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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

WHY GATEHOUSE’S BOSTON ‘MEGACLUSTER’ IS A THREAT TO DEMOCRACY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 23, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

No corporation should own most newspapers in a region

 

In last week’s Apparent Horizon, “GateHouse Editorial Flacks for Mass Retailers ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: bad jobs, Cambridge Chronicle, capitalism, child labor, Column, contingent work, economy, Fortress Investment Group LLC, GateHouse Media, history, Jason Pramas, labor, Massachusetts, megacluster, neoliberal, New Media Investment Group Inc, news, newspaper, Politics, Retailers Association of Massachusetts, socialism, SoftBank Group Corp, subminimum wage

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