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Tag Archives: Boston Herald
Gronkocalypse 3!! (Globe Rips Off Herald Division)
From our Gronkmageddon desk Sunday’s Boston Herald played its New England Patriots scoop Gronk-and-center in the Sports section: The Ron Borges/Karen Guregian report . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in a Two-Daily Town.
Our ‘Beat The Press Party’ Bakeoff (Spotlight The Globe Edition)
It’s time once again to review the Great Boston MediaWatch Dogfight, especially the rumpus over the Boston Globe’s Spotlight report, Driven to the Edge. Start as usual with the underdog Boston Herald, which has been hounding its crosstown rival all … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (‘Party’ Pooper Edition)
From our Walt Whitman desk Yesterday our feisty local tabloid celebrated itself and sang its Press Party with a full-page ad. Got that – always smart, no-holds-barred discussions from fresh faces with their news noses on the ground and their fingertips on the pulse of the media machine? Two observations: 1) That has … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (Press Party Apparatus Edition)
The Boston Herald’s relentless self-promotion braved new frontiers with this Joe Battenfeld piece in Wednesday’s edition: Apparently, the ladder of success at our feisty local tabloid is actually an escalator . . . Read the rest at It’s Good to Live in … Continue reading
Herald Hacks At Globe Cab Story (III)
Today’s Boston Herald takes another whack at crosstown rival Boston Globe’s Driven to the Edge taxidermy of the city’s cab industry. The latest piece: Times defends Globe undercover scribe A Boston Globe reporter masquerading as a cab driver for an undercover report appears to have … Continue reading
Herald Hacks At Globe Cab Story (II)
In the aftermath of his post on Media Nation this morning about the Boston Herald’s drive-by coverage of the Globe series Driven to the Edge, Dan Kennedy had this Twitter exchange with Seth Mnookin: I have the greatest respect for both these guys as writers, but … Continue reading
Herald Hacks At Globe Cab Story
Our feisty local tabloid does a Page One drive-by on the Boston Globe’s three-part taxidermy of the city’s cab industry. The story in question? Globe reporter Bob Hohler’s takeout yesterday on renewing his hackney license from the ’70s and driving the streets … Continue reading
Hark! The Herald! (Told You So Edition II)
From our Walt Whitman desk As the hardreading staff predicted, the Boston Herald is feeling festive in today’s edition over yesterday’s Top Ten Front Pages coup in the Newseum’s daily bakeoff. Putting on the pompoms: Ready for its close-up . . . Read the rest … Continue reading
Maria Menounos Is A Twitter Mole
Last week the hardtracking staff detailed the stealth marketing efforts of Maria Menounos (“American actress, journalist, television presenter and occasional professional wrestler”) for discount retailer Marshalls. Now comes her sneaktweet for Nike (via the Boston Herald). From Monday’s edition: Menounos tweet . . … Continue reading
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Hark! The Herald! (Preview Edition II)
From our Walt Whitman desk The Boston Herald will be doing some celebrating itself and singing itself tomorrow, thanks to a return trip to The Newseum’s Top Ten Front Pages hit parade. Opening Week Look no further than today’s front pages to find out … Continue reading
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