Digboston.com is a product of DigBoston, Boston’s always witty and never dull guide to nightlife, opinion and events. Dig Publishing founded the alternative weekly in 1999. Dig Media Group Corporation acquired the publication in 2017.
DigBoston is Boston’s best and only alternative weekly publication. The Dig, as it’s affectionately known, is truly the cure for what’s ailing the curious mind. How do we do that, you ask?
We cover local news, arts, music, sex, food, movies and shopping in a lively, funny, incisive and, most importantly, dead honest style. This has helped us develop a rapidly growing, and rabidly loyal, readership unparalleled in the Boston market. At a time when both marketers and other publications are struggling to figure out how to attract young people, the Dig does it week in and week out. The Dig is the only publication in Boston that has an absolute lock on the 21-34 year-old demographic everyone’s after.
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Limited paid content accepted
DigBoston provides one paid content product to advertisers and marketers: Our “Dig Now” section. For more information, please email our sales team at sales@digboston.com. No proposals for any other form of paid content will be considered.
Submissions
Would you like to write for us? Pitch us at editorial@digboston.com. To submit, put PITCH in the subject line, plus one to two paragraphs about what you want to write, a one paragraph bio, and up to three links to clips.
Are you a photographer, illustrator or comic artist? Sorry, we’re not accepting submissions at this time. Please read this editorial to find out why and get a sense of what proposals we will consider from visual artists: https://digboston.com/how-to-do-photography-and-illustration-for-digboston/.
Internships
Interested in interning with us? We accept reporting interns on an ongoing basis. The time commitment for our internships is just a few hours a week, since they are currently unpaid. But we keep our interns working at what they do best, and never scut them out. Interns typically stay with us for two to three months. To apply, send an email with INTERNSHIP in the subject line plus two paragraphs about why you’d like to be a DigBoston intern, and links to your resume and up to three clips (no attachments) to editorial@digboston.com. Other types of internships are possible (photography, illustration, sales, etc.), just let us know what kind of internship you’d like to do. Only current and recent college students over age 18 are welcome to apply at this time. Applications from working adults with an interest in journalism will be considered on a case-by-case basis, but we don’t usually allow established media professionals to apply for internships.
[NOTE: The DigBoston print edition was suspended in April 2022, but we hope to be back on the stands in the future.]
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DigBoston is distributed every Thursday morning to self-serve newspaper dispensers and at businesses around the greater Boston area, including key neighborhoods like:
• Kenmore Square
• Faneuil Hall
• North End
• Newbury Street/Back Bay
• Beacon Hill
• Inman Square
• Jamaica Plain
• Allston/Brighton
• South End
• Brookline
• North Station
• South Station
• Financial District
• Davis Square, Somerville
• Union Square, Somerville
We want to make sure getting your hands on a copy of the Dig every week is as easy and convenient as possible. Please let us know if you have any suggestions for locations for our street boxes or if you run a business and would love to have a stack of Digs delivered to you for your customers to enjoy. Tell us right here. Thanks.
