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Bluesky is having its moment; plus, Soon-Shiong reverses himself, and a local-news event in Ipswich
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From the moment that Elon Musk bought Twitter in late 2022 and took a wrecking ball to it, millions of appalled users have sought alternatives. Mastodon, a decentralized nonprofit, got some early b…
on Thu, 2PM
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The ProJo will shut its printing plant; plus, Google News exec quits, and healthier news habits
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The Providence Journal is shutting down its printing plant next March because its previous owner bet on a technology that is no longer supported. As a friend who’s now retired from the Journa…
on Wed, 3PM
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The Globe’s Rhode Island edition will partner with WPRI-TV in Providence
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The Boston Globe’s Rhode Island edition has announced a partnership with WPRI-TV (Channel 12) in Providence. Globe columnist Dan McGowan, a longtime Rhode Island journalist, will appear on th…
on Mon, 6PM
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Prosecutors in the Karen Read murder trial are asking that a judge order Boston magazine to turn over unredacted audio recordings, notes and other materials stemming from a story about the case wri…
on Sat, 3PM
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We need a renewal of civic life — and that has to start by supporting local journalism
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Following Donald Trump’s victory Tuesday night, I’ve seen calls on social media to support independent news organizations like ProPublica and The Guardian rather than traditional outlet…
on Nov 8
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Yes, Bezos congratulated Biden in 2020; plus, liberals flee from Twitter to Threads — to Bluesky?
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Amazon billionaire and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos raised eyebrows, and hackles, when he logged on to Twitter/X on Wednesday and posted a congratulatory note to Donald Trump: Big congratulatio…
on Nov 7
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It was a dark and metaphorically stormy night; plus, Northeastern students get the job done.
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I got up early this morning after a restless night to see that our fears had become reality. There is no sugar-coating this. Democracy was on the ballot, and democracy lost. The rule of law is givi…
on Nov 6
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Win or lose, Kamala Harris has been a magnificent candidate
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No matter how this apocalyptic election turns out, I think it’s important for all of us to recognize that Kamala Harris has been a magnificent candidate who ran a great campaign. If Donald Tr…
on Nov 5
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Northeastern students try to vote — and some run into obstacles
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Earlier today I asked my First Amendment students to fan out across the Northeastern campus and interview students about whether they had faced any voting obstacles. They posted their findings on I…
on Nov 5
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With Election Day upon us, some new numbers suggest that Harris has a slight advantage
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Cherry-picking the data while trying to maintain my sanity: With Election Day looming, I want to share four sets of numbers suggesting that Kamala Harris really will dispatch the Orange Menace once…
on Nov 2
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Taking advantage of Jeff Bezos’ folly, publications tout Harris endorsements to sign up new readers
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What is proving to be a debacle for The Washington Post is simultaneously turning into a boon for other news outlets. A week after Post owner Jeff Bezos killed an editorial endorsing Kamala Harris,…
on Nov 1
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Can The Washington Post differentiate itself from The New York Times?
