While I see lots of people who are terribly upset about losing the Improper eulogizing on Facebook, I don’t hear anybody talking about what they—or rather, what we, as a community of people who appreciate informed and clever coverage of the colorful metropolis we live in—can do to help the remaining independent outlets
BUY ME, BOSTON: CLASSIC ADVERTISEMENT PATCHWORK PROVIDES VAST PORTRAIT OF MASS CULTURAL HISTORY
“I honestly thought that the most challenging thing would be to create this narrative of a city that doesn’t exist anymore purely with raw materials that everyone considers trash. Ads are cutting room floor. It’s like when you make a pie and you have extra dough and you make snickerdoodles out of it.”
BOT OR NOT, THE VOYAGER AIN’T SO BAD AFTER ALL
“If the Boston Globe isn’t gonna profile artists in this city, I’m fine with BV doing it. Maybe it shows outlets staffed by humans that there’s value in that sort of thing.”
GUEST MEDIA FARM: HOW NOT TO REPORT ON POLICE BRUTALITY
When cases of police brutality appear on video, the local media tend to shut off their collective critical thinking skills and even side with the police. The coverage of the now-infamous video of off-duty Boston Police Department officer Edward Barrett attacking a pedestrian who hurt his feelings is a prime example of why you […]
BOSTON DOT C’MON: SOMEONE HAS TO SAY OUT LOUD THE SHIT WE ALL KNOW ABOUT BOSTON’S MOST PATHETIC NEWS SITE
I’ve been known to get inebriated with reporter friends at bars and break into soliloquies about how I would run Boston.com if I took over as its editor. Some versions involve me strolling in behind a cloud of smoke and reinstating typewriters, while other incarnations have me sporting a Carmen Miranda hat for easy […]
TIME TO BINJ: INTRODUCING THE BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM
We are not establishing from scratch or staffing yet another mill to feed the hourly news cycle and rat race.
GUEST MEDIA FARM: WHO IS KEVIN PETERSON?
Peterson is apparently attempting to be seen as an intellectual voice of reason, a behind-the-scenes convener and a major player.
DEAR BOSTON MEDIA: PLEASE STEAL THIS ARTICLE
From the Olympics to police brutality, the Hub reporters should piggyback more independent research and ideas
BREAKING BAPTIST
There’s a bigger story behind the case of accused killer Dean Shaun Harrison than is being told. Here’s some of it …
THE FIVE KINDS OF TSARNAEV MEDIA COVERAGE
There’s some good and even great material out there too, sure, but most of what we’re finding falls among these categories …
