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Rest in Peace Anne Adams, Television Producer Extraordinaire
I loved working with Anne Adams at WGBH’s Greater Boston, where she was supervising producer from 1998 to around 2006. She was smart, funny, and cynical – everything you could ever ask for in a co-worker. And now she’s gone. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Adams, Boston Globe, Bryan Marquard, Depression: Out of the Shadows, Greater Boston, Peter Masalsky, WGBH
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Times Co. Town (Andy Rooney Edition)
From our Before They Made Him They Broke the Mold desk (apologies to S.J. Perelman): Kissin’ cousins New York Times and Boston Globe staged a compare-and -contrastapalooza with their respective obituaries of CBS News icon Andy Rooney. The Globe glowbit here. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Rooney, Beat the Press, Boston Globe, Emily Rooney, glowbit, Greater Boston, New York Times, WGBH
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Boston Globe’s Conflict-Of-Disinterest Policy
Saturday’s Boston Globe Business pages included this piece by tech writer Hiawatha Bray about “Mobile DTV, a new technology that could turn millions of digital gadgets into portable TV sets.” Headline: WGBH steps into mobile TV market Nut graf: WGBH … Continue reading
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Tagged Basic Black, Boston Globe, Emily Rooney Show, full disclosure, Greater Boston, Hiawatha Bray, WGBH
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Steve Pagliuca Is Still Calling My House
Despite our attempts to discourage Steve Pagliuca from junk dialing us for votes, the Missus and I keep getting robo-calls from the U.S. Senate hopeful (D-ATM). All the while, Pags (as he’d like us to call him) is piling up … Continue reading
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Tagged Doris Kearns Goodwin, Emily Rooney, Greater Boston, Plagiarists for Pags
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