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I didn't read this Globe op-ed on " linguistic paranoia " until yesterday evening. But when I did, my sympathy for the author's goal was pretty much negated by her deeply questionable reasoning. Nataly Kelly--"a senior analyst with...
In which I argue that Kevin Cullen shouldn't second-guess his decision to write about Rakan Hassan.
Granted, my look at coverage of Jim Marzilli and mental illness in general is no longer "hot off the presses." But it was fairly recently! So please: take a look if you haven't already.
A couple staffing changes worth noting over at Morrissey Boulevard: First, the paper has hired Jenifer McKim to take over the residential real-estate beat previously covered by Binyamin Appelbaum . McKim is currently a Nieman Fellow at Harvard; she previously...
I once got the following advice from a Globie: Every now and then, when it's warranted, point out something the paper's done well --and leave it at that. No asterisks, disclaimers, snide asides, etc. Binyamin Appelbaum's* troubling examination...
In a post yesterday, I implied that the Boston Globe was the first to report the Herald's big upcoming wave of layoffs. In fact, the Boston Business Journal got there first --last Friday, to be precise. My apologies.
That, according to two Globe employees, was one big question raised at the Monday " town meeting " at the paper's Morrissey Boulevard headquarters. When a possible sale of the Globe by the NYT Co. came up, one employee says, Arthur Sulzberger...
That's the goal described in the June 18 letter from Globe senior VP Gregory L. Thornton, president of the Boston Newspaper Guild, that officially proposed a 10 percent wage cut for most Globe employees. "As we shared with you and other union...