More than all the other programs on NECN combined, ‘The Take’ offered an equitable bullhorn for individuals from groups that are rarely portrayed on their own terms on the evening news.
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: EPISODE 9
READ THE FIRST INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SECOND INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE THIRD INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SIXTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SEVENTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE EIGHTH INSTALLMENT HERE We were white and awful, but we still weren’t as racist as Vice The ’90z […]
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: EPISODE 8
READ THE FIRST INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SECOND INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE THIRD INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SIXTH INSTALLMENT HERE READ THE SEVENTH INSTALLMENT HERE The ’90z – 2003 (cont.) In which the paper’s distribution manager does not beat up a helpless old man […]
ACT NOW (OR LOCAL MEDIA WILL DIE)
While I see lots of people who are terribly upset about losing the Improper eulogizing on Facebook, I don’t hear anybody talking about what they—or rather, what we, as a community of people who appreciate informed and clever coverage of the colorful metropolis we live in—can do to help the remaining independent outlets
GLOBAL WARMING NEEDS FRONT PAGE COVERAGE
Extinction Rebellion urges the Boston Globe to declare climate emergency For society to undergo the drastic, transformational change required to save our species, respected media like the Boston Globe should lead in communicating the existential risks of climate damage. The Extinction Rebellion is an international mobilization whose first demand is that governments and […]
SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY SUMMIT: CONVENING A CITY TO IMPROVE ITS NEWS MEDIA
EDITORIAL Last Saturday, DigBoston, our nonprofit wing Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ), and our frequent partner the community access television station Somerville Media Center (SMC) turned out over 100 Somerville residents to the ONCE ballroom on Highland Ave to talk to 15 area journalists about local issues and happenings that they thought […]
THE MOST MADDENINGLY STUPID SUPER BOWL CLICKBAIT SO FAR
This is literally a story about the way that Tom Brady stopped holding something.
BUY ME, BOSTON: CLASSIC ADVERTISEMENT PATCHWORK PROVIDES VAST PORTRAIT OF MASS CULTURAL HISTORY
“I honestly thought that the most challenging thing would be to create this narrative of a city that doesn’t exist anymore purely with raw materials that everyone considers trash. Ads are cutting room floor. It’s like when you make a pie and you have extra dough and you make snickerdoodles out of it.”
EDITORIAL: A NOTE TO BOSTON-AREA JOURNALISM STUDENTS
Let’s talk So you’re a journalism student. This is a tough time to do what you’re doing. No question. According to Data USA, American colleges grant well over 10,000 journalism degrees a year. And sure, some of those are graduate degrees; so not all of those diplomas are going to newly minted journalists. […]
THE REAL FIGHT AGAINST FAKE NEWS
Project Censored’s top censored stories of 2018
