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| | | | On the latest "What Works" podcast, Dan and Ellen talk with Bob Sprague, a pioneer in hyperlocal journalism and the founder ofyourArlington, a nonprofit news project that covers Arlington, Massachusetts. Bob, who has lived in Arlington since 1989, was not only the founder - he was the editor of the website until July 1 of... | |
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| | | | By Dan Kennedy The release of a new report by Penelope Muse Abernathy on the state of local news is always a big deal. For 15 years now, she's been tracking the extent of the crisis, and has done more than anyone to popularize the phrase "news deserts," which describes communities without a source of... | |
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| | | | By Dan Kennedy As you may have heard, union journalists at many Gannett newspapers staged a one-day strike Monday to protest chair Michael Reed's brutal leadership style, which has resulted in devastating cuts and a sliding stock price even as he's pulled down more than $11 million in compensation over the past two years. I'll... | |
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| | By Dan Kennedy Brian MacQuarrie of The Boston Globe has an overview of efforts to sell the Portland Press Herald of Maine and its affiliated daily and weekly papers. Back in April, I wrote about the establishment of a nonprofit organization, the Maine Journalism Foundation, known as MaineJF, which was hoping to purchase the papers... |