media reporter @bostonglobe • previously @theinformation • tips to [email protected] and aidanfitzryan.13 on signal
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Joined January 2018
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New: WBUR chief executive Margaret Low announced today that she is stepping down from her role in June 2027. bostonglobe.com/2026/10/20/b…
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New at Media Nation: MassINC's board votes to recognize CommonWealth Beacon's new union. I've got statements from management and from the union. dankennedy.net/2026/10/16/ma…
MassINC board chair Eileen O’Connor said that staff informed management of their unionization efforts Wednesday, adding that management appreciates “the outstanding work done by a small team of reporters,” but “needs time to engage the full Board of Directors before responding.”
More details in the Globe’s Power Play newsletter here: bostonglobe.com/2026/10/15/n…
The CommonWealth Beacon newsroom is unionizing, staff members announced today. The guild said that MassINC, which owns the politics and policy-focused publication, has not yet commented on whether it will voluntarily recognizing the union.
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Anonymous no more: Meet the 36-year-old Boston software engineer behind the viral Mass Daily News website trib.al/0vxQOJ4
My latest story @BostonGlobe goes behind Mass Daily News, a right-wing and, until now, anonymous site run by a software engineer with AI-generated posts. It's helped fuel viral media cycles targeting Wu and other progressives, often without key context. bostonglobe.com/2026/10/10/b…
Spectrum News NECN officially launched Wednesday. Will viewers tune into a fresh, regional TV news network? bostonglobe.com/2026/09/23/b…
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A Covid-cautious lesbian bar in Western MA made customers wear KN-95s. When management decided to relax the mandate a few weeks ago, all hell broke loose.
The community they worked so hard to build turned on them — calling them ableist, racist, even eugenicist.
New: The WHDH-TV photographers' union said it's reached a tentative contract agreement with the station, which would end a tense 15-month fight. Workers have filed grievance charges to the NLRB, filed federal lawsuits, and picketed outside the station. bostonglobe.com/2026/09/18/b…
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Brave new world? At @UpriseRI, "Most of our reporting is produced by computing agents — intelligent LLM reporters." @aidanfitzryan quotes me in his story bostonglobe.com/2026/09/17/b…
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From @aidanfitzryan: A Rhode Island website was once an influential progressive blog. AI avatars now write most of its stories.
bostonglobe.com/2026/09/17/b…
Boston NPR station WBUR announced a $125 million funding campaign Wednesday morning, its largest in history. Fellow Boston public media giant GBH is targeting a $225 million campaign that it announced just under a year ago. bostonglobe.com/2026/09/09/b…
Once again, a small town Massachusetts courthouse is in the center of a media maelstrom. My piece from Plymouth on the media circus surrounding the Lindsay Clancy trial. bostonglobe.com/2026/09/04/b…
The National Trust for Local News, the nonprofit that owns the Portland Press Herald and other newspapers in Maine, Georgia, and Colorado, is buying five papers in Vermont. nationaltrustforlocalnews.or…
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The Massachusetts Gaming Commission is investigating an apparent admission of proxy sports betting by Bill Simmons, the Boston-bred sportswriter and cultural critic. trib.al/s48Pkq2
My profile of Heather Cox Richardson was the cover story of yesterday's @BostonGlobeMag. I visited the historian in Maine to discuss her storytelling origins, her loudest critics, and her unrelenting efforts to defend a democracy she believes is at risk. bostonglobe.com/2026/08/11/m…
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Heather Cox Richardson, a Boston College professor and historian, has built a following of millions on Substack. She still thinks America can be saved. trib.al/FmpfFey
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Here's a great read from @aidanfitzryan on how @HC_Richardson conquered the Lib internet 👇
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