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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

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

GATEHOUSE STRIKES AGAIN: WORCESTER MAGAZINE ON THE ROPES

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 29, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

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 place—through middle-class suburban streets nearly bereft of foot traffic (and, in some places, sidewalks)—I looked at the many houses we passed. And thought about the fact that, despite their generally tidy exteriors and the lush greenery all around them, we were walking through a “news desert” in formation.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Column, corporation, Dedham, Democracy, DigBoston, downsizing, GateHouse, Jason Pramas, layoffs, Massachusetts, megacluster, multinational, news, news desert, newspaper, Worcester Magazine

MASS HYSTERIA: FROM GATEHOUSE, TO THE SLAKE HOUSE, TO THE STATE HOUSE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 10, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

The week Commonwealth residents looked at the encroaching national apocalypse and said, ‘Us too!’

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Charlie Baker, GateHouse, lawmakers, legislature, Mass, Massachusetts, racism, State House, Tom Menino

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