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
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: EPISODE 6
Contrary to rumors, the distribution manager never lived in the delivery van
HOW TO DO PHOTOGRAPHY AND ILLUSTRATION FOR DIGBOSTON
In “an age of ubiquitous images” At the start of this year, I wrote an editorial on how to write for DigBoston that proved quite popular and led to an increase in the number of article pitches we get from freelance journalists weekly. But it also led a growing number of photographers and […]
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: EPISODE 5
“It was psychotropic. It was insane. Shit glowed. Literally glowed green. Would change anybody’s disposition.”
