Get outta town is exactly what former Dig editor and BoMag contributor Joe Keohane decided to do a while ago, making the unthinkable move to our near-neighbor, New York. When Keohane made up his mind to leave the city, he was surprised by how quickly Boston turned a cold shoulder. He tried to conjure up moments of nostalgia:
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The Globe reported that the Metro was shrinking, and Joe Keohane at Boston Daily noted that the Globe got details wrong. Then the Metro trumped that little blunder by reporting that the Globe was planning "hundreds" of layoffs and would raise the price of the paper to 75 cents.
Yesterday, Bostonist spread the word that the daily paper the Metro is going through a tough time, a fairly standard story as far as journalism is concerned. While comparing the Globe and the Herald's takes on the Metro shakeup, which included staff dismissals and the publisher's resignation, Bostonist noticed a change in tone between the articles.
The space-saver war continues. Yesterday, Donovan Slack followed up on the city's attempts to get a few residents of South Boston to stop saving parking spaces after a snowstorm, even though they can keep the space for 48 hours.
Michele McPhee, Boston's queen bee of crime reporting, is jumping from the Herald to a full-time slot at WTKK. Boston Daily landed the scoop confirming what two of Boston's most reliable mediawatchers, Dan Kennedy of Media Nation and Adam Reilly of the Phoenix, heard. From Joe Keohane at Boston Daily: "Sources close to McPhee confirm this, and add that she’s taken a full-time gig at WTKK-FM and ditched daily journalism altogether." What will the Herald...
We had heard word from a kind tipper that some of the Weekly Dig staff gave notice as soon as former Editor Michael Brodeur found out that he was fired. The Boston Magazine blog just confirmed that managing editor Shaula Clark and staff writer Julia Reischel are indeed gone.
This week, Boston Magazine blog spread the word that the Globe had hired Veronica Chao, editor of the Improper Bostonian to helm the Globe's Sunday City Weekly section.
Howie Carr, Herald columnist and talking head, might be raking in even more money once he goes to radio station WTKK when his WRKO contract ends. If Carr goes to WTKK, he might make $7 million smackers over five years if he meets ratings targets. Of course, he has to solve his legal brawl with WRKO first.
"Get to Know Us By Filling in the __ : An Evening of Literary & Musical Entertainment" will be from 6 to 9 pm tonight, May 23, at 647 Boylston Street. Clear your calendars because 826 Boston, the soon-to-be-opened Massachusetts division of the writing school that started in San Francisco, is holding its inaugural fundraiser. "Get to Know Us By Filling in the __ : An Evening of Literary & Musical Entertainment" promises to get...
Joe Keohane, editor of the Weekly Dig, will be leaving the paper to embark up on a lucrative career as a freelance writer. Best of luck to him, but, given how hard it is to make a living as a freelancer, Bostonist hopes he likes the taste of ramen noodles. Even Keohane jokes about that his future "vast freelance wealth" in the press release announcing his departure. (Did you know that the inventor of...
In this week’s News & Opinions’ “Weekly Dig” Editor Joe Keohane delves into the heated controversy over Intelligent Design (ID). It’s been difficult to escape the term Intelligent Design, a variation on “Creationism,” in popular media’s discourse. In recent weeks the Kansas Board of Education voted in favor of teaching ID, causing many, including Keohane to cite Kansas’ history with teaching evolution in public schools. The infamous John Scopes debacle of 1925 when the high...
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