HOW TO FIND NEWS YOU CAN TRUST
Some thoughts from a working journalist A few days ago I was at a local hospital for a routine test,…
Some thoughts from a working journalist A few days ago I was at a local hospital for a routine test,…
The Bay State has a fraught history of sentencing people to serve life without parole. Now lawmakers have a chance to end…
Given all that, running news outlets as nonprofits is no panacea for the many problems besetting American journalism. It’s actually a difficult option that isn’t necessarily morally superior to running a for-profit news outlet. And how could it be otherwise? Having a board and a membership does not automatically result in more independence for news nonprofits in our capitalist political economic system. Especially if their members are inactive and their boards are more interested in placating donors than doing the kind of take-no-prisoners journalism that their staff journalists often want to do.
May these entries be a record of my young creative mind in a peak of teen angst. Now, although I am a…
This past year we’ve all been struggling with the knowledge that we have to do something, and the uncertainty of not knowing…