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MEDIA CONSOLIDATION ACCELERATES IN SOMERVILLE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 22, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Prototype "Medville Transnal" front page. Collage by Jason Pramas.

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

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, consolidation, Democracy, editorial, Gannett, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Medford Transcript, media, multinational, news, newspaper, Somerville Journal, Somerville News Garden, Somerville Wire

IMPORTANT STUFF THAT I NEGLECTED TO INCLUDE IN MY BOSTON MAGAZINE ARTICLE ABOUT THE MUTILATION OF LOCAL MEDIA: PART 1 OF 1,000

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 6, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm

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.”

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, Media Farm Tagged With: Bedford Citizen, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cape Cod Chronicle, Gannett, GateHouse, Grafton Common, Harvard Press, hyperlocal, Journalism, Massachusetts, media, North Suburban News, Provincetown Independent, The Shoestring, universal hub

THE HORROR OF MEDIA CONSOLIDATION AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted August 25, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader

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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader Tagged With: BINJ, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, Gannett, GateHouse, media, media consolidation, megacluster, SOMERVILLE

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