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Book Review: “The People’s Paper” Offers a Rollicking Account of New York’s Daily News and Its War with the New York Post
By Dan Kennedy Founded as a sensational tabloid with right-wing, racist sensibilities, the city’s white working-class voice tried to go upscale — and lost to Rupert Murdoch’s sleazier competitor. The People’s Paper: The Rise and Fall of the New York Daily News by Matthew Pressman. Columbia University Press, 344 pages, $28 (paper) One recent Friday morning I picked up both of New York’s tabloids. The contrast was instructive. The Daily News featured a grotesque murder on the front page.
Book Review: "Deserted" — How the Local News Crisis Is Devastating Rural Communities - The Arts Fuse
By Dan Kennedy Social change and corporate greed are destroying newspapers in small-town America. What happens to the people left behind? Deserted: Life Without Local News in Rural America by Nick Mathews. University of Illinois Press, 168 pages, $110 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Local news is in crisis everywhere, but the challenge is more daunting in rural areas than it is in cities or affluent suburbs. Consider the Storm Lake Times Pilot, which serves a farming community in Iowa.
Ending the requirement that legal ads be published by news outlets would harm democracy and journalism
Posted Wednesday, June 3, 2026 4:50 pm There’s a lot of talk about how government should support local journalism, so it’s ironic that the Mass. Legislature is considering rescinding the requirement that towns place public notices in newspapers — not just on their own websites.” Since Colonial times, state and local governments have been required to publish legal advertisements in newspapers about official proclamations, court citations, vital records, and the like.
At a moment of crisis, Boston’s top two public media leaders argue that building community is the way forward. They’re right. - CommonWealth Beacon
AT A MOMENT when public broadcasters are staggering from the loss of $1.1 billion in federal funds over the next two years, Boston’s two leading public media executives say that rebuilding trust and community are the keys to survival. “I think the best way to build trust is from the local community up,” said Susan Goldberg, president and chief executive of GBH, which operates television, radio, and digital platforms.
A consumer’s guide to newspaper endorsements
THE NEWSPAPER WORLD was rocked last week when two billionaire owners, Patrick Soon-Shiong of the Los Angeles Times followed by Jeff Bezos of The Washington Post, killed endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris against the wishes of their editorial boards. Harris supporters erupted in outrage, with many of them vowing to cancel their subscriptions and demanding to know how two wealthy men could be allowed to interfere with the sanctity of the editorial process.
How a state commission could help ease the local news crisis
EVERY REPORTER KNOWS that the proper relationship between journalism and government is arm’s-length, even adversarial. Our job is to hold elected officials to account, not ask them for handouts. So why were 10 publishers, journalists, academics, and advocates on Beacon Hill (in person and virtually) on Wednesday asking for the creation of a state commission that could propose ways of helping news organizations?
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