Steve Bailey

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What good can the blues do?

Pam Baker and the SGs help you drown your sorrows
You can’t ask too much of the blues. Like the raw emotion they’ve become synonymous with, the blues are not cerebral. They are not progressive or revelatory.
By SAM PFEIFLE | September 17, 2008

Communication breakdown

How did Deval Patrick's greatest strength become a dangerous weakness?
You campaign in poetry, Mario Cuomo famously claimed, but you govern in prose. Don’t buy the dichotomy.
By ADAM REILLY | April 24, 2008

The player

Trying to find some meaning in ace biz-boy columnist Steve Bailey’s move to London
The exit of Boston Globe business columnist Steve Bailey this past week to take a post in London as a general-interest news editor with Bloomberg signifies the exhaustion of a tradition.
By PETER KADZIS | April 02, 2008

Grand new party?

Letters to the Boston editor, March 28, 2008
There are a lot of great things happening in Massachusetts with the GOP.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | March 26, 2008

Extreme makeover: Globe edition

Now more than ever, this is Marty Baron’s newspaper
Earlier this week, in an e-mail to the Boston Globe newsroom, editor Marty Baron announced the imminent departure of three key employees.
By ADAM REILLY | March 12, 2008

Savage love

What we talk about when we talk about the Globe’s Pulitzer
First things first: congratulations to Globe reporter Charlie Savage on a much-deserved Pulitzer Prize.
By ADAM REILLY | April 18, 2007

Fixing Finneran

Friendly advice
Starting a new job is never easy.
By ADAM REILLY | February 15, 2007

Seven for seven

What’s news in the New Year? Plan on these stories dominating Boston’s media landscape.
While coverage of the Red Sox is always excessive (except for the sweet deals they get from the politicians, but whatever), the arrival of Daisuke Matsuzaka will make things even worse than usual.
By ADAM REILLY | December 29, 2006

Tabloid dreams

Can Kevin Convey rescue the Herald ?
These are dark days in the newspaper business as a whole, but things are especially grim over at Herald Square.
By ADAM REILLY | November 30, 2006

Republican radio

Two days with WRKO-AM, the unofficial broadcast arm of Kerry Healey’s campaign for governor
If you’re a political liberal — or just someone who has a sense of fair play — listening to two straight days of talk on WRKO-AM isn’t easy.
By ADAM REILLY | October 30, 2006

Digging for attention

After the Big Dig tunnel tragedy, the Herald and the Globe put on a full-court press. Who came out on top?
A great big plant. That was the main image on the front cover of the Boston Globe on Tuesday, July 11 when the electronic media was buzzing about the death of 38-year-old Milena Del Valle inside one of the Big Dig tunnels.
By ADAM REILLY | July 19, 2006

High noon at the Herald

If Purcell sells off the suburbs, what will happen to his big-city tab?
Pat Purcell’s speech last Friday at a UMass Boston conference on ethnic media was auspiciously timed.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | March 30, 2006

Yahoo!’s one-man news army

Plus, sizing up ABC’s new anchors, gutsy changes at RKO, and reporters turn into government investigators
Everyone’s heard of garage rock.
By MARK JURKOWITZ | January 26, 2006