Spare Change News
The compromises reporters make
By adamg - 7/4/10 - 8:53 amSamuel J. Scott reads up on the Gen. McChrystal saga and recalls a tough decision he had to make when he was editor of Spare Change News and a reporter got a scoop that could jeopardize a major source of the paper's everyday stories.
Has Whitey Bulger been reduced to scamming Spare Change readers?
By adamg - 3/6/09 - 4:32 pmHere's a photo of the guy who's been scamming sympathetic Red Line riders by giving them a copy of the Metro or the Dig or God knows what instead of Spare Change News when they hand over a dollar (or more, since he begs for additional funds).
Return of the Spare Change dupers
By adamg - 2/27/09 - 8:55 amSarah reports her boyfriend was a victim of a Spare Change duper at the Davis Square T stop yesterday: He gave the guy a dollar (and another dollar because, well, he was also panhandling) and, instead of Spare Change News, the guy gave him some other, free, paper.
Spare Change News to print a Mohammed cartoon
By adamg - 2/15/06 - 11:05 pmThe distributed-by-homeless paper will print one of the Danish cartoons in this week's issue:
In defense of free speech and accurate eeporting, Spare Change News will publish one of the controversial Mohammed cartoons tomorrow morning with an accompanying editorial defending our decision and
criticizing The Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Boston Phoenix for not printing the images.The cartoon and editorial will appear on the op-ed page. A teaser with the controversial cartoon will be above the banner on Page 1. The op-ed page content shows the Mohammed cartoon along with an image from the destruction caused by the recent rioting in the Middle East with a caption stating: "What is more offensive?"