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The Washington Post, on an upward trajectory for most of the time since Jeff Bezos bought the paper in 2013, has stalled out. At least that’s the gist of a story in The Wall Street Journal by…
on Oct 31
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The end of The Star-Ledger’s print edition marks the next step in Advance’s digital strategy
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News that Advance Local is closing its print newspapers in New Jersey is sad on one level. On another level, though, it marks the continued evolution of the chain’s digital-first strategy, wh…
on Oct 31
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What j-students think about newsroom diversity; plus, Bezos whines, and a new editor at the Monitor
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I asked my media ethics students today to think about diversity in newsrooms — what it is, why it matters and how news organizations can foster it at a time when there’s not a whole lot of hi…
on Oct 29
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The fallout from the Post’s gutless decision; plus, my 2018 book portrayed a very different Bezos
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The fallout over Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos’ decision to kill his paper’s endorsement of Kamala Harris has been widespread and withering, according to Hadas Gold and Brian Stelter…
on Oct 26
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Jeff Bezos, too, shows Trump ‘anticipatory obedience’; plus, death for sale, and Billy Penn at 10
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An increasing number of news organizations are becoming fearful in the face of a rising tide of fascism. The Washington Post today joined the Los Angeles Times in deciding not to endorse in the pre…
on Oct 25
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More fallout from the LA Times; plus, the Sun shines in Colorado, and news deserts spread
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News that the Los Angeles Times would not endorse a candidate for president has quickly ballooned into yet another crisis for Patrick Soon-Shiong, the paper’s feckless and irresponsible owner…
on Oct 24
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I met Nick Daniloff for the first time in either the late 1980s or ’90s. I can’t remember the circumstances exactly, but it was a Northeastern University event, and I recall that it was at th…
on Oct 22
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Big changes at GBH: ‘Morning Edition’ co-hosts move to new roles, and ‘Basic Black’ will return
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Paris Alston and Jeremy Siegel, the co-hosts of “Morning Edition” on GBH Radio (89.7 FM), are transitioning to new roles, with Alston taking over a revived “Basic Black” and…
on Oct 21
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With Jill Stein looming over Democratic hopes once again, a look back at our 2002 encounter
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Jill Stein is back, running for president for the third consecutive election — and this time members of her own family don’t even want her to run, according to a profile (gift link) by Matt F…
on Oct 21
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Northeastern news project wins $100k grant; plus, more on the Herald, and AI hell in Melrose
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We have some exciting news about one of our sister projects at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism. The Scope, a professionally edited digital publication that covers “storie…
on Oct 17
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The Herald’s print numbers keep dropping while digital holds steady; plus, media notes
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Paid print circulation continues to fall at the city’s second daily newspaper, the Boston Herald, while paid digital subscriptions are essentially unchanged over the past year. That informati…
on Oct 17
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Paid circulation growth at The Boston Globe has leveled off, as a modest increase in digital subscriptions has barely been enough to offset the continued deterioration of its print business. That&#…
on Oct 10
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A news outlet in Haverhill, Mass., pushes its newsletter to fight algorithmic Facebook censorship
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Facebook’s brain-dead algorithm is censoring important public-safety information, reports WHAV in Haverhill, Massachusetts. WHAV is a nonprofit news organization with a low-power/online radi…
on Oct 10
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Fossil fuel interests are working to kill solar in one Ohio county. The hometown paper is helping.
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Today I’m doing something unusual — reposting a long investigative article that was originally published in ProPublica about ways that Metric Media, the notorious “pink slime” pub…
on Oct 9
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Less news, more happy talk: Why CBS News’ reprimand of Tony Dokoupil is so ridiculous
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Count me among those who are perplexed as to why CBS News morning anchor Tony Dokoupil has been reprimanded by his bosses for the way he conducted himself in an interview with the journalist and au…
on Oct 9
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Radio, text-only websites and dropped paywalls: How local news is helping Helene’s survivors
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Here’s some good advice to prepare for a natural disaster: Get yourself a radio, preferably one that you can crank up by hand. I’m looking at a few on Google, and I see a some models th…
on Oct 8
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The October Surprise, 44 years on; plus, extremism at home, and more on sponsored content
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The October Surprise. These days the phrase is often used to describe fears that a political campaign will drop some sort of bombshell in the final weeks before Election Day. Then-FBI Director Jame…
on Oct 5
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The Committee to Protect Journalists warns that violence against the press is an ongoing crisis
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A special report by the Committee to Protect Journalists warns that the anti-media animus that characterized the Trump presidency has continued unabated, and that it will continue to pose an ongoin…
on Oct 3
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There was a key moment in last night’s vice presidential debate between Democratic candidate Tim Walz and Republican JD Vance, and I’ll get to it. But first I want to deal with the fact…
on Oct 2
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A conversation with ChatGPT, given a voice by Siri, shows AI’s promise and limitations
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Mike Blinder, publisher of the trade journal Editor & Publisher and the host of its vodcast, “E&P Reports,” tried something unusual recently. He hooked up ChatGPT to Siri and co…
on Oct 2
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GBH News unveils a four-person equity and justice reporting network
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GBH News, the local news division of public media powerhouse GBH, has unveiled a new, four-person equity and justice reporting network. Here’s the press release. GBH News has launched its new…
on Oct 1
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CommonWealth Beacon names Laura Colarusso as its new editor
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There’s some exciting news to report out of CommonWealth Beacon today. Laura Colarusso, currently the editor of Nieman Reports, will be the new editor of CWB, succeeding Bruce Mohl, who’…
on Sep 30
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New York City to boost student journalists; plus, listening to voters, and a hacking update
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Now here’s a great idea. In New York City, a public-private partnership is spending $3 million to boost journalism in the city’s high schools. The program, called Journalism for All, ai…
on Sep 30
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The Portland Press Herald and its owner get enmeshed in a controversy over sponsored content
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News publishers like sponsored content for a variety of reasons. In a sea of nearly worthless programmatic ads, sponsored content — also known as native advertising — commands a premium price. The …
on Sep 27
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David Folkenflik stands up for ethics; plus, journalism flunks the stress test, and media notes
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One of my Sunday night rituals is to read the Semafor media newsletter overseen by Ben Smith — something I also used to do when he was writing his media column for The New York Times. Smith is a ta…
on Sep 26
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Arc was supposed to be a key to The Washington Post’s future. It became a problem instead.
