There are still courthouses around Massachusetts where index card files reign over computer files and you still have to go to clerks’ offices to get civil and criminal case documents […]
Media and Journalism
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
In Worcester, a web site that names names
Matt Amorello, the former head of the Mass. Turnpike Authority and the Big Dig, debuted a transportation column this morning that criticizes what he calls the minimal impact of stimulus […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
The value of a vigorous press
On Friday, Boston Globe editor Martin Baron was honored as the 2012 recipient of the Stephen Hamblett First Amendment Award, given by the New England First Amendment Center. Below is […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
What’s yours is the Times’s and what’s the Times’s is the Times’s
The New York Times, like most entertainment, publishing, and media behemoths, is firmly in favor of the stalled efforts in Congress to reel in copyright infringement and outright piracy on […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
The Real Romney
The Boston Globe reporters Michael Kranish and Scott Helman have provided a genuine service with the publication of The Real Romney. After reading through the book I have only one […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Who will like Facebook’s IPO?
How much are our jokes, our stories, our likes and dislikes, our pictures, our family and friends worth? To you, priceless, but on the open market, perhaps as much as […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
The Boston Occupier goes old school
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misidentified the original name of The Boston Occupier. It began under the name The Occupy Boston Globe. Media watchers who proclaim that print […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Common ground for strange Web bedfellows
President Obama came out against some of the provisions in the two bills in Congress that would put the boot on online piracy so you’d think the remaining Republican contenders […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Boston.com jumps into ticket scalping
The Boston Globe’s Boston.com website is now reselling tickets to sporting events under its own name through a partnership with Ace Ticket, reports the Nieman Journalism Lab. The lab’s story […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Lawrence mayor, paper call temporary truce
mayor william lantigua’s successful appeal for the state to run the Lawrence Public Schools brought about another big development: the mayor sat down to talk with an Eagle-Tribune reporter who […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Render unto the Globe
When I was a co-op student at the Globe’s State House bureau a couple decades back, the paper’s political editor at the time asked me to write a story about […]
Posted inEducation, The Download
Herald publishes five-part education series!
Even in its heydays, the Boston Herald was hard-pressed to match the Boston Globe in substantive beat reporting, especially on issues such as education, but it wasn’t for lack of […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Murray’s mystery ride
The Boston Herald’s Howie Carr asks the question everyone has been wondering this week: What was Lt. Gov. Tim Murray really doing in the predawn hours on Wednesday when he […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Dialing for dollars
training high school journalists wasn’t the first order of business for Joe Bergantino when he launched the New England Center for Investigative Reporting at Boston University. But as it became […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
The good news about news
where there are people, there’s news. And where there’s news, there are journalists. Why? Because we have learned that when professionals make it their business to look at the world […]
Posted inPolitics
A novel idea
tripp jones traces most of his career path, including the founding of MassINC 15 years ago, to a chance meeting in Washington, DC, in 1986. At the time, Jones was […]
Posted inArts and Culture, Politics
What happens when a community loses its newspaper?
Holyoke City Hall, looking up Dwight StreetFor days, hundreds of callers speaking in the hushed tones more commonly reserved for funeral parlors queried switchboard operators inside the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram: […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Silent crisis
Gov. Deval Patrick issued a press release in September announcing seven new appointees to the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees. The release contained all the basics: their names, their […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Dimming the Globe’s Spotlight
The term “scoop” in a journalistic sense has become a cliché, used far more by outsiders than those in the business, if it’s ever heard in newsrooms at all. But […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
Sources say sports reporting needs to raise its game
While we don’t usually have a sports page here at the Download, the ongoing drama that is the Boston Red Sox points to a troubling trend in journalism: What, exactly, […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
Bay State Banner loan extended
A nonprofit affiliate of the Boston Redevelopment Authority is giving the Bay State Banner more time to pay off a $200,000 delinquent loan originally arranged by Mayor Thomas Menino two […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
ProPublica zeroes in on Fair Districts Mass
A ProPublica investigation found that some independent groups promoting redistricting plans across the country are anything but. It’s probably no surprise that one of the organizations that they probed was […]
Posted inPolitics
Globe launches pay website
Boston.com splits in two today, spinning off BostonGlobe.com as a separate, subscription-only website costing $3.99 a week. It’s an attempt by the region’s largest news organization to begin collecting money […]
Posted inPolitics
Pierce leaving Globe after being disciplined
Boston Globe magazine writer Charlie Pierce, who needs little prompting to offer opinions on everything from sports to politics, is leaving for a job at Esquire magazine after the newspaper […]
