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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.

By adamg - 6/2/23 - 9:41 pm

WBUR is announcing what it calls "a fresh weekend programming lineup" that includes ditching a local religious service that its broadcast live for seven decades for some talkish non-religious thing out of New York City. Read more.

By adamg - 5/22/23 - 11:24 am

The Globe is betting it has a better case than the company it had a deal with to turn part of boston.com into a sports-betting hub - and has responded to the company's suit over the hub's collapse with a counter-suit of its own. Read more.

By adamg - 5/19/23 - 6:29 pm

The Boston Globe and a California man who says he was very put out by the "tracking pixel" that allegedly funneled his Globe video viewing habits to Facebook today filed a proposed settlement in which the Globe will create a fund to pay past visitors to bostonglobe.com and set aside $1 million to extend the subscriptions of digital subscribers for a week in recompense. Read more.

By adamg - 5/18/23 - 10:04 am

Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern, lists several reasons: Off-the-record conversations can be a key to significant journalism (think Deep Throat) and Woodstein, the Globe and Herald reporters probably didn't realize the depths to which Rollins was sinking and there's actually a case involving a politician who was publicly turned out after leaking, sued, and won.

By adamg - 5/17/23 - 12:35 pm

An investigation into the soon-to-be-former US Attorney for Massachusetts grew from a look at her possibly inappropriate attendance at a Democratic fundraiser to include allegations she tried to influence the election of her successor as Suffolk DA in part by planting stories that the acting DA was under federal investigation, even though he wasn't. Read more.

By adamg - 5/12/23 - 10:11 am

Dan Kennedy reports the death of James Shearer, whose Spare Change News reported on the homeless in Boston - and gave them a way to earn some money by hawking the paper.

By adamg - 5/4/23 - 10:38 am

Dan Kennedy reports that Andrea Estes now has "former reporter" on her Globe bio page and that Globe Editor Nancy Barnes has told the newsroom that she is looking at what went wrong with Estes's story about nine T managers working from hundreds of miles away when three of them were actually in Boston the whole time.

By adamg - 5/1/23 - 11:03 am

A Danish company that operates Web sites for sports betters is suing the Boston Globe's parent company, charging the two were all set to build a sports-betting hub on boston.com until the Globe decided to ditch it at the last minute for a deal with the locally headquartered DraftKings. Read more.

By adamg - 4/28/23 - 4:56 pm

Dan Kennedy reports on a correction the Globe ran today because it turns out three of the MBTA managers it said lived hundreds of miles from here all actually live in Boston - two of them so close to T headquarters in Park Square that they normally walk to work.

By adamg - 4/26/23 - 10:22 pm

Yawu Miller reflects on his career at the Banner as a way of telling us he won't be sticking around under new management. But he says he'll remain in journalism and promises "I’ll soon announce my next assignment."

By adamg - 4/20/23 - 1:35 pm

A couple days ago, longtime Cambridge Day publisher, editor and reporter Marc Levy announced he had joined up with the Cambridge Local News Matters Advisory Board on a $75,000 crowdsourcing effort to ensure the site not only stays up but expands - by hiring writers, editors and a publisher. Read more.

By adamg - 4/13/23 - 10:18 am

Dan Kennedy posts comments from Boston's other NPR news station that it won't be quitting Twitter just because the platform's owner hates NPR.

By adamg - 4/12/23 - 10:25 pm

One of Boston's NPR stations announced today it is leaving Twitter.

WBUR CEO Margaret Low writes it's because of Titter Ownerboi Elon Musk declaring NPR "state-affiliated media:" Read more.

By adamg - 3/23/23 - 10:33 am

Deadspin explains why City Councilors Ed Flynn and Ricardo Arroyo referred to "miniature alcohol bottles" rather than "nips" yesterday: On the Greg Hill Show on WEEI, Chris Curtis said one of his "top five nips" would be Asian-American sports reporter Mina Kimes. Curtis apologized, said he meant to blurt out the name of actress Mila Kunis, who has no Asian heritage.

By adamg - 3/14/23 - 6:15 pm
Steve Cooper with snacks

WHDH's Steve Cooper replenished the energy he used up while snowshoeing across the frozen, wind-swept tundra in the Fitchburg suburb of Ashby this evening.

Harvey Leonard, meanwhile, checked in from Florida: Read more.

By adamg - 3/1/23 - 10:22 am

Bay State Banner owner Mel Miller announced today he's sold the paper he's run for 57 years to a group headed by WBZ-TV video journalist Ron Mitchell and documentary filmmaker Andre Stark. Read more.

By adamg - 2/28/23 - 11:47 am

NBC Boston's Tevin Wooten tests out a new unit for measuring snow: Dunkin' Munchkins on a straw.

But will it replace the bouchard?

By adamg - 2/25/23 - 10:15 am

The Boston Globe this afternoon became the latest media outlet to annnounce it's dropping Dilbert, now that its author has fully emerged as the racist many people already knew he was. Read more.

By adamg - 2/23/23 - 9:54 am

One of the nation's most competitive broadcast-news markets - where else will you find dueling NPR newsrooms? - will soon get a new competitor: The Globe announced today it's staring a daily half-hour newscast this spring with NESN that will cover both news and sports. Read more.

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