Boston Metro
Lost somewhere on Route 84
By JohnAKeith - 10/30/11 - 1:22 amBoston Metro (@metrobos) reporter Steve Annear (@steveannear) tweeted at around 1:00pm this afternoon:
This tops my list of crazy decisions. And I've made many. On a doubledecker bus in the storm en route to #Nyc and the tires are spinning.
This was his update, at 1:31am:
Have now officially been on a bus to #nyc from #boston for 12.5 hours with no food or water and an hour on the snowy roads to go.
Cannibalism will be forgiven.
Metro discovers world is full of germs
By adamg - 7/27/11 - 10:26 amMetro doing its part to end tragic waste of white crayons
By adamg - 7/11/11 - 9:10 am
TootnScoot reports today's Metro has a reversi-crossword.
Metro does its best to dispute study on our regional brainpower
By adamg - 10/26/10 - 1:04 pmSee if you can figure out the disconnect between the front-page headline and two of the three bullet points immediately below it:
Via alert Metro reader Stephanie, who notes the actual survey says we are brainiacs towering over mental midgets in places like New York.
Think you can write better than the Metro?
By adamg - 2/27/10 - 12:56 pmThe Metro is hiring a reporter to report for the "18-34 city-centric upwardly mobile men and women" who read the paper:
... This is not an entry level job. Candidates should have a minimum of 2 years experience of news reporting at a daily newspaper and should have sources in Boston or the proven ability to develop them quickly. Because of the nature of Metro, specialized beat work will not be the norm. The ability to cover a wide range of subjects is crucial, while managing time properly to allow for both daily coverage and longer-term feature projects. ...
Gender bending at Boston Metro
By adamg - 2/4/10 - 9:20 amAh, what would we do without the Metro? Yesterday, they alerted West Roxbury to the new French pizzerie on Centre Street near LaGrange Street: Denois. Today, Dan Seitz reports they accompanied a short item about Tim Murray with a photo of Therese Murray.
Smash the church/state paradigm!
By adamg - 1/27/10 - 7:37 pmDoes Boston Metro know about Boston MetroGuide, which is seeking to hire writers who will get paid only if they also sell ads to go with their "articles"?
... This is your chance to be the official blogger/commentator/voice of Boston on a new Metro Guide Website that is quickly growing in popularity. ...
The newspaper that thinks it's TMZ.com
By adamg - 12/2/09 - 9:48 amThat would, of course, be the Metro, which today determined that Tiger Woods's little mishap was the day's top news, which set off Marshall T. Spriggs:
... Since you seem to be rapidly becoming a Boston specific version of the TMZ website that you reference in your lead article, the only question left to me is whether I should even bother to pick up the Metro. ...
Metro: Service journalism at its finest
By adamg - 10/30/09 - 10:25 amBoston's largest, most award-winningest newspaper has a handy tip for Beacon Hill parents on Halloween: "Wash any loose rat droppings from your kid's candy before ingesting."
Also alerts us that lots of college students live on Mission Hill and that drug users have been known to frequent Central Square.
Who actually voted the Metro 'Best Newspaper of the Year'?
By adamg - 9/17/09 - 4:12 pmThe Weekly Dig reveals: Executives at agencies that buy ads in newspapers, who vote on things such as how eagerly a given newspaper bends over backwards for advertisers.
