Headliners
- GateHouse parent’s Q2 profit margin 3%, revenue down 3%
- Gannett’s Q2 profit margin is 1.2%, down from year ago
- Distributor sues Boston Globe for breach of contract
- Maine agency wants to hide sites of disease outbreak
- Globe’s Wallack wins Pulliam First Amendment award
- Advocates rally at Globe against its mental illness series
- Cape Cod Times editor discusses flap over police cartoon
- Advocates urge R.I. to release files on Curt Schilling deal
- Conn. gov’s aide accused of breaking public records law
- Ex-N.H. sports editor sentenced in child-porn case
- Ex-Times editor Keller to keynote at NEFAC’s institute
- Loeb School seeks 1st Amendment Award nominees
Briefs
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
- Conn. freedom-of-information honors for Smith, Savino
- Montville wins AP Sports Editors Red Smith Award
- 5 N.E. business publications win national recognition
Advertising News
Advice
- Breaking-news coverage can improve newsroom habits
- Six suggestions for improving portrait photos
- Shared lessons on developing Messenger news bots
- Free guide to reporting stories on race and hunger
- Homing in on the ‘who’ in news stories
- 55 ???s for framing what answers to seek via metrics
- Questions to pose to scientists about their research
- Pros and cons of using surveys to gauge your audience
- Cautions about what polls don’t tell you
Financial News
Circulation News
Mobile/Online News
Social Media News
- Facebook’s 10-year plan: Internet connections for all
- Downsides for publishers in social media hosting news
- Dark view of how Facebook treats news publishers
- Are faster load times on Google, Facebook worth it?
- Twitter’s net loss narrows; revenue, user growth slows
- recode: Twitter ads’ high cost is its revenue problem
- Facebook testing new bias-free Trending topics model
- Facebook Messenger hits 1 billion users a month
- Some shift videos from YouTube to Facebook, Snapchat
- Convention coverage shows expanding social media role
- Social networks luring YouTube stars with ad revenue
- Instagram launches feature that apes Snapchat
- LinkedIn adding user-created videos
Legal Briefs
- Maine agency wants to hide disease outbreak sites
- Portland daily raps Maine agency’s secrecy move
- Maine health groups oppose state agency’s secrecy
- NEFAC weighs in against Maine agency’s secrecy plan
- Advocates urge R.I. to release Curt Schilling deal files
- R.I. town breaks law by requiring IDs for public files
- Maine right-to-know panel ducks public records dispute
- Conn. gov aide accused of public records law violations
- Portland daily: Gov. LePage is public-access offender
- Mass. AG dodges Congress subpoena for climate files
- Mass. law would keep Uber, Lyft records from public
- Mass., N.Y. lawsuits test Facebook liability for speech
- Obama’s Justice Dept. purposely limits FOIA searches
- FOIA council tackles ‘release to all’ policy for public files
- Reporters Committee surveys scribes on ‘release to all’
- Obama’s VA wins IRE’s Golden Padlock Award
- White House paints Hillary, Trump as anti-free press
- ProPublica lists its most vexing FOIA delays, denials