Twenty-five years ago this week, in the immediate aftermath of September 11th, 2001, I was heading for Afghanistan to report for The Boston Globe. I was with a small group of colleagues and we would […]
After a quarter century that brought us a crisis in journalism, there are lessons learned by local journalists about serving their communities. NEW YORK — Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday, the skyline of lower Manhattan […]
BOSTON — A field of small American flags stirred only faintly in a light breeze early this morning. Then, just after 8:46 AM, the wind picked up off of Boston Harbor, and the flags were […]
What we see (and don’t see) in the Middle East The U.S.-Iran conflict continues to escalate, and it is hard for me not to feel a centrifugal force pulling me toward the Middle East. For […]
A free press ignited the American Revolution History matters, especially when it informs the present. As we reflect on the 250 years since the birth of America, the historic role that a free press played […]
The presses keep rolling in Small Town America It was the last great newspaper war in America. A fabled time in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s when four major daily newspapers were […]
The dramatic decline of news organizations in the United States over the last two decades has coincided with a steady drop in union membership overall across the country, but recently the NewsGuild, which is part […]
For more than two months, GroundTruth has been on a virtual road trip through the crisis in local news across America. We’ve been from Pittsfield, Massachusetts to Chicago and Montana down to Austin, Texas. But […]
It was early in 2022, and I was part of a virtual panel on the crisis in local news hosted by WBUR in Boston along with an extraordinary entrepreneur and force of nature named Crystal Good, who […]
Editor’s Note: This is part of a continuing series mapping the crisis in local news, navigating newspapers in distress, those finding a way to sustain and highlighting bright spots in the new digital organizations that are emerging. CHICAGO […]