A former employee at the Telegram & Gazette is preparing to launch a digital daily news startup sometime between April and July. The Worcester Sun will appear online only during […]
Media and Journalism
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Braude shakes it up
Jim Braude shook up the local news business this week by announcing he is jumping from his Broadside TV show at New England Cable News to Greater Boston at WGBH. […]
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The Boston.com chameleon
“I think Boston.com is going to have a little more edge to it,” Boston Globe CEO Mike Sheehan told CommonWealth magazine last summer in laying out his vision for the bifurcated […]
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MassLive’s statewide strategy
A SPRINGFIELD-BASED NEWS outlet is taking a run at being the go-to source for state news in Massachusetts. MassLive, a website affiliated with the Springfield Republican, is trying to expand […]
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John Henry’s sweet deal
John Henry, the billionaire owner of the Boston Red Sox and the Boston Globe, appears to have negotiated a very sweet deal when he sold the Worcester Telegram & Gazette […]
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GateHouse gobbles up more newspapers
Remember when GateHouse Media officials sent out memos cutting back on buying things like coffee and office supplies like, oh, paper, and the company’s stock went from an initial offering […]
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Herald drops libel appeal, to pay $903,000
The Boston Herald dropped its appeal and agreed to pay $903,000 to end a libel case stemming from a 2009 story alleging that a woman engaged in “sexual acts” with […]
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Globe CEO Sheehan talks business, Henry
Boston Globe CEO Mike Sheehan says the company is sifting through final bids for its property on Morrissey Boulevard and preparing to launch an expansion of the newspaper’s business section. […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
Iowa publisher hired to run Worcester paper
Halifax Media Group is hiring a native of Leominster, who is currently the publisher of an Iowa newspaper, to run the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. James Normandin is scheduled to […]
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The holy media wars
The Boston Globe built some serious buzz for its soon-to-come Catholic website on Wednesday by unveiling the site’s name (Crux) and by breaking the Eighth Commandment by stealing columnist Margery […]
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The puzzling ProJo purchase
When GateHouse Media, the conglomerate that owns scores of smaller daily and weekly papers across Massachusetts, entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year, it did so with an eye on getting […]
Posted inEconomy
Mr. Sunshine
FOR SOMEONE RUNNING what many consider a dead-end business, Mike Sheehan is incredibly optimistic. The former Hill Holliday ad executive, who took over as the Boston Globe’s first-ever CEO in […]
Posted inEducation, Politics
Globe Foundation gives full-page ad to Walsh
The Boston Globe Foundation donated a full-page ad in Wednesday’s newspaper to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh so he could thank the staff of the Boston Public Schools at the close […]
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Court says pay to play in television
The mantra among Internet cognoscenti is “Information wants to be free.” What’s strange is that many who argue that often are looking to profit off that information even if it […]
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Hollywood East moves a little west
It wasn’t that long ago that area newspapers and other media outlets were filled with stories about the burgeoning movie industry and plans to open sprawling production facilities and sound […]
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Globe stops shrinking
The Boston Globe, which has been steadily shrinking in size and scope for more than a decade, expanded on Friday, launching a special weekly section devoted to state, local, and […]
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Racism trending
It was all too painfully familiar, making it that much more easy to believe. P.K. Subban, a black player on the hated Montreal Canadiens team playing in a near-lily white […]
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Free petitions and Bay State click bait
Boston magazine’s David Bernstein did journalism a favor this week. The web was aflame over a Massachusetts bill that purported to forbid a person seeking a divorce from having sex […]
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Tabloid trouble
The Boston Herald and one of its reporters, Jessica Van Sack, recklessly published a false and defamatory story in 2009 alleging that a woman engaged in “sexual acts” with a […]
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The quick Fox Brown-out
In business, and in general, when a contract expires, that means a person and a company are no longer tethered to each other. They can choose to continue the relationship […]
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Trying to Patch the sinking news lifeboat
Soccer is the game of the future, its deriders have long said, and always will be. After the latest news that Patch, the pet project of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, […]
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Globe owner talks
John Henry told a business group on Wednesday that his job as owner of the Boston Globe is similar in some ways to his job as the principal owner of […]
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Digital journalism guerrilla heads for Hub
New York Times media critic David Carr spends his days sifting through the wreckage, and the opportunity, that digital journalism has created. Now he’s coming to Boston to sort through […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
The Inside Track on Purcell-Henry meeting
Now don’t breathe a word of this. Because nobody’s supposed to know. But Pat Purcell, the publisher of the Boston Herald, sat down with John Henry at his Brookline mansion […]
