The timing couldn’t have been better. No sooner did this publication release last week’s editorial announcing our “unnaming” policy of refusing to print the names of ultra-right wing leaders and organizations, than the Gray Lady provided the best possible example of the type of reporting we think American news organizations need to stop producing […]
ANNOUNCING THE DIGBOSTON ‘UNNAMING’ POLICY
Doing our part to shut down the ultra right As journalists, my DigBoston colleagues and I have a responsibility to do our best to cover news of the day fairly and accurately. And that’s based on our abiding belief in practising ethical journalism. Even though we’re street reporters for an alternative urban news weekly—a […]
EVERY DAY IS LABOR DAY
DigBoston commits to expanding coverage of workers and unions For the past many years, I’ve written an annual Labor Day editorial for whatever publication I’m running at the time. And it’s always a relentlessly depressing exercise. Because there just hasn’t been much good news for working people in decades. Since the 1970s, […]
#CONDEMBTA (THE RECAP)
A public conversation about transit infrastructure
SPECIAL PHOTO FEATURE: #CONDEMBTA
A visual essay on public transportation infrastructure and priorities in Greater Boston
REVIEW: WILL BUTLER AT MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS
Butler’s band, a melange of standing percussionist (Antibalas’s Miles Arntzen), family keyboardist (sister-in-law Julie Shore), and backup singers, covered Policy’s ten songs with precision even when guitar cords and monitors fuzzed out.
