It’s still early, but the Boston Globe seems to be attracting a lot of interest from prospective buyers. Over the weekend, car czar Ernie Boch Jr. said he would be […]
Media and Journalism
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Globe heah! Getchya Globe heah!
With the announcement by The New York Times Company that it will put the Globe and the rest of its New England holdings out for bid, the guessing game is […]
Posted inPolitics
Times to sell Globe, other regional holdings
The New York Times Company, trying to right its fiscal ship, has decided the best way to save the company is to bail on The Boston Globe and its other […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics, The Download, Transportation
The language of guns
When President Obama unveiled his gun reform package yesterday, one month after the Newtown massacre, there was a commonly used phrase that wasn’t uttered by him or Vice President Joe […]
Posted inPolitics
Only some opinions count
PUBLIC OPINION SURVEYS, done well, offer people an opportunity to speak to their leaders in an organized way. But the hunt for Electoral College votes tends to […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Globe embeds in Bowdoin-Geneva
The Boston Globe is located only a short distance from the Bowdoin-Geneva section of Dorchester, but the newspaper thought that wasn’t close enough. To get a better understanding of the […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Hitting the paywall
Information may want to be free, but journalists want to get paid. The trickle of newspapers and magazines that have erected some type of paywall is likely to grow next […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Burgess posting was a ‘screw up,’ Patrick says
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEHOURS AFTER the Boston Globe reported that the state highway safety director has a long record of accidents and driving infractions, the Patrick administration indicated that Sheila […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
The SJC’s drunk driving report
For the second time in less than three years, the state’s court system is marching to the tune of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team. The first instance came in 2010, […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Hard times at the New York Times
New York Times union employees staged the world’s most polite union walkout yesterday, filing out of the newspaper’s headquarters for a brief period to protest the slow pace of contract […]
Posted inPolitics
Political ad filings show what TV shows charge
This story is the third in a series on television ad buys on local stations. Earlier: Young Guns set sights on Tierney-Tisei race and Kennedy places orders for $450,000 in […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
Young Guns set sights on Tierney-Tisei race
A conservative Super PAC connected to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Tea Party favorite, is coming into town with guns blazing to try to oust embattled US Rep. John […]
Posted inPolitics
Boston.com launches online radio station
RadioBDC’s reach may be worldwide but its focus is parochial. The online radio station and newest member of the Boston.com family made its debut on Monday with “I Want My […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Public relations misstep at gaming agency
Internal emails indicate the Massachusetts Gaming Commission earlier this year failed to anticipate public and media reaction to the hiring of Carl Stanley McGee, a Patrick administration official who had […]
Posted inPolitics
Was it something we said?
massinc is a small nonprofit that does research, hosts civic events, and publishes CommonWealth four times a year. Most people outside of our fairly wonky world have never heard of […]
Posted inPolitics
Summer 2012 Correspondence
Democracy is messy, but not a weakness Your Editor’s Note, “Closed-door democracy” (Spring ’12), was meaningful to me. It’s human nature not to appreciate what we have until we lose […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Domain bonanza
The World Wide Web is getting crowded, or so they say, so the international nonprofit that governs the way the Internet operates decided to see if there was any interest […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
As the Globe turns
Rumblings inside the New York Times Co. indicate that the Boston Globe may be heading toward the auction block. But the Times Co.’s exit plan got a lot cloudier yesterday, […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
FNX signing off
No, wise guy, WFNX has not already been off the air for a couple years. But the alternative rock icon will be signing off after Phoenix publisher Stephen Mindich sold […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
A remote chance of seeing TV political spending records
Keep the clicker ready. Now that the final showdown between President Obama and Mitt Romney is all but set in stone, both sides and their surrogates are gearing up for […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
Globe raising price again
The Boston Globe is raising the newsstand price of its daily paper by 25 percent next week as it scrambles to prop up circulation revenue in the face of declining […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
All the news that’s fit to post
How are you reading this? On your smartphone? Your tablet? If so, you are part of the exploding audience that gets its news from traditional sources but through changing delivery […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
GateHouse bonuses give clue they don’t have one
(A correction has been added to this story) The problem with being a publicly traded company is all your missteps are there for everyone to see. The problem with being […]
