» Oopsies: Herald acknowledges weekend shooting had nothing to do with JP Puerto Rican festival
28/07/10 16:23 from Universal Hub - Media
The Herald is apologizing for writing Puerto Rican parade marred by shooting when the Sunday shooting took place a mile away from the parade through JP. Ed. note: The Herald has changed the story, but you can still see the original headlin..
» 2010 Magazine of the Year Winners To Be Made Public July 29
26/07/10 17:30 from ASBPE Boston Blog
Magazine staffers who attended the Boston chapter Azbee Awards banquet last week learned who the two ASBPE 2010 Magazine of the Year award winners are. Everyone else will find out when the winners are announced on the ASBPE web site on July..
» Changes at the Globe
26/07/10 13:38 from Messenger Blog
Boston Globe investigative reporter and former City Hall bureau chief Donovan Slack is heading to the paper\'s Washington, D.C. bureau. Slack replaces Susan Milligan , who is leaving the paper for a fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School ..
» Globe running out of ideas on how to beat the heat?
24/07/10 13:29 from Universal Hub - Media
As the Outraged Liberal notes , one of the Globe's suggestions for beating the heat today is to go to Wulf's Seafood in Brookline and stand there watching the owner chop up fish.
» Herald loses editor to New York
20/07/10 14:31 from Universal Hub - Media
Kevin Convey to take over at New York Daily News . Convey replaced another editor who fled to New York ; started with the Herald back in 1981 as a business writer.
» BANNED AND BACKASSWARDS
20/07/10 12:50 from Weekly Dig - Media Farm
BRAWLY LITTLE COMEDIENNE Kathy Griffin , who knows a thing or two about selling herself, called Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown 's daughters prostitutes on her show, My Life on the D-List . The joke probably referenced Brown's Jan..
» Former Globe columnist joins Boston Magazine
20/07/10 12:33 from Messenger Blog
Eileen McNamara , a former columnist for the Boston Globe , plans to write a monthly column for Boston Magazine , MediaBiz has learned. McNamara\'s monthly column debuts in the upcoming Best of Bosto n issue, which hits newsstands July 27. ..
» Remember when local news was actually local?
20/07/10 07:59 from Universal Hub - Media
John Carroll reports that three of the stories on WCVB's news at 11 last night actually had absolutely nothing to do with Boston, including one story on a dispute over a billboard \"deep in the heart of the Bible Belt.\" The \"local live..
» Going to housing extremes in today's Globe
18/07/10 06:36 from Universal Hub - Media
From a feature on a 736-square-foot house in Dedham to a magazine piece on McMansions, looks like the Globe has all the bases covered today. John Keith, however, wonders what the big deal is with a 736-square-foot home, noting: That would ..
» B2B Magazine of the Year To Be Honored at Boston Ceremony
16/07/10 10:22 from ASBPE Boston Blog
One of this year’s Magazines of the Year is from the Boston chapter. The name of the winning publication will not be announced until the Boston Azbee Awards banquet on Thursday, July 22. ASBPE gives out two Magazine of the Year awards each ..
» Morrissey Boulevard's prince of darkness types a funny
16/07/10 09:46 from Universal Hub - Media
Shank writes : I hate to be negative (really)...
» Arroyo: Rightwing media out to get me
15/07/10 16:23 from Universal Hub - Media
The not-yet-one-term at-large city councilor is already fundraising for next year's election, with a little help from the Herald. In a fundraising e-mail today, the Arroyo campaign dourly warns: ... Now he is under attack from the rig..
» Will Patch have every Boston neighborhood covered before boston.com does even one Your Town site in its own city?
14/07/10 22:53 from Universal Hub - Media
The AOL hypermicrominisuperlocal effort is opening up sites for Jamaica Plain and the South End.
» Another Harding to New England
13/07/10 17:18 from Boston TV News: \"The Scoop\"
Another member of the Harding family will soon be seen across New England airwaves. According to his public Facebook account , Adam Harding will join WMUR-TV as a reporter on August 11. Adam, who is the son of WCVB-TV anchorman Ed Harding,..
» RINGING ENDORSEMENT
13/07/10 13:27 from Weekly Dig - Media Farm
THERE ARE FEW things less appetizing than a Boston Herald employee, and yet the red-blooded Republicans of the cultural wasteland to our north are combining hacks and hamburgers in an all-American, $50 per plate fundraiser for New Hampshir..
» Hey, kids, let's go to Ireland!
13/07/10 09:57 from Universal Hub - Media
Back in the day, newspapers had employees who would check for \"adjacencies\" like this, because they knew the advertisers would refuse to pay for their ads. Looks like Pat Purcell owes Aer Lingus a do-over. Tip o' the scally cap to the..
» Holy radio station, Batman
12/07/10 21:05 from Universal Hub - Media
New England Radio Watch reports that business station WBIX (1060 AM) is being sold to Holy Family Communications, a Catholic radio outfit based in Buffalo, NY. Price: $1 million plus a $500,000 \"donation\" that is, of course, tax deductible..
» Tran Hired Full Time
12/07/10 19:52 from Boston TV News: \"The Scoop\"
After freelancing at WHDH-TV for the past few months , Susan Tran has been hired as a full time reporter at WHDH. In an internal memo to news staffers, WHDH news director Linda Miele said, “Susan’s brought her high-energy to our show..
» Could somebody explain to the Herald that Roslindale is part of Boston?
09/07/10 10:25 from Universal Hub - Media
The Herald reports today that Geoffrey's, which started out in the Back Bay and South End and then moved to Roslindale, is planning a second outlet, back in the Back Bay. Or as the Herald proclaims: Geoffrey's Cafe preps for retu..
» Farewell, John Henning
09/07/10 08:12 from Chris Daly\'s Blog
By Chris Daly Today comes news of the death of one of the greats in Boston television news: John Henning. In a medium that often cares more about the television than about the news, Henning stood out as a dead-serious reporter. He cared ab..
» Boston Fixture Dies
08/07/10 11:21 from Boston TV News: \"The Scoop\"
John Henning, a fixture in Boston television for four decades, passed away Wednesday night at age 73. Henning worked both as a reporter and as a political analyst for several Boston television stations, including WBZ, WCVB, and WNAC. He st..
» Boston mourns TV news icon John Henning
08/07/10 10:22 from Messenger Blog
The death of legendary Boston political reporter John Henning has prompted an outpouring of support from politicians, colleagues, friends and others. I\'ll post them here throughout the day. Gov. Deval Patrick: “John Henning was a con..
» TV reporter John Henning dies
08/07/10 07:49 from Universal Hub - Media
Channel 4 reports Henning died last night after a long illness. Henning covered every statewide election in Massachusetts since 1962, and every Boston election since 1963. He won numerous awards for his reporting on the Boston gangland war..
» PUB ... LICIY!
07/07/10 14:05 from Weekly Dig - Media Farm
THE STILL-EXISTENT AOL corporation (suggested motto: \"providing internet services to geriatrics nationwide!\") decided to bring citizen journalism (stories on ... a popular picnic! And, a baking class for children!) to the internet , with P..
» The compromises reporters make
04/07/10 08:53 from Universal Hub - Media
Samuel 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.