Bulletin
09/19/2018
Newspaper adds a sunset to searching police public records
The Southeast Missourian announced a policy to block search engines from court and police public records and subsequent articles after six years.
09/19/2018
Google's new dataset search is a game-changer, plus 10 tools for investigative journalism
Samantha Sunne, my fellow digital tools newsletter writer, just put together a fantastic list of 10 investigative tools for the Global Investigative Journalism Network.
09/14/2018
'We’re Your Neighbors:' ONMA offers special Newspaper Week ads you can customize
This year National Newspaper Week (NNW) will be celebrated from October 7 to 13. The theme for NNW is "Journalism matters now more than ever," a response to recent attacks on the media industry.
09/14/2018
Would Ohio editors publish an anonymous op-ed column?
The New York Times took the extraordinary step last week of publishing an anonymous op-ed column by a “senior official” in the Trump administration that described White House chaos and a group of officials who believe they must undermine the president’s worst tendencies for the good of the country.
09/14/2018
Google offering free ‘G Suite licenses’ to small news organizations
The shift to digital has had a transformational effect on the news industry. To help news publishers manage that transition, earlier this year we announced the Google News Initiative, focused on elevating quality journalism, enabling new business models, and empowering news organizations to innovate through technology.
09/14/2018
Into the Issues by Al Cross
Most of us who have worked in rural newsrooms probably gave little thought to safety until the recent mass shooting at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, where a man upset with the newspaper’s coverage of his court case walked into the newsroom and shot five people to death.
09/14/2018
Reminder about statement of ownership filing for October deadline
The publisher of each publication sent Periodicals Class Mail, including foreign publications accepted at Periodicals rates, must file Form 3526 by Oct. 1 of each year at the original entry post office. If Oct. 1 falls on a Saturday, the post office would expect to receive it by close of business on Sept. 30.
09/14/2018
Chris Quinn: We're expanding Cleveland.com's right-to-be-forgotten experiment
We launched our right-to-be-forgotten experiment two months ago and began fielding requests from people to remove their identities from cleveland.com stories about minor crimes they committed.
09/13/2018
ASNE panelists suggest taking newsroom security more seriously
If the leaders of the Capital Gazette could go back in time — before the shooting that took five newspaper employees’ lives — what would they do differently?
09/13/2018
What Americans say it will take to rebuild trust in media
Figuring out just how to rebuild Americans’ trust in media is proving to be a tricky question.
