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By adamg - 10/19/20 - 3:30 pm
WBZ antenna

WBZ-AM antenna in its glory days, well, last December.

Earlier this month, WBZ tore down the antenna that had towered over Soldiers Field Road in Allston since its construction in 1950. Read more.

By adamg - 9/26/20 - 12:06 pm

Dan Kennedy reports that Nestor Ramos, who just recently got on the Globe masthead, when he was named senior assistant managing editor for local news, is leaving to become an assistant editor at the Times metro desk. Kennedy quotes a memo from Globe Editor Brian McGrory, who says the Times grabbing Globies is "getting old," here we thought the Globe was the Washington Post farm team.

By adamg - 9/24/20 - 9:47 am
NorthEndWaterfront.com logo

Matt Conti reports he will be winding down his work on NorthEndWaterfront.com and he and his staff will stop posting new items altogether in January.

Read more.

By adamg - 9/23/20 - 11:48 am
Final copy of the Jewish Advocate

The Jewish Advocate announced this week that its issue this week will be its last in print. Read more.

By adamg - 9/9/20 - 4:32 pm

Ghostbusters - Mass Hysteria

GBH and WBUR, which still likes its W, will team up to provide local news for an NPR podcast about, well, local news. Read more.

By adamg - 8/31/20 - 4:38 pm

The service magazine is out with a list of "the best public high schools in Boston," which includes such notable Hub schools as Chelmsford, Winchester, Dover-Sherborn, Lynn Classical and Pentucket Regional.

By adamg - 8/31/20 - 2:20 pm

The Worcester Telegram is out with its explanation for how it came to run a full-page ad by IBEW Local 103 yesterday that urged "Worchester" residents to vote for Joe Kennedy III: Read more.

By adamg - 8/31/20 - 1:15 pm
Just GBH now

WGBH announced today it's changing its official name from WGBH to just GBH because we live in an online world and they're just a media source in it. Read more.

By adamg - 8/29/20 - 2:27 pm
Grinning threat maker

Threat maker seemed to enjoy himself as "Macho Man" played in the background.

Alex DiPrato at Channel 7 reports State and local police in New Hampshire are investigating an incident in which guy came up to him and his cameraperson outside the Orangefest in Londonderry yesterday and threatened to blow up the two "motherfuckers," maybe that night. Read more.

By adamg - 8/29/20 - 10:55 am

WBZ reports the restaurant-chatter show is returning to TV, but only with Dan Andelman, not Dave Andelman and with paid advising by former Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson on how to not just be less racist but help support minority-owned businesses.

By adamg - 8/14/20 - 9:07 pm

Dan Kennedy reports the Boston Herald has apparently moved out of its Braintree offices and is now sharing space with the Lowell Sun - in Lowell. The former Herald offices in Braintree are now being used by a religious substance-abuse organization. As at many other papers, staffers have mostly been working remotely of late anyway.

By adamg - 8/5/20 - 9:30 am

The Boston Business Journal reports the city magazine has laid off 2 of its 20 newsroom staffers and furloughed 2 others, after having tried pay cuts and two weeks of unpaid leave - on top of getting one of those federal PPP loan/grants.

By InfoLibrarian - 7/28/20 - 7:27 pm

According to the NYT the Venice Film Festival just announced its lineup (festival runs from Sept 2-Sept 12). One of the entries is a new documentary by Frederick Wiseman called City Hall- a film about Boston City Hall. Read more.

By adamg - 7/13/20 - 11:45 pm
Yawu Miller

Update: Miller reports he was stopped outside the courthouse by cops who had never heard of his newspaper and because they thought he was photographing the nearby B-2 police station.

Yawu Miller, senior editor at the Bay State Banner, which covers Boston's black community, reports he was stopped and frisked at Roxbury District Court today: Read more.

By adamg - 7/10/20 - 11:27 am

The Globe's announced it's hired Kimberly Atkins, currently of WBUR and formerly of the Herald, for its editorial board. Read more.

By adamg - 7/2/20 - 9:34 am

CommonWealth Magazine reports the Herald yesterday laid off three reporters, two columnists and a photographer. Howie Carr still lists himself as "Columnist for @BostonHerald" on his Twitter feed, so we're assuming he wasn't one of the columnists.

By adamg - 6/17/20 - 1:41 pm
WBUR

Dan Kennedy gets the memo - also, the station is losing four of its top exec and has frozen salaries for the coming year.

By Ron Newman - 6/7/20 - 11:04 am
Globe says no magazine today

At the bottom of today's front page.

The Boston Globe announced on the front page that "the Sunday Magazine was removed from as many copies of today's Globe as possible because a cover illustration, which was printed in May, bore an unintentional but close resemblance to the way George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis." Read more.

By schneidz - 5/24/20 - 10:37 am

I just noticed that the smoke stacks in everett is one of the landmarks that scrolls past in the screensaver:

Why would they choose this over the more well known usual suspects (Custom House, Bunker Hill/Zakim bridge, Citgo sign, ...) ?

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