Headliners
- Owner cancels contest to sell Vt.’s Hardwick Gazette
 - Vt.’s Free Press parent to cut jobs by 2% firm-wide
 - VtDigger sues state over withheld public records
 - Conn. town keeps secret the tape of a coach incident
 - Mass. state police cook up high fee for evidence audits
 - Maine Gov. LePage limits access to gov’t contract info
 - Mass. police agency keeps cost of hiding cop brutality secret
 - 3 N.E. news outfits finalists for online EPPY Awards
 - Pembroke, Mass., school board hit for free-speech limits
 - 2 N.H. men charged in Mass. paper’s newsrack bombing
 - Summary of 6th annual N.E. 1st Amendment Institute
 - NENPA U. session on opioids set for Nov. 17 in Mass.
 - N.E. Newspaper Hall of Fame nominations open
 
Obituaries
- Florence R. Niles
 - Robert Walter ‘Bob’ Donahue
 - Thomas J. Buckley
 - James J. ‘J.J.’ Smith
 - Ann Pasqualini-Maglaris
 - Barbara (Goldberg) Bernstein
 - Cynthia ‘Cindy’ Desseau
 - Nancy Wimmer
 - James P. Kilroy
 - Michael P. Pelkey
 - Charles Edward Lynch
 - Rev. Dr. Eric W. Bascom Jr.
 - Philomena Maria Anderson
 - Paul M. Anish
 - Lawrence G. Dean
 - Rita J. (Richard) Leduc
 - Stephen Robert Moss
 
Transitions
Briefs
Awards and Honors
Advertising News
- GateHouse partners with Genesis on video advertising
 - Edmonds: Print ad revenues accelerating
 - 70 million in U.S. now use ad blockers
 - Snapchat Discover proposes flat fee vs. ad $$ sharing
 - Facebook adds options for monetizing Instant Articles
 - Publishers happy with Apple News traffic, not its ad $$$
 - How to monetize live streaming is puzzling publishers
 
Advice
Mobile/Online News
- Mobile is pushing desktop publishing down print’s path
 - Publishers pleased with mobile traffic from Google AMP
 - Doctor examines phone companies’ ‘owning’ internet
 - Study: Print reaches more readers than declining digital
 - Google News now flags fact-check posts
 - News partnership created to vet breaking news online
 - The geography, demography of video sharing
 - Push notifications on browsers more in vogue
 
Social Media News
- Facebook adds free training website for journalists
 - Facebook News Feed video now can be shown on TVs
 - Snapchat moves to become camera, TV video firm
 - Snapchat ahead of Twitter in active users. Is this why?
 - Facebook Instant Articles adds photos, videos
 - Facebook to ease graphic content rules for news items
 - Study: Almost 1/4 of news pieces embed social media
 
Legal Briefs
- VtDigger sues over withheld Vt. gov’t public records
 - Darien, Conn., keeps tape of coach incident secret
 - Enterprise wins appeal for Brockton to disclose files
 - Vt. suit seeks files of gov’t-subsidized private nonprofit
 - Mass. state police cook up high fee for evidence audits
 - Maine Gov. LePage limits access to gov’t contract info
 - Mass. police agency keeps cost of hiding brutality secret
 - Anti-GE group halts Boston gov’t meeting for violation
 - Mass. court advances defamation suit vs. ex-gov Patrick
 - Vt. ACLU raps delay in release of cop shooting video
 - Only 86 of 365 Maine candidates sign open gov’t pledge
 - Pembroke, Mass., school board hit for free-speech limits
 - NEFAC, others protest Obama’s lack of openness
 - Colleges’ commitment to free speech is in question
 - Bodycam disclosure laws vary state to state
 - Geofeedia’s aiding cops in monitoring protests criticized
 
Industry News
- DigBoston publisher stepping down, selling paper
 - Owner cancels contest to sell Hardwick (Vt.) Gazette
 - Summary of 6th annual N.E. 1st Amendment Institute
 - Study: ‘News deserts’ loom under newspaper chains
 - Vt.’s Free Press parent to cut jobs by 2% firm-wide
 - Doctor: $1B Gannett purchase of Tronc, layoffs loom
 - 3 alternatives posited as print continues to decline
 - Knight Foundation head weighs ‘confused’ state of news
 - Shafer: Newspapers erred in pursuing digital vs. print
 - A history of data journalism, and its importance today
 - Press group calls out Trump as threat to free press
 - Examining journalists’ Hillary-heavy campaign donations
 - Explosive growth seen for virtual and augmented reality
 - Conference offers community engagement paths to $$$