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MEDIA CONSOLIDATION ACCELERATES IN SOMERVILLE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 22, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Prototype "Medville Transnal" front page. Collage by Jason Pramas.

Gannett merges its Somerville Journal and Medford Transcript newspapers as BINJ’s Somerville News Garden project and the Somerville Media Center launch a new municipal foundation to fund local journalism

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, consolidation, Democracy, editorial, Gannett, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Medford Transcript, media, multinational, news, newspaper, Somerville Journal, Somerville News Garden, Somerville Wire

EDITORIAL: MAJOR NEWSPAPERS SHOULD GIVE BACK FACEBOOK GRANTS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 12, 2020 Filed Under: Analysis, COVID, Editorial, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Money should go to the local independent news outlets the digital giant has hurt worst

Filed Under: Analysis, COVID, Editorial, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: business, Canada, Chris Faraone, conglomerate, corporation, criticism, data, DigBoston, Digital, editorial, funding, grant, greed, Guam, Jason Pramas, John Loftus, Journalism, media, multinational, national, news, newspapers, nonprofit, PR, public relations, Puerto Rico, slider, social media, usa

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

AMAZON OCTAGON

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 10, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Mass pols stand ready to fight each other for the right to bribe a multinational

 

At least 17 Massachusetts cities and towns are now preparing to do battle with each other—and hundreds more municipalities nationwide—for the dubious “honor” ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Abington, Amazon, Apparent Horizon, Billerica, Boston, bribe, capitalism, corporation, criticism, deal, Fall River, General Electric, Giveaway, Haverhill, Jason Pramas, jobs, labor, Lawrence, Lowell, Massachusetts, Methuen, multinational, New Bedford, North Andover, public, Revere, Rockland, SOMERVILLE, Springfield, subcontracting, taxes, Tewksbury, Weymouth, Worcester

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