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Jason Pramas on HorizonMass, a news nonprofit that brings students and...
Photo courtesy of Jason Pramas On the latest What Works podcast, I talk with Jason Pramas, executive director of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and editor-in-chief of a new project...
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Paid circulation of Worcester’s daily newspaper has dropped by about 80% in...
Former headquarters of the Telegram & Gazette. Photo (cc) 2011 by Daderot. With a population just north of 200,000, Worcester is the second largest city in New England; surrounding Worcester County...
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A Muzzle for the officers who removed a teenage journalist from a GOP event
Quinn Mitchell, right, with Chris Christie and his wife, Mary Pat Christie. Photo (cc) 2023 by NHpolitico. It’s hardly a surprise that Republican officials in New Hampshire would throw a 15-year-old...
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GBH News will launch a daily arts and culture program on radio and YouTube
A lot of observers were surprised earlier this year when GBH News canceled its weekly arts and culture television show, “Open Studio,” hosted by Jared Bowen. Even more surprising was a statement from...
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Wall of tears
At North Station, posters of people kidnapped in Israel during Hamas’ terrorist attack. Leave a comment | Read comments
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Looking back to when the Springfield Republican was the best paper in New...
If you haven’t seen it yet, I urge you to read Daniel Golden’s ProPublica feature about working in Western Massachusetts at the Springfield Daily News in the early years of his career. ProPublica...
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Mainstream media, elected officials feed misinformation in Israel-Hamas war
The war between Israel and Hamas has given rise to a cornucopia of misinformation and disinformation on social media — especially with Elon Musk’s mean, shrunken version of X/Twitter doing little to...
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The latest Green Line Extension problems are an outrage
Green Line trolley at the new Tufts/Medford station. Photo (cc) 2022 by Dan Kennedy. It’s hard to describe how outrageous it is that the brand-new, $2.3 billion Green Line Extension was built with...
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Profiles in cowardice
U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan. Photo (cc) 2016 by Gage Skidmore. In case you missed the actual vote tally, Jim Jordan received 194 votes, all from Republicans, in the third and final round of public balloting...
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