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With all due respect, what the fuck is Katherine L. Cohen talking about ? Boston is a great college town because--wait for it--it has "reasonably priced tourist attractions"? Amherst gets the nod because it's "known to have concerts...
The New York Times has a new, full-screen photo blog called " Lens "--and it might not exist without Boston.com's " The Big Picture ." From a write-up in Photo District News : Lens draws some inspiration from The Big Picture a...
The Globe publisher's plan for the paper (and Boston.com) was described in an email sent to staffers earlier today. Much of what's discussed is familiar (e.g., the union negotiations and the Yahoo partnership). However, this is the first I've...
Editor & Publisher reports that Boston.com is a quintuple finalist in the 2009 EPpy awards, the new-media contest sponsored jointly by E&P and Newsweek. The honorees include the Your Town sites, Things to do ; Boston Arts and Entertainment , Tony...
If you read Boston.com's current most-emailed item--" Children's bath products tainted with likely carcinogens "--and would like to see the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics report that generated the item in question, here's where you...
If Steve Brill has his way , the New York Times will aggressively push back against the free-content model that's come to predominate on the internet--and the Boston Globe just might follow suit. As Brill puts it in a memo obtained and posted by Jim...
Now starring on Boston.com: some dude taking what looks like a really painful fall on the ice . Questions to consider: 1) If you were the guy in question, how would you feel about the Globe documenting your accident? (Note: it's not clear whether...
Recovering Journalist blogger Mark Potts today pans the NYT Co. for " wimp[ing] out " in the face of GateHouse Media's lawsuit--and, in the processes, advances the widespread notion that GateHouse's suit was unjustifiable: [I]n waging...
According to one school of thought, GateHouse's decision to challenge Boston.com's " Your Town " approach in court merits utter contempt. As a commenter on Universal Hub said : "This is a clear case of a bunch of morons who skipped...
About that Boston newspaper war I mentioned a couple days ago? Between GateHouse and the Globe? Well, it just got a whole lot nastier . As Dan Kennedy notes, there's a very important issue at play here: Since Boston.com is selling advertising on its...
What interests me most about this article isn't that Boston.com's street-cleaning alert system isn't working well for Somerville. It's that GateHouse--which publishes the Somerville Journal and the related site Wicked Local Somerville...
From Boston.com's front page : "Teens' nude photos get surprising results." The results in question? Teens love looking at pictures of each other naked . Egad.
Bad news coming out of Horticultural Hall: Boston Daily blogger Amy Derjue is now a casualty of the ongoing financial meltdown. The good news, such as it is, is that Derjue will continue blogging here . Of course, DIY blogging tends not to pay the bills...
Boston.com is currently hyping an interview with recently arrested Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner on its front page. This is an exceedingly smart move, since the Q-and-A (conducted by former city councilor Tom Keane for a piece in next Sunday's...
Forty-two positions total, in the circulation/marketing and advertising departments, including senior managers. That's just one of the developments reported in an internal memo from Globe publisher Steve Ainsley today. Also of note: Boston.com now...
