BOSTON — When I was an editorial assistant at the Boston Globe while in college in the summer and fall of 2000, the newspaper went through a major redesign. The “Metro” section was renamed “City & Region” (to improve branding in suburban areas). The newsprint, font, and type size were changed (to make the print […]
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Improving Journalism Worldwide Despite Political Bias
August 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Culture, Education, Journalism, Marketing, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, The Boston Globe
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Future of Journalism
March 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Boston, Britain, Business, Journalism, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, The Boston Globe
BOSTON — Dan Kennedy, writing in the Guardian, argues that the future of journalism is local: …large national and international news organisations exist in a different universe from the grassroots, where journalism is being reinvented. Just as technology has made competitors out of CNN and USA Today, so, too has it enabled others to make […]
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One to Watch
March 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Baseball, Feminism, Japan, Red Sox, Sports, The Boston Globe
Baseball hasn’t had much room for women. That may soon change, however – if only a little, as the Boston Globe reports on a female knuckleballer from Japan. The knuckleball not needing speed but relying rather on unpredictability, I really think this girl has a chance. Maybe she’ll replace Wake when he retires? Continue reading
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The Death of Food
February 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, Europe, Food, Global Warming, Globalization, The Boston Globe
French traditional cheeses dying out? Say it ain’t so! Still another victim of globalization. Don’t get me wrong: globalization has its perks, and I’m not going to be rioting at G8 or WTO conferences anytime in the foreseeable future, but Big Government, Big Ag, and supermarkets are killing small farms and diversity of palate. The old […]
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West Bank Settlements
June 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Boston, Civil Liberties, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Media, Palestine, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Boston Globe, The Middle East, War on Terror
A reader sent me this link to a Boston Globe photo essay on Israeli settlements in the disputed West Bank. The two pictures I have posted above are the most moving. The first is a group of Israelis in the settlement of Bat Ayin reacting to the news that an axe-wielding Palestinian militant went on […]
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Non-Profit Newspapers
February 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Economics, Education, Journalism, Law, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Politics, Spare Change News, The Boston Globe
David Swensen and Michael Schmidt are calling for major newspapers to turn into non-profit organizations: Today, we are dangerously close to having a government without newspapers. American newspapers shoulder the burden of considerable indebtedness with little cash on hand, as their profit margins have diminished or disappeared. Readers turn increasingly to the Internet for information […]
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The Value of an Internship
August 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Boston, Business, Education, Globalization, Journalism, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Spare Change News, The Boston Globe
Kay M. Hymowitz writes in The Wall Street Journal that internships prevent students from gaining valuable life experience: This means that internships are largely for rich kids–and therein lies another problem. The menial summer job gave many kids their first paycheck and the feeling of independence that came with it. It was also inherently democratic. For […]
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Vandalism by Editing
July 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Baseball, Blogosphere, Boston, Culture, Education, Journalism, Language, Massachusetts, Media, Personal, Sports, The Boston Globe
I was fired from my first job in journalism. It was 1998, and I was a senior in high school who had worked for several months as a sport agate clerk for the Belleville News-Democrat in southern Illinois. You know the Scoreboard page in the Sports section that’s full of game schedules and box scores? […]
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