Media and Journalism

A correction and a clarification has been added to this story. A RECENT story in CommonWealth on a series of articles in the Boston Globe sponsored by Philip Morris has prompted pushback by both the newspaper and the tobacco giant. Their complaints have prompted us here at CommonWealth to look at how we handled the story, […]

BOSTON GLOBE Media Partners produced emails and text messages on Monday contradicting the claims of a series of prominent scientists who claimed they were interviewed for Globe sponsored content without being told the sponsor of the advertising was tobacco giant Philip Morris International. The scientists cried foul in an article published by CommonWealth on March […]

Editor’s note: The Globe on Monday April 4 shared emails and text messages with the scientists quoted in this story that sharply contradicted their statements about not being told about Philip Morris’s involvement. CommonWealth is reaching out to the scientists for an explanation and plans a follow-up once more information is obtained. Additional editor’s note: […]

AS COVID-19 continued to dominate society in 2021, a story about the virus also topped CommonWealth’s most-read stories of the year. In early September, as the Delta variant was causing COVID cases to rise, companies were struggling to manufacture enough at-home rapid tests to meet the demand. CommonWealth’s most-read story in 2021 looked at the […]