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ACT NOW (OR LOCAL MEDIA WILL DIE)

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted May 3, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm

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

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boston Media, Improper Bostonian, media, nonprofit

BUY ME, BOSTON: CLASSIC ADVERTISEMENT PATCHWORK PROVIDES VAST PORTRAIT OF MASS CULTURAL HISTORY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 7, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction

"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."

Filed Under: A+E, Books, FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: books, Boston History, Boston magazines, Boston Media, Brian Coleman, Buy Me Boston, Dirty Old Boston, media, throwback Rathskeller Brattle Theatre

BOT OR NOT, THE VOYAGER AIN’T SO BAD AFTER ALL

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 25, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

"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."

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: bosarts, Boston, Boston Media, Boston music, Boston Voyager, Interviews, media, Reddit

GUEST MEDIA FARM: HOW NOT TO REPORT ON POLICE BRUTALITY

Written by ANDREW QUEMERE AND MAYA SHAFFER Posted May 31, 2016 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

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  ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: allegedly, Boston Media, Boston Police Department, Boylston Street, cops, Police, police brutality, scuffle, umbrella

BOSTON DOT C’MON: SOMEONE HAS TO SAY OUT LOUD THE SHIT WE ALL KNOW ABOUT BOSTON’S MOST PATHETIC NEWS SITE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 22, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BDC, Boston Globe, Boston Media, Boston.com, clickbait, corporate media, Morrissey Boulevard

TIME TO BINJ: INTRODUCING THE BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted June 23, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

We are not establishing from scratch or staffing yet another mill to feed the hourly news cycle and rat race.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: Alternative Media, Avatar, BINJ, BINJ Reports, Boston After Dark, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Boston Media, Boston Phoenix, Cambridge, Chris Faraone, indie media, nonprofit news, Our Bodies Our Selves, publishing

GUEST MEDIA FARM: WHO IS KEVIN PETERSON?

Written by JAMARHL CRAWFORD Posted June 1, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

Peterson is apparently attempting to be seen as an intellectual voice of reason, a behind-the-scenes convener and a major player.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: Blackstonian, Boston black leadership, Boston Herald, Boston Media, Center for Collaborative Leadership, Jamarhl Crawford, Kevin C. Peterson, New Democracy Coalition, Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, UMASS-Boston

DEAR BOSTON MEDIA: PLEASE STEAL THIS ARTICLE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted April 9, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

From the Olympics to police brutality, the Hub reporters should piggyback more independent research and ideas

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Anchorman, bay state examiner, Bay Windows, Big Brother, Blackstonian, Boston 2024, Boston Globe, Boston Media, Boston Olympics, Boston Phoenix, Charter Schools, Deval Patrick, Dorchester Reporter, Eileen Donoghue, John Fish, Open Media Boston, police brutality, reporting, Ron Burgundy, SOMERVILLE, surveillance, William Coyne

BREAKING BAPTIST

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 16, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

There’s a bigger story behind the case of accused killer Dean Shaun Harrison than is being told. Here’s some of it …

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Baptist Priests, Boston, Boston Herald, Boston Media, Boston Public Schools, BPS, Braking Bad, Dean Harrison, John McDonough, Lawrence Brown, Marty Walsh, Michele McPhee, Mount Calvary, Reverend Shaun Harrison, Shaun O. Harrison Sr., Ten Point Coalition, Walter White

THE FIVE KINDS OF TSARNAEV MEDIA COVERAGE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted March 10, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

There’s some good and even great material out there too, sure, but most of what we’re finding falls among these categories …

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston Globe, Boston Media, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Reuters, Toronto Sun, Tsarnaev Trial, Types of Tsarnaev Coverage

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