Gannett merges its Somerville Journal and Medford Transcript newspapers as BINJ’s Somerville News Garden project and the Somerville Media Center launch a new municipal foundation to fund local journalism
MEDIA CONSOLIDATION ACCELERATES IN SOMERVILLE
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IMPORTANT STUFF THAT I NEGLECTED TO INCLUDE IN MY BOSTON MAGAZINE ARTICLE ABOUT THE MUTILATION OF LOCAL MEDIA: PART 1 OF 1,000
Titled “No News Is Bad News,” it’s about how the predicament of local media in this state has gone “from bad to worse,” what “a world without news really looks like,” and, specifically, how “the marriage of GateHouse and Gannett looms like an Angel of Death over what’s left of the local media landscape.”
THE HORROR OF MEDIA CONSOLIDATION AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
If you and other people like you don’t help us, if you don’t boost independent journalism beyond NPR and resultantly leave the few of us who remain on the battlefield alone to find solutions by rubbing the few resources available together and wishing on a star—then guess what, we’re going to burn out.
