Politicker MA, a website that covered state politics at a time when Beacon Hill coverage is steadily being reduced in both the broadcast and print media, apparently expired this weekend. (The […]
Media and Journalism
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Bob Woodward warns North Adams audience about “secret government”
Bob Woodward was in North Adams last night, and MassINC executive vice president John Schneider has an analysis: It’s a long way from Boston to the campus of the Mass. […]
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Wilkerson informant not so informative
In today's interview with the Globe's Adrian Walker, businessman Ron Wilburn publicly admits for the first time that he is the FBI informant seen handing cash to former state senator […]
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Red ink at publisher of community newspapers
From the Boston Business Journal:GateHouse Media Inc., publisher of a number of Bay State newspapers, said Friday it lost $18.5 million in the third quarter, bringing its year to date […]
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Point of entry
we live in a time of demographic upheaval. We are becoming foreign-born, non-English-speaking, black, brown, yellow, and white. That’s as true in Massachusetts as it is nationally. In 2005, a […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
News from a new generation
Walter Robinson, who won a Pulitzer Prizeat the Globe, heads the investigativereporting program at Northeastern University.A decade is a long time. But advocates for senior citizens have been trying to […]
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Your blog of blogs
Illustration by Nick Galifianakis HERE’S WHAT Adam Gaffin finds frustrating. He’s in his car, heading for a meeting in Framingham, where he works in tech publishing. He’s got the radio […]
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No-shout zone
jerry from mattapan never knew what hit him. It’s a Monday evening in late October, and the journalist Sally Bedell Smith is a guest on NightSide with Dan Rea, on […]
Posted inHealth Care, Politics
Correspondence
IT’S NOT FAIR TO PUNISH MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES In reference to your article “Municipal Meltdown” (CW, Fall ’07), I would like to set the record straight. You stated that the Professional […]
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Plugged in, tuned out
it’s morning in Boston. Take a look around. Whether you’re on the subway, walking through downtown, or standing in line at Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts, you’re surrounded by young people—twentysomethings, […]
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Full disclosure
less than a year after its launch, the New England News Forum is a work in progress. At a time when the mainstream media are under assault from bloggers, political […]
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Disappearing ink
one of matt Storin’s last assignments before he retired as editor of The Boston Globe was to carry out a painful round of downsizing. It was the spring of 2001, […]
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The cable guys
it may not be etched in stone, but it’s a rule nonetheless: No one can write about public-access television without making reference to “Wayne’s World,” the Saturday Night Live skit—later […]
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New media guru Dan Gillmor wants to reinvent traditional journalism
BLOGGERS IN ONE corner, journalists in the other. Or is it bloggers versus journalists? Perhaps this is a false dichotomy, or an outdated one. After all, it was nearly two […]
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Maynard Highs radio station lives to broadcast another day
sometime around the middle of September a switch will be flicked, and the airwaves of Maynard will once again be filled with local music shows, community announcements, high school football […]
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Then and Now
in the lifetime of a magazine, 10 years can be an eternity. In the case of CommonWealth, they represent 44 issues on the shelf and, considering the failure rate of […]
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Paul La Camera takes WBUR local
some 50 staff members of WBUR Radio have crowded into the third-floor cafeteria for a lunchtime event with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deval Patrick. They settle into chairs or stand around […]
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CW comes of age
Spring 2006Winston Churchill said, “History will be kind to me because I intend to write it.” In much the same vein, I intend, on the occasion of CommonWealth’s 10th anniversary […]
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Rereading CommonWealth
Spring 2006 ORIGINALLY, I PLANNED to treat the 10th anniversary of the magazine as an excuse to re-read – and, I must confess, when it comes to some older issues […]
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Watertown provides a case study of citizen journalism on the web
Citizen journalist Lisa Williams wants to add to,not replace, the media mainstream.On an early-October evening at Watertown High School, Lisa Williams is in full schmooze mode. Williams, a 35-year-old mother […]
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CommonWealth Forum weighs mass transit
INTRO TEXT The state’s plan to extend the MBTA’s Green Line to West Medford does not promise enough environmental benefits to justify its cost, according to one panelist at the […]
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Setting an Agenda
“We’ve always styled ourselves as the voice of the region,” says Rick Holmes, the opinion editor for The MetroWest Daily News. “Heck, we invented the term MetroWest.” Indeed, the newspaper […]
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Former political activist Jim Braude wins converts as a broadcast news star
It’s hour two of the Wilfredo Laboy Telethon, and Jim Braude and Margery Eagan have managed to raise only $37. But since the telephone lines are lit up—with callers ready […]
