Calls for regional consortium of news outlets to improve and expand climate change coverage Last month, during the fearsome heat wave that saw Boston temperatures soar to 98 degrees Fahrenheit for two days in a row, 400 chickens died in New Hampshire. According to the Boston Globe, they succumbed to “heatstroke at […]
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. II, EPISODES 1 + 2
“Keohane and I went on this pub crawl through Cambridge, and I’m teetering down the street in my ridiculous high heels. We got into the People’s Republik, and there was a bunch of regulars, crusty old dudes, and I slammed my award on the bar. Keohane started telling people I have a glass eye. I rolled with it. It was beautiful.”
LETTER ON THE EAST CAMBRIDGE COURTHOUSE DEBATE
July 8, 2019 To the Editor, My name is Joe Aiello, and I have been a resident of East Cambridge for the last ten years. I have spent countless volunteer hours over the last six years on the Sullivan Courthouse redevelopment, which includes the city-owned First Street Garage – whether it be […]
EDITORIAL: THE ARTS SPEECH
DigBoston wants to hear from Boston-area neighborhood artists and arts reporters Every few months, we start a new intern cohort at DigBoston. And since we’ve taken to accepting larger numbers of interns—we currently have 16 for the summer—inevitably several are arts reporters. Naturally, we want reporting interns to know what we expect of […]
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: EPISODE 9
READ THE FIRST INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SECOND INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE THIRD INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SIXTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SEVENTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE EIGHTH INSTALLMENT HERE We were white and awful, but we still weren’t as racist as Vice The ’90z […]
HOW TO FIND NEWS YOU CAN TRUST
Some thoughts from a working journalist A few days ago I was at a local hospital for a routine test, and I got to talking to the tech administering it. She asked what I did. I said that I’m a journalist. And her reaction was very much of this era. She started talking […]
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: EPISODE 8
READ THE FIRST INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SECOND INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE THIRD INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SIXTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SEVENTH INSTALLMENT HERE The ’90z – 2003 (cont.) In which the paper’s distribution manager does not beat up a helpless old man […]
DOUBLE HAPPINESS: FOUR YEARS OF BINJ, TWO YEARS OF DIGBOSTON
Celebrating the simultaneous anniversaries of the Hub’s most independent news outlets As I’ve written on numerous occasions, Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and I run two very different enterprises simultaneously: an independent alternative weekly newspaper, DigBoston; and an incubator dedicated to producing longform investigative reporting, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ). We’re experimenting […]
GATEHOUSE STRIKES AGAIN: WORCESTER MAGAZINE ON THE ROPES
Time for journalists and readers to fight back against the destruction of American newspapers Over the holiday weekend, my wife and I had occasion to take the commuter rail out to Dedham to a family gathering in memory of loved ones who have left us. As we walked the mile to my cousin’s […]
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: EPISODE 7
The one in which there is an altercation and the editor is fired
