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The latest Globe reporter to leave

adamg — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:43:54 -0400

But Pulitzer winner Sacha Pfeiffer isn't going far, Adam Reilly reports: She'll become health and science reporter at WBUR.

Name a blog, win a T-shirt

adamg — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:26:23 -0400

Ken George, new media honcho at WBUR, is having a bit of trouble coming up with a name for his new blog. Come up with a good name and a This American Life T-shirt (in Chinese) is all yours.

The Barnicle crisis needs resolution

adamg — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:22:07 -0400

WBUR should either finally hire him so people can start donating to WGBH instead or they should announce they're not hiring him so people can stop getting heartburn.

Speaking of 'GBH, Emily Rooney kvetches about the lack of substance on local newscasts these days and fantasizes about marching into some local newsroom and shaking things up. Apparently, Rooney doesn't remember the days when WGBH had its own local newscast. Instead of complaining how vapid the commercial newscasts are, why not restart it? Isn't public television supposed to provide intelligent alternatives to commercial TV? Or has it all come down to Peter, Paul and Mary concerts during Pledge Week?

The Campaign to Stamp Out Mike Barnicle

adamg — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:27:52 -0400

UPDATE: Looks like the site was taken down. Oh, well. It was full of Mike Barnicle's greatest hits.

If it had a Web site, it would look like this.

I'd forgotten the Mandingo quote.

Via Amy Derjue.

Mike Barnicle's 'remarkable gift'

adamg — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:23:58 -0400

WBUR general manager to Barnicle haters: It's been 10 years, people, give it a rest. But while he tells Dan Kennedy he thinks Boston needs Barnicle, he doesn't say whether he's offering Barnicle a job on 'BUR.

Anybody have a garlic necklace?

adamg — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:50:31 -0400

Adam Reilly, back to blogging, reports on the interesting/depressing possibility that Mike Barnicle might wind up on WBUR, now run by Paul LaCamera, who worked with Barnicle at Channel 5 and who thinks Barnicle got a bum deal just because he plagiarized George Karlin 'n' stuff.

Richie from Reveah retuhns

adamg — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:18:43 -0500

David Boeri interviews local voice impressario made good Billie West on the Boston accent and asks him why Hollywood can't get it right.

Here's your chance to hear me on the radio

adamg — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:16:25 -0400

But don't cough or sneeze or you might miss me. David Boeri's Radio Boston show tonight is about violence in Boston, 9-10 p.m., 90.9 FM. Even if I weren't on it to talk about my obsession with violent crime statistics (about halfway into the show), I'd still recommend you listen - Boeri spent two weeks living on Norfolk Street in Dorchester (in an apartment with six locks on the door) and interviews both perpetrators and victims of crime. He also managed to keep me from babbling too much. The show will be repeated on Sunday at 8 p.m.

Massachusetts health-insurance blog

adamg — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:53:20 -0500

CommonHealth, by WBUR, will

track Massachusetts' attempt to cover the uninsured. The goal is to create a broad conversation about the new health care law and to cover more issues and updates than we can within the daily news cycle.

Via White Coat Notes.

Also see: Health Care for All's Healthy Blog.

Wait, wait, what's wrong with WBUR?

adamg — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:34:27 -0500

Lis Riba wonders why the last two editions of "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" have been screwed up:

... [J]ust now (at about a quarter past), there was a moment of silence and then it suddenly reverted to a program from two weeks ago. ...