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Real Paper alumni get together this Thursday
Veterans of the Real Paper, a Boston-based alternative weekly in the 1970s, will get together in a Ford Hall Forum event this Thursday to discuss what they learned and what lessons that might hold for...
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Copyright hypocrisy at the New York Times
Last Saturday the New York Times posted a PDF of a 1976 article by the legendary Boston sports journalist Clark Booth that appeared in the Real Paper, an alternative weekly that was published for...
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The Boston Phoenix comes to the end of the road
I’m not even going to try to write a real post about this today. I’m getting bombarded from all directions, and besides that, I’m devastated. But I did want to note quickly, in case you haven’t heard,...
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A pair of heartfelt tributes to the Boston Phoenix
I want to share with you two extraordinary reflections on the Boston Phoenix and what its loss means to the city and the region. There have been a lot of such reminiscences, and many of them have been...
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The Boston connection to the Las Vegas newspaper deal
Yes, I really own this rare memento. Congratulations to the staff of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which fearlessly revealed Wednesday night that the money behind its new owner is casino mogul Sheldon...
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Las Vegas editor out as details emerge about judge story
Sheldon Adelson in 2010 (photo via Wikipedia) The editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the paper that was recently purchased in secret by casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, has resigned, The New York...
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How a Connecticut journalist unmasked ‘Edward Clarkin’
Christine Stuart (via Facebook) The recent sale of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is such a strange and complicated morass that it’s hard to know where to begin. There was the shroud of secrecy that was...
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