Kathyrn Louise (Gladding) Breer, delivered Burlington (Vt.) Free Press
- Jacqueline M. Bryk
Briefs
- Herald reporter suspended for unvetted source tweet
- Herald publisher backs policy that led to suspension
- Globe’s among 5 email newsletter signups suggested
- NEFAC seeks donations in annual fundraiser
- Massive’ Google Docs phishing scam hits journalists
- Survey ranks reporter, broadcaster as worst careers
Awards and Honors
Advertising News
Advice
Industry News
- GateHouse settles with subscribers over payments
- Boston’s Monitor Daily ‘all in’ on digital subscriptions
- Gannett’s promise, peril, now and in future, examined
- Next for now-profitable Patch: Platform for others’ news
- Importance of, and strategies for, marketing events
- How local-nat’l partnership outfit views collaborations
- Facebook debuts training for legacy, online newsrooms
- Among all sources, 50%+ of Americans pay for news
- Shafer: Content of hacked emails should be reported
- Forum outlines key industry issues, including fake news
Mobile/Online News
- Apple app Clips puts captions on videos
- GateHouse producing voice reports. Will others follow?
- Harvard-spawned site aims to negate political bias
- New neutral news site using list from Mass. college
- Are publishers losing in digital giants’ content quest?
- Free tool Scribe transcribes audio to text
- Expert: More people still prefer text vs. video news
- Google aims to filter out fake news, problem content
Social Media News
Legal Briefs
- Police in Mass. misuse exemptions to hide records
- Reversal sought of Vt. ruling allowing secret gov’t emails
- Conn. solons cutting scope of neutral TV coverage
- Advocates wary of Conn. solons’ plan to control TV
- Podcast on Conn. move to limit gov’t TV coverage
- Conn.’s Courant raps censoring of neutral TV coverage
- Pressed by ruling, Vt. makes suits public immeidately
- Mass. Gov. Baker’s claim to records secrecy challenged
- Advocates oppose deleting recordings of Maine board
- N.H. legislature tightens rape shield law
- N.H. moves to affirm cops may release accident reports
- Vt. legislature OKs law protecting student press
- Mass. sheriff will open files on illegal alien enforcement
- Conn.’s Advocate urges allowing cameras in courts
- Hearing held on release of Schilling case grand jury files
- USA Today decries college censorship of free speech
- Newseum: Students misunderstand First Amendment
- Irony: Berkeley now ’most intolerant’ place in U.S.
- States mull legislation to save free speech at colleges
- Records sought on Clinton meeting with AG Lynch
- Court-spilled Hillary emails show classified exchanges
- Revealed files show Hillary emails sought by grand jury
- Trump ‘looking into’ lower bar for successful libel suits
- Forum mulls how 1st Amendment affected by digital age