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By adamg - 3/9/24 - 11:52 am

Fitzgerald wrote for the Herald for 40 years, starting in sports and later shifting to opinion.

By adamg - 3/7/24 - 5:41 pm

CommonWealth Beacon reports on the situation at "Boston's NPR news station."

By adamg - 2/17/24 - 11:20 am

Dan Kennedy reports that long-time Globe readers are being notified they're owed up to $158.03 as their share of a settlement of a lawsuit over the Globe's online privacy practices. Read more.

By adamg - 2/15/24 - 1:26 pm

Well compensated Massachusetts executives take note: "Wages" are for working stiffs and don't include any promised share of company profits, so you can't can't get triple damages if you don't get that share and then get fired and sue. Read more

By adamg - 2/4/24 - 1:11 pm

Jason Pramas explains why he's shutting down Somerville Wire (in part because he's now working on a statewide news source), but says Somerville is no longer in danger of becoming the news desert he once thought, because the city now has a growing list of news sources, including Cambridge Day and even a newspaper from across the river, which has a "Camberville" newsletter.

By adamg - 1/26/24 - 11:25 am

Dan Kennedy reports that Yawu Miller and Claudio Martinez are planning the Greater Boston News Bureau "with the aim of supporting local news outlets that serve communities of color in and around Boston." Read more.

By adamg - 1/7/24 - 6:12 pm
Rob Way with a Dunk's iced coffee

Channel 7's Rob Way, so tired he had to recline on an impromptu snow bench, was still able to bring us the scoop that Methuen got two Dunk's iced coffees worth of snow today.

By adamg - 12/19/23 - 11:10 am

Dan Kennedy reports the station will use a $750,000 grant from the Barr Foundation to cover "racial and socioeconomic equity issues in Greater Boston and beyond." The foundation recently gave the Globe a similar grant for similar coverage.

By adamg - 12/5/23 - 3:25 pm

Verizon sent out its annual warning to subscribers that it's going to blank out a local TV station on FiOS because of a licensing spat with its owner. This year, Verizon is warning Ed Harding fans who subscribe to FiOS they will have to go elsewhere to watch the news if it can't reach agreement with WCVB owner Hearst by the end of Friday on how much it has to pay to carry Hearst TV stations. Read more.

By adamg - 11/13/23 - 12:53 pm

CommonWealth Beacon digs up new info on the saga of the nine MBTA officials the Globe wrote lived well out of the T district when, in fact, only six of them did: The Globe had to print corrections and fired the reporter, whom state and MBTA flacks knew was working on the story and knew the names of the officials yet refused to answer the reporter's calls for comment: Read more.

By adamg - 11/3/23 - 11:53 pm
Legassa

A federal jury in Boston today convicted a one-time NESN vice-president of defrauding the network out of $575,000 by routing money meant to pay an online consultant to a fake company he controlled.
Read more.

By adamg - 11/3/23 - 9:58 am
WBZ studio building on Soldiers Field Road covered in red paint

Overnight, somebody covered the WBZ offices at 1170 Soldiers Field Rd. in Allston with blood-red paint and took the time to scrawl "Free Palestine" at one end. Monica captured the scene. Read more.

By adamg - 11/1/23 - 12:53 pm

CommonWealth is now CommonWealth Beacon:

We are adding staff reporters, hiring people for the first time who can hopefully help us grow our readership and our revenues, and raising our sights. As nonprofit local news sites pop up across the state, we want to get in on the action at the state level.

By adamg - 9/29/23 - 10:30 pm

Josh Brogadir at WCVB said tonight the station learned a couple weeks ago about Tim Wakefield's battle with cancer but decided not to report it until Wakefield was ready to go public, out of common human decency. Curt Schilling, he continued, has no such decency.

This just adds to the list of despicable acts since he finished playing baseball.

By adamg - 9/6/23 - 2:28 pm

Dan Kennedy gets the scoop: The Globe is planning to bolster its coverage of Boston suburbs in general, with two editors and four reporters - and with one of those editors and reporters assigned specifically to what the honchos call "Cambridge and Somerville - Camberville if you will." Or Cambridge Day turf.

By adamg - 8/30/23 - 10:42 am

The Globe yesterday ran this headline: Self-driving cars are booming in San Francisco. Is it really a loss for Boston?

Betteridge's Law holds: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word No." Read more.

By adamg - 8/24/23 - 9:30 am

A Middlesex Superior Court judge has ruled that Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria has such a strong likelihood of winning a libel suit against a local newspaper that he is freezing property belonging to one of the paper's owners and its editor in anticipation of as much of $850,000 in damages. Read more.

By adamg - 8/19/23 - 9:21 pm
Photo in the Globe of a training fire-department diver blending with a photo of a man skipping rope

Gary C. reports he was reading the paper version of the Globe today with some bright light in the background - making a photo on one page of a fire-department diver training in a Stoneham pond merge serendipitously with a photo on the page he was looking at of a man skipping rope in Boston.

By adamg - 8/17/23 - 5:15 pm

Jason Pranas, who watched the pandemic take down the Weekly Dig, today announced the start of a new, and non-profit statewide news site: HorizonMass: "A new general interest, statewide, digital news publication with the tagline 'independent student-driven reporting in the public interest.' "

Besides its Dig roots, the site also has its origins in the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, which Pranas and Chris Faraone founded.

By adamg - 6/30/23 - 11:02 am

Vinay Mehra, who left as president of Boston Globe Media Partners in 2020 after just three years in the job, yesterday sued the company over the more than $12 million in lost wages, commissions and severance he claims he is owed under a contract he charges John and Linda Henry's company decided not to honor - times three, under the state wage act. Read more.

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