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AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. III, EPISODE 1

Written by BARRY THOMPSON Posted February 26, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

They thought we were just a bunch of fuckin’ scumbags putting out a paper, having a good time, smoking a bunch of pot. But they couldn’t give up that ultimate control and let us go nuts.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: AAN, alt media, alt weeklies, alt weekly, Baratunde Thurston, Boston, Boston Magazine, Deadpool, DigBoston, Fight Club, Harrison Ford, Jeff Lawrence, joe keohane, Kelsey Bennett, luke o neil, media, Metrocorp, Weekly Dig

AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. II, EPISODE 12 (2004 – 2007)

Written by BARRY THOMPSON Posted January 28, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

"I have one regret from my Dig time, and it’s the story I never wrote."

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: AAN, alt media, alt weeklies, alt weekly, Baratunde Thurston, Boston, Boston Magazine, Deadpool, DigBoston, Fight Club, Harrison Ford, Jeff Lawrence, joe keohane, Kelsey Bennett, luke o neil, media, Metrocorp, Weekly Dig

AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. II, EPISODE 11 (2004 – 2007)

Written by BARRY THOMPSON Posted January 1, 2020 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

“Sure! I’ll run into an abandoned subway tunnel for a freelancer I just met! No problem!” 

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: AAN, alt media, alt weeklies, alt weekly, Boston, Boston Magazine, Deadpool, DigBoston, Fight Club, Harrison Ford, Jeff Lawrence, joe keohane, Kelsey Bennett, Luke O'Neil, media, Metrocorp, Weekly Dig

AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. II, EPISODE 10 (2004 – 2007)

Written by BARRY THOMPSON Posted December 15, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

"It was kind of a perfect storm moment. Gay marriage was on the ballot. When you get a cover like that, it sticks with you for a while."

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: AAN, alt media, alt weeklies, alt weekly, Boston, Boston Magazine, Deadpool, DigBoston, Fight Club, Jeff Lawrence, joe keohane, Kelsey Bennett, Luke O'Neil, media, Metrocorp, Weekly Dig

AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. II, EPISODE 9

Written by BARRY THOMPSON Posted November 25, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

I asked Billy Joel fans questions that a fundamentalist Christian would ask after a Marilyn Manson concert in 1997, swapping the names “Billy Joel” for “Marilyn Manson.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: AAN, alt media, alt weeklies, alt weekly, Boston, Boston Magazine, Deadpool, DigBoston, Fight Club, Jeff Lawrence, joe keohane, Luke O'Neil, media, Metrocorp, Weekly Dig

AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. II, EPISODE 8

Written by BARRY THOMPSON Posted November 25, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

The intern wrote something like, “The ’80s! It’s fun! Dance party!” I looked at that and said, “No, this is too earnest. I will destroy it.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: AAN, alt media, alt weeklies, alt weekly, Boston, Boston Magazine, Deadpool, DigBoston, Fight Club, Jeff Lawrence, joe keohane, Luke O'Neil, media, Metrocorp, Weekly Dig

VOICE OVER: DIG STRONG AND MOURN ON

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 5, 2018 Filed Under: Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS

Here at the Dig, along with our partners from the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, we are busy working on multiple investigations—you know, the kind that critics who don’t know the first thing about independent media in 2018 keep alleging that papers like ours have stopped producing.

Filed Under: Dear Reader, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: alt weeklies, Boston, Journalism, media, New York, nonprofit journalism, NYC, Rupert Murdoch, Village Voice

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