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Bostonians are a resilient bunch
By adamg - 9/29/11 - 11:03 amAllen Rines reports Robin Young's segue from a Sox report on her "Here and Now" show this morning:
Well that's over, let's talk about sperm banks.
Meanwhile, what are the odds these bus ads will stay up as long as that Coraline thing on the Red Line?
Quincy court TV goes live today
By adamg - 5/2/11 - 7:22 amStarting today, WBUR is livestreaming proceedings at Quincy District Court. OpenCourt.us is an experiment in further opening the court system to the public:
Putting a live-streaming camera in a courtroom is a touchy subject. While we have a goal similar to C-SPAN to provide government transparency, the judicial branch affects the lives of ordinary citizens in a way than the legislative doesn’t. So we’ve spent the last few months working with every stakeholder who would have us, from judges, clerks, attorneys, domestic violence advocates on the local level to a high-level advisory board that meets at the Supreme Judicial Court in Boston.
We want to find the right a balance between the public's right to know and citizens' rights to a fair trial and to be able to come to the court system for protection.
Reporter tags along with cabbie for story; cabbie writes his version first
By adamg - 2/4/11 - 11:43 amThe Hack reports on the WBUR reporter who rode with him one night for a story about Boston cab drivers:
All this chatting distracted me. I found myself driving aimlessly. Other cabs had cut in front of me to pick up fares I should have stopped for. I was getting frustrated.
"What about the airport?" Adam asked. "You must get a lot of good fares from there."
Actually, I hardly ever go to the airport, other than to drop off fares from the city. The taxi pool at Logan is a black hole, a place where hundreds of cabs cram themselves into a parking lot and become trapped for hours on end. By the time you get out of there you're likely only to get some passenger going to a downtown hotels. It's not worth it.
Angry at NPR? Don't take it out on WBUR
By adamg - 10/24/10 - 1:35 pmWBUR's Andrew Phelps tweets:
WBUR is now allowing donors to specify their money not go toward NPR programming.
WBUR gets all Crossfired up in Andrea Cabral's grill
By adamg - 8/17/10 - 2:08 pmMike Ball listened to 'BUR's Deborah Becker grill Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral on Philip Markoff's suicide and thinks Becker ran amok:
Becker started out like a real journalist and quickly went tabloid on Cabral. She clearly came in with her conclusions and was not about to let truth or knowledge interfere.
WBUR wins grant to enable wireless liveblogging and reporting in Quincy courtroom
By adamg - 6/16/10 - 4:18 pmWBUR's won a $250,000 Knight Foundation grant to work with Quincy District Court to set up a way for bloggers and reporters to report on court cases as they happen - and to develop standards for other courts to use. Laura McGann interviewed 'BUR's John Davidow on the Order in the Court 2.0 project.
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it doesn't seem to have helped WGBH topple WBUR yet
By adamg - 5/22/10 - 11:42 amBoston Music Intelligencer takes a peek at the latest Arbitron numbers for WGBH (and WCRB) and WBUR.
Radio Boston goes daily on Monday
By adamg - 5/6/10 - 11:07 amWill air from 3-4 p.m. with host Meghna Chakrabarti and Adam Ragusea doing reporting. Their first week will features interviews with all five people running for governor (quick, can you name 'em?).
Radio Boston goes daily May 3
By adamg - 3/1/10 - 3:51 pmDan Kennedy gets the scoop on WBUR's plans for the newly expanded show, whose "lead host" will be 'BUR reporter and producer Meghna Chakrabarti.
