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Reality Paycheck at the Boston Globenew

Rumor has it that the Boston Globe is primed to ask its staff to do the same work for less pay. And it just might happen.

Boston Phoenix | Adam Reilly | 07-10-2008 | Media

Tags: journalism, media, Boston Globe, newspapers

Is Anybody Paying Attention to McClatchy's Powerful Guantanamo Expose?new

With this past week's publication of a series on the Kafka-esque detention of thousands of foreign nationals following 9/11, the hybrid McClatchy–Knight Ridder DC operation is enjoying its biggest achievement to date.

Boston Phoenix | Adam Reilly | 06-26-2008 | Media

Tags: journalism, media, detainees, Guantanamo Bay, civil liberties, Matthew Schofield, McClatchy, Tom Lasseter

Old and New Media Are Still Squaring Off in Jocklandnew

For some reason, though, the general coming-together of the typewriter and podcast sets doesn't extend to sports. To an extent unmatched in any other journalistic subgroup, the (mostly) men who write stories and columns on the world of sports seem to regard their web-based successors (also mostly men) with a potent mix of contempt and rage.

Boston Phoenix | Adam Reilly | 06-19-2008 | Media

Tags: journalism, media, newspapers, blogs, web culture, sports & fitness, Buzz Bissinger, Deadspin

It's Time for the Press to Cover John McCain Againnew

From his Islam problem to hints of misogyny, here are ten places for political reporters to start.

Boston Phoenix | Adam Reilly | 05-15-2008 | Media

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, John McCain, journalism, media, political reporting

"Kennedy Loathing," "Romney's Greatest Gaffes," "Citizen Arrest"new

AltWeeklies Award - Column-Political

Boston Phoenix | Adam Reilly | 04-21-2008 | Media

Tags: media

Soul Controlnew

VH1's new rock-doc treatment of James Brown's April 5, 1968, concert at Boston Garden -- The Night James Brown Saved Boston -- has a much broader scope than its title would suggest. And that's precisely why it's so good.

Boston Phoenix | Adam Reilly | 04-03-2008 | TV

Tags: TV, The Night James Brown Saved Boston, VH1

Biolab Folliesnew

When work began on Boston University's laboratory for Level 4 deadly-disease research, the project seemed unstoppable, but a string of legal, diplomatic, and political setbacks have changed all that. What went wrong?

Boston Phoenix | Adam Reilly | 04-03-2008 | Science

Tags: Health & Science

Bay Area Beatdownnew

Looking for the soap-operatic significance of the Bay Guardian-Village Voice Media battle.

Boston Phoenix | Adam Reilly | 03-11-2008 | Media

Tags: media

See No Evilnew

A surveillance-camera tape may help explain the murder of Revere, Massachusetts police officer Daniel Talbot, but Suffolk DA Dan Conley won't let the local newspaper see the evidence.

Boston Phoenix | Adam Reilly | 02-29-2008 | Media

Tags: media