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Political Notebook: The empty seat inside the State House press gallery
Is the Associated Press pulling back from coverage of the Massachusetts State House?
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CommonWealth Beacon’s best Codcasts of 2024
Looking back at 2024 through our favorite podcasts of the year.
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The top ten CommonWealth Beacon stories of 2024
ALL ROADS lead to home, or perhaps the nearest T station. Housing and transportation are both issues that roiled policymakers on and off Beacon Hill, as state officials sought to navigate crises on both fronts by passing a multibillion housing bond bill and debating ways to fund transportation as the MBTA faces a yawning budget […]
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Good news about news in Waltham
The Waltham Times is the latest entry in an emerging sector of nonprofit local news outlets. Some two dozen Massachusetts communities are now home to citizen-led news enterprises aiming to fill the void left by the shuttering or hollowing out of community newspapers that once served as key pillars of the local civic infrastructure.
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CommonWealth Beacon’s new editor on public service journalism
Colarusso comes to CommonWealth after more than three years at Nieman Reports, which is the Harvard University Nieman Foundation magazine focused on the journalism industry.
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Bruce Mohl made CommonWealth must-reading — and brought me back into civic life
CommonWealth Beacon editor Bruce Mohl retired last week after 16 years. Longtime opinion contribtor Jim Aloisi offered this tribute and reflection on the mark he made. I’VE BEEN A somewhat regular contributor to Commonwealth Beacon since 2013. Like many opportunities in my life, this role was not one I had contemplated or sought out. My writing […]
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A consumer’s guide to newspaper endorsements
The problem with the moves by Bezos and Soon-Shiong is that they acted at the last minute, overturning their editorial boards and convincing absolutely no one that there was any principle behind their decision beyond not provoking the wrath of former President Donald Trump.
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In Melrose, an experiment in hyper-local AI podcasting
Catalini sighs describing the Melrose news options over the 25 years since he moved with his wife to the city, which felt “robust” at the time. Now, almost nobody is covering hyper-local news like override votes or digging into the overwhelming documentation around proposed zoning policy, he said.
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Colarusso taking over as CommonWealth Beacon editor
A graduate of Columbia University and Columbia’s graduate school of journalism, Colarusso has also worked as digital managing editor at WGBH and digital opinion editor at the Boston Globe.