Headliners
- Award entries due Sept. 30 for NENPA awards competition
 - Registration open for promotions at NENPA fall conference Oct. 6
 - GateHouse again offering buyouts; Globe cuts 19
 - Sept. 20 is deadline
for essays to pick owner of Vt. weekly - Courant parent reports Q2 profit of 1%, ad $ down 9.2%
 - Lawsuit alleges R.I. AG violating public records law
 - Conn. Gov. Malloy urged by Courant to fund watchdogs
 - Advocate decries R.I. secrecy on files in Schilling deal case
 - Judge: Vt. Gas board hearing must be open to public
 - Boston cops refuse to volunteer to wear bodycams
 - Daily receives threat to kill police in Portland, Maine
 - Worcester Sun celebrates its first anniversary
 - NENPA U ad sales seminar is Sept. 20 in Dedham, Mass.
 - Loeb School seeks First Amendment Award nominees
 
Obituaries
- Vincent Michael Bradley, former publisher of Old Colony Memorial of Plymouth, Mass., and four sister newspapers
 - Hugh Alexander Baird, former editor of then-Stratford (Conn.) News
 - William Zachary “Bill” Malinowski, reporter at Providence (R.I.) Journal, Master Reporter award winner and Sevellon Brown New England Journalist of the Year in 2014
 - Laurence Collins
 - Glenn Minford Farber Jr.
 - Kevin Clark Mills
 - John J. Gould
 - Dorothea M. ‘Dot’ (Herty) Ashworth
 - Norman E. Croft Jr.
 - Miriam G. Devine
 
Transitions
CONNECTICUT
MASSACHUSETTS
Briefs
- Deadline Sept. 20 for essays to pick owner of Vt. weekly
 - Daily receives email threat to kill Portland, Maine, police
 - Maine State Library to digitize historical newspapers
 - Oliver features Globe movie, gaffe in journalism bit
 - NAA chief raps Oliver for ‘poking fun’ at publishers
 - Reuters offering mobile-ready captioned news videos
 - ASNE asks states to back independent student press
 - Cable TV’s instant fact-checks so far anti-Trump only
 - Automated fact-checking said to be on brink of reality
 
Awards and Honors
- Globe’s Wallack wins Pulliam 1st Amendment award
 - Loeb School seeks 1st Amendment Award nominees
 - Globe’s Shaughnessy reflective in Hall of Fame speech
 - 4 journalists, late editor to be given Yankee Quill awards
 - Burlington (Vt.) Free Press wins 4 Murrow awards …
 - … and a national Murrow award for a sports video
 - Globe’s Rinaldi in video discussing her winning work
 
Advertising News
Advice
- Guidelines, laws about public, private property access
 - Clark dissects how Jenkins wrote a ‘kick-ass’ column
 - AP’s robot cameras use shows their potential, limits
 - Questions to ask in vetting organizations as credible
 - Seven steps to better video storytelling
 - Eight suggestions for improving video editing
 - Four suggestions for avoiding plagiarism
 - A primer on a reporter’s privilege, shield laws
 - How to manage being a freelancer
 - Poynter ethicist on how to credit a bot-produced story
 
Financial News
Training
Mobile/Online News
- Worcester (Mass.) Sun celebrates its 1st anniversary
 - Boston’s Podcast Garage an incubator for storytelling
 - Ex-Conn. editor discusses state of indie online news
 - Examining Washington Post’s success with videos
 - Doctor discusses how news sites fare with millennials
 - 3 micropayment options to help raise revenue for news
 - Micropayment platform Blendle now has 1 million users
 
Social Media News
- Facebook referrals to publisher sites down double digits 
 - Facebook to police clickbait headlines
 - Facebook adjusts feed for ‘personally informative’ news
 - Facebook shuts new publishers out of audience data
 - Twitter’s institutional tolerance of ‘toxic’ abuse decried
 - Twitter makes its Moments available to all
 - New Instagram Stories proving attractive to publishers
 - How 3 legacy publishers are using Instagram Stories
 - Nonprofit publishes investigative series on Instagram
 - Social media curator-verifier Reported.ly shuttered
 
Legal Briefs
- Lawsuit alleges R.I. AG violating public records law
 - Courant urges Conn. gov not to de-fund watchdogs
 - Conn. budget chief says gov can withhold watchdog $$
 - Advocate decries R.I. secrecy on files in Schilling case
 - Vt.’s ‘revenge porn’ law constitutionality in question
 - Judge: Vt. Gas hearing before board must be open
 - Conn. judge Borden, public access champion, dies
 - Boston judge orders Beck to reveal terror case sources
 - NENPA, other N.E. groups back Beck in sources case
 - Boston cops refuse to volunteer to wear bodycams
 - Student rights advocates speak to N.E. teachers
 
Industry News
- Vt.’s Herald, Times Argus, affiliates sold to Maine chain
 - Pay restored to Vt.’s Herald, Times Argus workers
 - Rutland Herald news editor fired for paycheck story
 - Interview with fired Rutland (Vt.) Herald news editor
 - Community reacts to Vt. newspapers’ financial woes
 - GateHouse again offering buyouts; Globe cuts 19
 - GateHouse buyouts, possible layoffs beyond N.E.
 - Doctor speculates Gannett up for new bid to buy Tronc
 - FCC keeps ban on joint newspaper-TV ownership
 - Distributed content forcing papers into news syndication
 - Buffett down on newspapers: ‘Going to go downhill’
 - A devolution in the role, title of newspaper publisher
 - A plea for objective, skeptical news coverage