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State House News Service

The State House News Service is an independent, privately owned news wire service that has been providing in-depth coverage of Massachusetts state government since 1894. It provides a continuous daily feed of news stories about state-government issues and events, supplemented by photos, audio and video. It is also the only news outlet with floor privileges in the Massachusetts House and Senate chambers, where SHNS reporters cover every session from desks near the rostrums.

Company type

Private

News agency

1894 (1894) in Boston, Massachusetts

Charles E. Mann

Massachusetts State House

Craig R. Sandler (Manager), Michael P. Norton (Editor)

http://statehousenews.com

The SHNS is a subscription-only, paywalled service with limited advertising. Clients include media outlets, government agencies, lobbyists and lobbying firms, political campaigns, advocacy organizations and non-profits, and corporations.[1] The Service produces news stories, daily schedules of state house events, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House and Senate, and weekly summaries of the week's top stories and of the events and issues likely to be making news in the weeks ahead. Its office is in Room 458 of the Massachusetts State House.

Howard W. Kendall, 1914-1918

Grover C. Hoyt, 1919-1920

Daniel J. O'Connor, 1921-1942

Paul C. Ryan, 1942-1979

Helen Woodman, 1979-1996

Craig Sandler, 1996-1998

Michael P. Norton, 1998–Present

: The author of 33 novels from 1925 through 1953, notably The Last Time I Saw Paris, Paul worked for the News Service during its days as Copeland News Service from 1914 to 1921, interrupted by his service in World War I in 1917–1918.[22][23]

Elliot Paul

James T. Harris: Tapped by Gov. to serve on a special commission in 1916 to travel to the Mexican border to receive votes of Massachusetts troops on Election Day.[24]

Samuel W. McCall

James Vincent Faraci: A messenger for the News Service in the 1930s, running sheets of news copy from the Copeland News Service to Newspaper Row on Tremont St., Faraci left when he was just 16 to become a jazz drummer, and made it big as "Jimmy Vincent" under bandleader ; one of his best known pieces of work is "I Wan'na Be Like You," recorded by Prima's band for the original Jungle Book film soundtrack.

Louis Prima

Louis Mathieu: After reporting for SHNS, Mathieu embarked on a 35-year career in a communications role for what became the , starting as publicity and traffic promotion assistant at the Boston Elevated Railway and continuing to serve through the system's iterations as the Metropolitan Transit Authority and MBTA.[25]

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Tom O'Connor: While an SHNS reporter, O'Connor became fascinated by the case, and spent the next 40 years investigating the story of the two Italian immigrants and their alleged crimes.[26] His research papers are now held by the Brandeis University Archives and Special Collections Department.[27]

Sacco and Vanzetti

Loretta McLaughlin: Editorial Page Editor of the in the early 1990s, she was married to News Service reporter Jim McLaughlin, befriended Ryan, and may well have done some pieces for him as she broke into the male-dominated journalism profession.

Boston Globe

Lawrence E. "Babe" Ryan: The brother of SHNS editor-publisher Paul Ryan, Lawrence reported for the News Service prior to his appointment as an assistant attorney general by Attorney General .[28]

Francis E. Kelly

Father John L. Doyle: Catholic priest, international missionary, advocate for immigrants and the poor. Started with SHNS as a copy boy before attending seminary.

[29]

: Boston Globe Washington bureau chief, contributed to the Globe's 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Francis X. Morrissey's judicial nomination, 1965 Nieman Fellow.[30]

James S. Doyle

: Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for the Boston Globe who helped lead its coverage of the Catholic clergy sex-abuse coverup. He worked for the News Service while attending Boston University and Suffolk Law School in the late 60's and early 70's.

Stephen Kurkjian

James McGarry: A rookie reporter with Kurkjian who shipped off to Vietnam soon after working at the News Service and was killed in 1969 after just a week overseas.

Robert Healy: Boston Globe State House Bureau Chief and editor.

Michael Levenson: New York Times general assignment reporter.

Cyndi Roy: Spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Democratic Party and Communications Director for Gov. Deval Patrick and Attorney General .

Maura Healey

: Congressional reporter for Politico and political analyst on CNN and MSNBC.

Kyle Cheney