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Weekly Dig Story Forces Resignation of Boston Pride Officialnew
Yesterday, the Dig revealed that Boston Pride Committee fundraising chair Bill Berggren has a criminal record and is a convicted sex offender. Later in the day, Berggren stepped down from the committee. "My resignation comes in the wake of a malicious attempt to bring my personal life into the public sphere," Berggren writes in his resignation letter. "This has precipitated a hasty judgment from some members of the community, and I anticipate the enemies of Pride will seize this opportunity to attack the organization. In order to protect Boston Pride from unnecessary attacks two weeks before Pride Week, I am quickly stepping aside."
Bay Windows |
05-24-2007 3:08 pm |
Industry News
Weekly Dig Founder to Buy Back Paper from Magazine Publishernew
Only a few years into its majority ownership of the Dig, Metrocorp Inc. and the paper have decided to part ways, the Herald reports. Metrocorp, which is also the publisher of Boston magazine, will sell the Dig back to founder Jeff Lawrence (pictured). "We never got a clear feeling that it was part of our DNA," says Metrocorp president David Lipson. "The Dig emerges independent with a higher circulation and greater recognition in the market, but also with more overhead, and without Metrocorp bankrolling the costs," the Herald notes. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. "Let's just say I'm not nearly as liquid a man as I was previously," Lawrence says.
Boston Herald |
05-02-2007 8:14 am |
Industry News
Weekly Dig Editor Takes Post at Boston Magazinenew
Joe Keohane, who was recently replaced at the Dig by Michael Brodeur, is now a staff writer at Boston Magazine, WBZ-TV reports. Boston Magazine's parent company, Metrocorp, bought a majority interest in the Dig in 2004.
WBZ-TV |
03-06-2007 10:27 am |
Industry News
New Weekly Dig Editor 'Has Little Interest in Any Gay Agenda'new
Michael Brodeur, recently named as Joe Keohane's replacement as editor of the Boston alt-weekly, talks with IN Newsweekly, a New England GLBT newspaper, about being gay, but steers the conversation -- about himself and about the Dig -- beyond identity politics. "It's not that I go up to people and say, hi, I'm gay," says Brodeur. "It doesn't really matter. I just want someone to be interested in what we're writing."
IN Newsweekly |
02-20-2007 12:33 pm |
Industry News
Weekly Dig's Director of New Media Wins Bacon-Eating Contestnew
Jim Stanton, recently hired by the Dig "to rehabilitate the paper's disastrously bad website," out-consumed a dozen or so other hardcore pork eaters at Cambridge's Atwood's Tavern. "I'm glad all my perseverance and hard work paid off," Stanton tells the Emerson College TV show Afterhours.
Afterhours |
02-15-2007 10:55 am |
Honors & Achievements
Boston Media Types Hail Keohane
The Boston Herald's media reporter calls it "(a) big loss." A local TV guy says it's "an unwelcome blow to this city’s precious supply of sarcasm and creative loathing." All of this wailing and gnashing of teeth is for Joe Keohane, the Weekly Dig editor who announced yesterday that he was leaving the paper next month.
"Singlehandedly, he has transformed a once-lousy altweekly into a lousy altweekly with a brilliant editorial (by himself) and a handful of other great features ... that spoke truth to power," says a Boston Globe blogger. Meanwhile, Dig president Jeff Lawrence wonders what all the fuss is about. After all, he tells the Herald, the Dig doesn’t encourage editorial employees to stick around for more than five years.
Boston Herald | Boston Globe | Boston CBS4 |
01-10-2007 4:59 pm |
Industry News
Boston's Weekly Dig Announces Big, Big, Big Editorial Changes
Joe Keohane will be stepping down as editor next month and will be replaced by current music/food/commerce editor Michael Brodeur, the Dig announced today. "Running this zoo has been enormously fun," says Keohane, "but I've always said that turnover is key to keeping an alt-weekly fresh, and Brodeur's the guy for the job." The Dig also announced that staff writer Paul McMorrow will be promoted to news and features editor; Jim Stanton has been hired "to rehabilitate the paper's disastrously bad website;" and
Salon.com writer Cintra Wilson will soon begin contributing a semimonthly celebrity column.
(FULL STORY)
Boston Weekly Dig press release |
01-09-2007 7:31 pm |
Press Releases
Former Mayor, Herald Editor Fill in at Boston's Weekly Dignew
Boston Herald |
11-02-2006 10:52 am |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston's Weekly Dig
Boston's Weekly Dig Celebrates Being in Boston, Not Worcester
Weekly Dig Press Release |
10-27-2006 11:00 am |
Press Releases
Worcester Magazine Celebrates 30th with Biggest Issue Ever!
Not to mention a massive party next weekend
(FULL STORY)
Worcester Magazine Press Release |
10-26-2006 10:33 am |
Press Releases
Weekly Dig Moves to New Offices, Publishes Largest Issue Ever
Weekly Dig Press Release |
10-25-2006 12:44 pm |
Press Releases
Tags: Editorial, Boston's Weekly Dig
LaRouche Defenders Lash Out at Alternative Pressnew
Mike Lacey, VVM and a host of other alternative papers have been sucked into
the Byzantine persecution complex of perennial libertarian presidential
candidate Lyndon LaRouche. A column blasting a number of alt-weeklies for
their anti-Larouchian tendencies appeared last week in something called the Executive Intelligence Report and has been circulating in the blogosphere.
Lissa Harris, a blogger for Boston's Weekly Dig, among those papers named,
gamely attempts to respond with a straight face.
Daily Dig |
10-13-2006 2:47 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Boston's Weekly Dig
Weekly Dig Sales Rep Howls at Nightnew
A humble sales guy for Boston's Weekly Dig by day, by night Alan Levesque plays bass and sings for The Radio Knives, a "primal garage rock" band. "It's the kind of thing that makes cave men jump up and down," Levesque tells The Boston Herald, which gives the trio props.
The Boston Herald |
10-06-2006 10:03 am |
Industry News
Weekly Dig Moves Newsbox After Complaints About Covernew
Boston Herald |
07-11-2006 4:21 am |
Industry News
Tags: Circulation, Boston's Weekly Dig
Phoenix Editor: Dig Is 'Making a PR Play' by Dropping Escort Adsnew
The Boston Globe |
05-22-2006 1:14 pm |
Industry News
