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By adamg - 6/5/07 - 9:47 am

EnuhCork: wonders:

Is it just me or have the Boston Now paper distributors become more aggressive over the past few weeks? It's getting to the point where papers are being forced in front of me and I need to swat them away to get by. ...

Non-disclosure disclosure: I'm no longer writing a weekly column for the Globe, so I don't have to post a disclosure anymore when I write about competing newspapers.

By adamg - 5/24/07 - 9:18 am

BostonNow? More like BostonYesterday. Today's paper has not a word about last night's Dorchester shootout in which both a cop and a suspect got shot. Metro, at least, managed to get three paragraphs and a photo on the front page.

More headline goodness: Spatch analyzes the front pages today of all four of Boston's dailies.

My standard newspaper disclosure.

By adamg - 5/18/07 - 2:36 pm

Dan Kennedy attended a forum at the BPL last night on "restoring trust in the media" and captures an interesting exchange between John Wilpers of BostonNow and Ellen Hume, director of the Center on Media and Society at UMass Boston:

By adamg - 5/17/07 - 3:52 pm

Hey, gang, they're hiring a copy editor.

Via Sean McCarthy, who, at no charge, copy edits the mistakes in the ad.

I've done enough copy editing to last me a lifetime, thank you very much.

Earlier:
Bosotn Now: The Paper Of Rceord.

By adamg - 5/17/07 - 11:39 am

Susan Kaup of Exploit Boston is moving to BostonNow to help manage the paper's community efforts.

Lisa Williams, who helped put Watertown on the online map and who has been doing some consulting at boston.com, reports she'll have some big news to report next week at a publisher's confab in Miami:

... It's bigger than HAM! Bigger than CHEESE! Bigger than HAM AND CHEESE COMBINED! AND TOASTED! ...

By adamg - 5/15/07 - 5:47 pm

You remember Mark Godes, a.k.a. Bobby Simpson, the 12-year-old kid who offered advice back in the day for the Herald-American, then grew up and found nobody wanted to pay for advice from a dude (but just in case, read Alex Beam on him from a couple years back). Sure, boston.com hired him, but that only lasted two months (maybe it was something about the last post's topic?).

By adamg - 5/14/07 - 12:25 pm

And don't much truck with newspapers that try to skimp on the copy editing and fact checking, so don't be surprised if they start a discussion with a title like Bosotn Now: The Paper Of Rceord.

It would be a mistake for me to omit my newspaper disclosure.

By adamg - 5/11/07 - 9:20 am

Single Girl in the City is not amused by BostonNow hawkers:

... They're more annoying than if the Spare Change guy WAS one of the Metro hawkers. ...

Meanwhile, Dan Kennedy wishes the paper would hire a copy editor.

Hmm, there's a thought: I could stand outside Park Street in the morning hawking the site: HUB HEAH! GET YER HUUUUUUUUUUB HEAH!

By adamg - 4/27/07 - 3:00 pm

Not yet a full-fledged cat fight because one of the parties has yet to say anything publicly. Anyway, file this under "how quickly they forget." And file this, by the same reporter, under "Really, he should know better."

And file this under "disclosure."

By adamg - 4/20/07 - 9:37 pm

If you're going to use somebody else's content verbatim, you really need to get their permission. Seems the paper reprinted entire chunks of Bostonist yesterday without first asking if it could. Kind of ironic given that the purloined posts are the first actual blog content to show up in what was supposed to be a revolutionary marriage of old and new media.

Distinctly new-media Boing Boing has the scoop, along with an apology from editor Jon Wilpers.

By adamg - 4/18/07 - 9:43 am

Mike Mennonno wonders if the paper can overcome the "trifle" factor - the fact that Bostonians are trained to see free papers as something good only for a quick read on the T - and if it can dial down its serialized novelette:

... "One cannot, he thinks, separate ice from the heat that thaws it," eh? That's some heavy shit for a morning commute, dude.

By adamg - 4/5/07 - 10:51 pm

Mike Mennonno requests that all reporters within 500 miles of Boston stop calling him a disgruntled blogger just because he raised questions about bloggy BostonNOW. While he still doubts there's enough good daily blogging to fill a newspaper, he says he is quite gruntled with the paper's editor and adds:

By adamg - 3/30/07 - 3:59 pm

Russel Pergamint and John Wilpers have big plans for their upcoming blog-enriched BostonNOW paper (which launches April 17) - they hope to use it as a template to expand to another eight to ten cities within four years.

By adamg - 3/27/07 - 8:42 pm

Is this a cautionary tale about the impending blogariffic BostonNOW or a bit of a reach from a competing media outlet? I can't tell.

Psst, wanna see my disclosure?

By adamg - 3/12/07 - 10:54 pm

Only it seemed to feature at most three actual bloggers. In any case, Mike Mennonno went to BostonNOW's event the other day and files a pretty comprehensive report and analysis - in which he questions whether the whole blogger/media thing will work as print editors want it to work, in part because the paper won't use any content from sites that are "biased," which might seem to rule out pretty much every blog.

By adamg - 3/1/07 - 12:38 pm

Looks like Russel Pergamint's BostonNOW won't simply be another Metro hawked by scary people. It'll be blogarific. The impending paper is holding a blogger summit on Saturday, March 10 to convince local bloggers to let the paper use their content for free, promising in exchange that their words will be seen by tens of thousands of readers in print and untold thousands of people on the Web.

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