The Globe reports on the legal victory by Carlo DeMaria whom the Everett Leader Herald called "Kickback Carlo" among other things. A Middlesex Superior Court judge last year froze property owned by paper owner Matthew Philbin and publisher - and writer - Joshua Resnek after concluding DeMaria had a damn good case that the paper was deliberately making crap up about him.
WBUR self reports on the end of Radio Boston after 17 years on the air.
The move comes just months after its host, Tiziana Dearing, was named anchor of WBUR’s Morning Edition show, where she continues to interview major newsmakers on a regular basis, including Gov. Maura Healey and Mayor Michelle Wu.
Let's ask Dan Shaughnessy!
Now lest you think that's just some copy editor blurbing badly, it's actually in the column, written by the longtime resident of Newton, which isn't really all that far from Fenway Park: Read more.
Hot off the presses: Zyber delivered Waterman News yesterday.
As a reporter, you know you've established a beat when people start e-mailing you tips.
Joseph Zyber is getting e-mail tips, four months after he started writing and publishing Waterman News, a weekly newspaper that covers his home street of Waterman Road in Roslindale. Read more.
Three local newsrooms have won $100,000 grants to bolster local news coverage in the Boston area, from a group called Press Forward, which is trying to reinvigorate really local journalism. Read more.
CommonWealth Beacon announced today that Laura Colarusso, currently editor of the media-focused Nieman Reports at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard, will replace Bruce Mohl when he retires as CommonWealth Beacon editor.
Colarusso has had stints working as an online editor at both the Globe and WGBH.
Dan Secatore contrasts Globe and MassLive.com coverage of Devers's reaction to Yet Another Loss and finds the Globe published a good in-the-locker-room look at why Devers might have spent 40 minutes staring at his locker while MassLive published a pointless whine about the ballplayer who wouldn't talk to reporters.
Miles Grant notes the odd exclusion in a Globe list of "10 movies about work to stream this Labor Day weekend" - they have "Monsters, Inc.," but not anything like, oh, "Norma Rae" or "On the Waterfront." Fortunately, people of a more labor-ish bent on Labor Day have Deadline's list of "15 Movies About Labor Unions And Strikes."
A soaked resident filed a 311 complaint about the water feature that GBH is now running nightly along the sidewalk outside its studios at Guest and Market streets in Brighton: Read more.
RadioInsight reports that the Beasley Media Group is for some no doubt very important reasons, swapping its current Bloomberg business talk at 1330 AM with its classic-rock WBOS at 92.9 FM, so you'll get the latest market updates in stereo and Metallica sounding like it's coming to you via a Radio Shack Flavoradio.
Adam 12 has to break it all down for you, so you won't have to miss a moment of Dave and Chuck the Freak come the switchover midday on Sept. 3
GBH announced today it's teaming up with public-radio stations in Springfield and the Cape to report on news from the Berkshires to Provincetown. Read more.
Martin Evans compares Boeing's quality-control issues with GBH's recent and "shameful" layoffs and show terminations, says both have lost sight of their "core competencies:" Read more.
WBZ's morning anchor Kate Merrill hadn't been on the air in a couple weeks and now the station says she's left of her own volition - just three months after she celebrated her 20th year there.
The station has already scrubbed her from its Web site. Her fans are not happy with the station.
GBH has posted details of its cuts today: 31 people were laid off and Greater Boston, Talking Politics and Basic Black shows are being taken off the air. Read more.
Jim Braude opened his Boston Public Radio show this morning with the news.
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