
Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets
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Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics
Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets
Written by VEKONDA LUANGAPHAY Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
“Realistically, we cannot replace professional journalism, but we do fill in some of the gaps and provide local coverage that isn’t getting covered.”
Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS
With platforms online and in print, the campaign serves as an outlet for reporters facing challenges at The Boston Globe.
BINJ staff and volunteers will be there every Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 5pm through Dec. 20.
Written by CHRIS FARAONE Filed Under: A+E, Interviews
"If you’re living the life, you don’t need to go see how someone else is interpreting it."
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update
Without your help, we can’t serve democracy by reporting the news
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update
[W]e’re asking all journalists, journalism educators, journalism students, media reform activists, and DigBoston readers who agree that the state journalism commission should be created to call your Mass state senator today and ask him/her to tell Sens. Eric Lesser (D - Longmeadow), Michael Rodrigues (D - Somerset), and Patrick O'Connor (D - Weymouth), who are on the conference committee, to keep the journalism commission in the final economic development bill.
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update
[W]e’re asking all readers who are concerned about the collapse of local news media to contact your state representative and ask them to cosponsor Amendment #40 of H. 4879. The more cosponsors the amendment has, the more likely House Ways and Means will pass it. If that happens it has a good chance of making it through the full legislative process for this session. And becoming a law. Which would be a promising outcome for the future of local news in the Commonwealth.
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update
SJC decision says if you can’t pay rent, you can’t fight foreclosure
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update
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