Worcester Telegram
The most dangerous newspaper in America
By adamg - 5/12/09 - 9:25 pmI wanted to see if the Worcester Telegram had anything on the texting bus driver in Clinton, but both Google and Firefox told me telegram.com is an evil site that will steal into my house at night and take everything I own, or something. Firefox has a little "ignore" link on its "There be Dragons" page and when I clicked on it, I got to the Telegram site OK, except for a bright red banner at the top warning me: "Reported Attack Site!"
Google claims at least two pages on the Telegram site were attempting to launch malicious software on visitors' PCs today. That might have something to do with the notice on the Telegram home page about article comments being turned off "because of an issue with an outside vendor."
New York Times to Worcester Telegram: Don't drop dead
By adamg - 4/6/09 - 11:11 amUnlike at the Globe, the New York Times isn't telling unions at the Worcester Telegram they need to consider their imminent death, the Boston Business Journal reports. In fact, the Worcester paper seems to be doing pretty well when compared to its big-city cousins down the 'Pike, the Journal says.
Meanwhile, the Journal also reports that the Boston Foundation is holding a conclave today to try to figure out how to save the Globe.
There's plagiarism and then there's just lazy, cheap writing
By adamg - 11/27/07 - 11:18 amDan Kennedy, defends the Worcester Telegram's decision to run an "amplification" about the quote it lifted from the Herald rather than requiring the editor who wrote the editorial in question to commit seppuku:
... To be sure, the T&G should have credited the Herald. But the headline on Gonzalez's item — "Worcester Telegram Plagiarized Herald" — vastly overstates what happened. This was not plagiarism. Opinion pieces regularly recycle quotes from other news sources without credit.
No one could reasonably have believed that the T&G editorialist had interviewed Slater. The problem here was simply that the Slater quote was a pretty significant exclusive for the Herald, and it was cheap of the T&G not to acknowledge it. The paper's editors realized that and have made amends. ...
Worcester paper plagiarizes Herald; when caught, says 'yeah, so?'
By adamg - 11/26/07 - 11:00 amBoston Daily has the scoop on the Worcester Telegram ripping off a piece of the Herald's Romney/Tavares coverage; editor says, eh, he goofed, no harm, no foul, no correction.
A couple years back, a Telegram reporter lost his job for borrowing a bit more liberally from Sports Illustrated.
Globe, Worcester paper to make cuts
By adamg - 1/11/07 - 4:09 pmJesse Noyes at the Herald has the scoop (and the internal memos): 125 jobs to be eliminated at the Globe and Worcester Telegram & Gazette, including 19 newsroom staffers (17 in news and 2 in op-ed). Buyouts will be offered; boston.com staffers, however, cannot take them. Also coming: Less space for news in the Globe and outsourcing in the finance and "advertising operational" areas (so, hmm, when you call to place an ad, you'll get somebody in Bangalore?).
Dan Kennedy is not surprised:
... [T]he Globe in a few years will be mostly local, mostly online and a lot smaller than it is today. This is just another painful step toward that uncertain future.