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Several months ago, Brian Stelter wrote an article (gift link) for The Atlantic exploring how The Washington Post had lost its way. During the Trump years, the Post thrived under the ownership of A…
on Sep 25
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A Muzzle Award to Mass. POST for spurning data needed to track police misconduct
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In 2020, Massachusetts took what was billed as a major step forward in holding police officers accountable. Following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the state created the Massach…
on Sep 24
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Of elephants, circuses and the Olivia Nuzzi-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. imbroglio
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In the weeks after President Biden’s disastrous performance in the June 27 presidential debate, there were several crucial data points. His interviews with George Stephanopoulos and Lester Ho…
on Sep 23
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Why news outlets are rethinking the way they cover police and crime
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Aidan Ryan of The Boston Globe has an interesting story exploring why many startup local news organizations are taking a different approach to how they cover police news. Rather than running the po…
on Sep 21
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Why asking voters who they think will win might be the smarter question
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I freely confess to paying more attention to polls than I should. Multiple times a day I check in with FiveThirtyEight, still going strong under the auspices of ABC News despite founder Nate Silver…
on Sep 20
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Northeastern students weigh in on stories that ought to be getting more coverage
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When you page through the national and international news, it can sometimes seem like there is nothing going on except the presidential election campaign and the wars in Gaza (as well as the broade…
on Sep 19
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All news is local: The Dorchester Reporter tears into Trump’s and Vance’s racist attacks
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The Dorchester Reporter has published an impassioned editorial about Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s racist, fact-free attacks on the Haitian community. The Reporter is one of Boston̵…
on Sep 18
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Amid political violence and threats of violence, the NH Libertarians target Harris
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No sooner had I uploaded a post about Donald Trump, JD Vance and whether their promotion of lies about pet-eating immigrants amounted to incitement than we were treated to an example of something c…
on Sep 16
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Trump and Vance are inciting threats and possible violence. Here’s why they’ll get away with it.
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Over the past week, former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, have been inciting threats and possible violence against the Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, by a…
on Sep 16
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Trump’s threat to ABC shows that Nixon’s still the one; plus, media notes
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Something that Donald Trump said after his disastrous debate with Kamala Harris served to confirm my Richard Nixon Unified Field Theory of Everything. The morning after the debate, Trump called in …
on Sep 14
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If the LA Times’ owner had stepped up, the LA Local News Initiative might not be needed
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The American Journalism Project announced this week that it’s raising $15 million to cover underserved communities in Los Angeles. The news was broken Tuesday by Axios media reporter Sara Fis…
on Sep 12
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Talking about the media with ‘SouthCoast Matters’
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About once a year I drive down to Taunton in order to appear on “SouthCoast Matters,” a public affairs program hosted by Paul Letendre, to talk about a variety of media issues. This yea…
on Sep 11
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Kamala Harris may have turned in the best performance in the history of national TV debates
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After Tuesday night’s debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, I was trying to think of a better performance than Harris’. The proper superlative w…
on Sep 11
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NH Supreme Court throws out libel suit brought by man accused of espousing white supermacism
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The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled that an op-ed piece published in the New Hampshire Union Leader claiming that a resident of Hanover had espoused “white supremacist ideology” w…
on Sep 10