DigBoston commits to expanding coverage of workers and unions For the past many years, I’ve written an annual Labor Day editorial for whatever publication I’m running at the time. And it’s always a relentlessly depressing exercise. Because there just hasn’t been much good news for working people in decades. Since the 1970s, […]
EVERY INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST’S WORST NIGHTMARE HAS BECOME REALITY
How the New York Times just hobbled nonprofit reporting incubators nationwide
10 REASONS NONPROFIT MEDIA IN BOSTON NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT (AND 5 WAYS YOU CAN HELP)
Among other things, we have had a team of more than 10 media makers over the past several months producing an elaborate multimedia series on bicycle safety and street infrastructure.
AROUND MY WAY PART I: AVENUE
South End rapper Avenue wants to tell you a story about how it all got started way back when
INTRODUCING … AROUND MY WAY (#AMWKBX)
A project from KillerBoomBox and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
#MEDIARANT: INSPIRED BY WEEK OF WATCHING SNOW COVERAGE
As for working journos, I’m here to rep for y’all. To rep for indies, and to kick the #mainstreammedia w/out the cheap right-wing vitriol
HOW RORY GILMORE FAILED LOCAL MEDIA
This is not a review of the new Gilmore Girls … just my cheap personal gripe that seemed worth sharing
MEDICINE FOR A MENDICANT MEDIA
Is there a better alternative to today’s busted model of mendicant journalism? I think so. The one least discussed in this country in this era, but perhaps the most important.
A DEPARTURE: AFTER FOUR YEARS OF BLISTERING COLUMNS, A FREE RADICAL CHANGE
I’m glad this column has allowed me to shine a light, however small, on the ills that plague the city. But we need more voices like mine, and more willingness to take risks.
THE DISAFFECTION OF TIBETAN ELECTIONS
Part III in ‘A Higher Allegiance: The Rise of a Transnational Identity in Boston’s Immigrant Communities,’ a BINJ series
