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Tag: Boston

How The Scope mapped their way to accessible 2021 Boston election coverage

This year’s Boston mayoral and city council election is being covered in new, dynamic and interactive ways by Boston-based digital experimental magazine, The Scope.  Using engaging data visualizations, The Scope […]

November 2, 2021November 2, 2021 Cheryl Daniel and Dakotah Kennedy Insights

Using maps, kayaks and notebooks to understand the biodiversity and resilience of Boston’s coastline

On the campaign trail, presidential candidate Donald Trump talked a lot about revitalizing America’s crumbling infrastructure. Other issues, however, have since crowded out the monumental task of addressing this aging […]

June 5, 2018June 7, 2018 Daniel Hentz Climate Journalism Lab, Insights

Lessons from the “Golden Age” of Boston TV news

The Boston television market has a storied history. In 1981, The New York Times declared in a headline about WCVB-TV: “Some some say this is “America’s Best TV Station.” But […]

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 Danae Bucci and Yuan Tian Reinventing Local TV News

Moderating the masses: How the Boston Globe guided discourse about race in Boston

Hosting an open forum online about race sounds like every PR person’s worst nightmare. But not for Heather Ciras, The Boston Globe’s audience engagement editor, who led a discussion in […]

February 13, 2018February 11, 2018 Emily Arntsen Behind the scenes, Interviews

Meet the Media Innovation student who builds Boston Globe data stories

Growing up in an “underdeveloped suburb” in China’s Hebei Province, Yan Wu pored over every page of the newspapers that her father took home from work. Wu’s family couldn’t afford […]

February 5, 2018February 5, 2018 Sukee Bennett Interviews, Research

The Athletic hopes to solve sports reporting with fewer ads and deeper stories

Imagine chopping the sports section out of a newspaper and selling it on its own, online, along with sections from 14 other cities. That’s the product The Athletic founders Adam […]

December 19, 2017December 20, 2017 Charlie Wolfson Insights, Interviews
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