I have yet to settle on some hard and fast rules for our style guide, but I’m certainly a lot more educated on the matter now that I’ve considered these and other informed comments.
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. II, EPISODE 4
He made up a fictitious ideal reader named Spike. The memo read, “Spike works in advertising, but he goes to punk clubs at night,” and this and that. Fuck you and die.
THE HORROR OF MEDIA CONSOLIDATION AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
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.
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. II, EPISODE 3
The pillar of independent journalism you’re fortunate enough to be reading at the moment used to be owned by the same corporation that publishes the upscale glossies Philadelphia Magazine and Boston Magazine.
THE DIG WILL POP UP IN A MANCHESTER BAR FOR A WEEK LEADING UP TO THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
Independent journalists from BINJ, DigBoston, and several other sites and papers will use the facilities, which we first conceived as an alternative to the hotel across the street where journalists from bigs like CBS and CNN enjoyed cozy press accommodations while the rest of us sat on the carpet in the lobby and fought over electrical outlets.
AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE DIG: VOL. II, EPISODES 1 + 2
“Keohane and I went on this pub crawl through Cambridge, and I’m teetering down the street in my ridiculous high heels. We got into the People’s Republik, and there was a bunch of regulars, crusty old dudes, and I slammed my award on the bar. Keohane started telling people I have a glass eye. I rolled with it. It was beautiful.”
A LETTER TO NECN ABOUT THE CANCELLATION OF ‘THE TAKE’
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
CATCH UP VOL. I: EPISODE: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 The ’90z – 2003 (cont.) In which the paper’s distribution manager does not beat up a helpless old man (on purpose) It’s easy to fixate on power struggles between characters with important-sounding jobs like “editor” and “publisher.” But sometimes, a supporting cast member makes a decision with truly […]
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
