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Issue: #396
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September 9, 2016
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By the Times Union Editorial Board - A roadblock to holding police and corrections officers accountable may finally be crumbling.
Known as Section 50-a of the state's Civil Rights Law, it exempts from New York's Freedom of Information Law any records of police officers, corrections officers and even firefighters that might be used to evaluate their performance or employment status. The Civil Rights Law has been around since the 1970s, but it wasn't until 1997 when two newspapers, the Times Union and the Daily Gazette, went to court to secure the release of details about an incident in which off-duty cops hurled eggs at members of the public during a rowdy bachelor party.
While a mid-level appeals court backed the newspapers and ruled that the information, including the names of 18 police officers involved, should be released according to FOIL, the city of Schenectady appealed the case to the state's highest court. The newspapers were joined in the case by the New York Civil Liberties Union, but the Court of Appeals sided with the city. The records remained sealed, and since then so have all similar documents that would detail the cases of any public safety officer in the state who has been disciplined. More
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From Gannett - Gannett's Domestic Publishing division has named Nancy Meyer president of the North Jersey Media Group. Additionally, Rick Green, who has been with Gannett for 27 years, has been named vice president/news and editor. Nancy comes to Gannett from the Orlando Sentinel Media Group, where she was the publisher and CEO. Previously, she served as president and publisher of the Hartford Courant, where earlier she had been chief revenue officers of advertising at CT1Media, which included the Hartford Courant and WTIC-TV. "A New Jersey native, Nancy has strong creative and entrepreneurial talents and a track record of building and motivating top-performing teams," said Michael G. Kane, president/East Group, Domestic Publishing. "She's coming home to the state where she grew up and will be a terrific fit for North Jersey Media Group. We are very pleased to welcome her back to Gannett, too, as she first launched her career in advertising at the Star-Gazette in Elmira, N.Y., and at the then-Gannett owned Saratogian in Saratoga Springs, N.Y." More
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Newspaper Association of America changes its name to News Media Alliance, launches new website
From NMA - The Newspaper Association of America today announced it has changed its name to News Media Alliance and launched a new website, www.newsmediaalliance.org. The announcement is the culmination of a larger strategic plan to highlight the news media industry's evolution to multi-platform, digitally-savvy businesses and premium content providers.
The organization's new focus better reflects the fully-integrated multi-platform media organizations that comprise its membership. The new website visually depicts this expansion of news media into digital and mobile formats, with a modern look and feel that incorporates imagery of what it means to be a news media organization today: communicating in real-time across multiple platforms. The site is also mobile-responsive to accommodate the increasing number of readers accessing the site on mobile devices.
News Media Alliance Vice President of Innovation Michael MaLoon says of the changes, "Our transformation efforts are designed to show the positive trajectory of the industry and to share the innovation and growth taking place, especially in the digital space. There are so many great things happening in our industry right now, and our job is to tell those stories." More
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From The New York Times - One day many decades hence, when your grandchildren ask you, "Grandma, what was a newspaper?" you can direct them back to Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. Because it may well go down as the day the American newspaper as we've known it moved out of intensive care and into the palliative wing on its way to the Great Beyond. The Newspaper Association of America, the trade group that has represented the interests of major newspaper publishers in one form or another since 1887, is going to drop from its name the very word that defined it: "Newspaper." The group will be known as the News Media Alliance. There is one obvious reason behind the change: The number of newspapers continues to drop, which has a way of depressing the association's membership. (It has fallen to about 2,000 from roughly 2,700 in 2008, executives there say.) But the bigger issue, the group's chief executive, David Chavern, told me last week, was that the word "newspaper" has become meaningless in reference to many of the group's members, including The Washington Post, The New York Times and Dow Jones. They may have newspapers, but they get large percentages of their readers online. Actually, you can't even refer exclusively to "readers" these days when so many millions are "viewers" of online news video. More
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NYNPA recognizes the 15th anniversary of 9/11
With the 15th anniversary of September 11, 2001 coming this Sunday, the New York News Publishers Association would like to remember the thousands of people who lost their lives on that tragic day, as well as recognize those who serve our country as first responders and in the military.
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New York News Publishers Association
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