Some thoughts from a working journalist A few days ago I was at a local hospital for a routine test, and I got to talking to the tech […]
A Home in the Digital World
Some thoughts from a working journalist A few days ago I was at a local hospital for a routine test, and I got to talking to the tech […]
Celebrating the simultaneous anniversaries of the Hub’s most independent news outlets As I’ve written on numerous occasions, Chris Faraone, John Loftus, and I run two very different enterprises […]
In “an age of ubiquitous images” At the start of this year, I wrote an editorial on how to write for DigBoston that proved quite popular and led […]
Would-be reformers need to keep that in mind A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column about a bill (S. 80) filed with the Mass legislature by Rep. […]
More working journalists, less elite institutes Chris Faraone,* John Loftus,** and I spend a lot of time thinking about how to rebuild American journalism. Pretty much from the […]
AG Healey should form independent commission to investigate the failed agreement Last week in the first installment of this two-part column, I ran through the many problems with […]
The official narrative and the real story Readers might feel that this should be a time for me to take a victory lap. The GE Boston deal that […]
EDITORIAL Last Saturday, DigBoston, our nonprofit wing Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ), and our frequent partner the community access television station Somerville Media Center (SMC) turned out […]
Over the last several days, the Boston Herald has had its knives out in no less than three articles and two editorials against MassHousing—an independent, quasi-public agency created in […]
Like pretty much every journalist, I think about who I am writing for* from time to time. Most writers aren’t just sending messages into the ether, after all. Unless […]