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The words inscribed on New Bedford's Civil War Memorial indicate the people of New Bedford understood emancipation was as significant as reunification. ....
In New Bedford, career journalists looking to shine a new light By Gal Tziperman Lotan Globe Staff,Updated April 10, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend Barbara Roessner, founding editor of The New Bedford Light, says she wants her new organization to be an integral part of the local community.Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff The first priority at The New Bedford Light, a nonprofit news organization launching this spring, sets an ambitious course: a broad accounting of what the pandemic has done to the coastal city of 95,000, and how it can recover. âWe are collecting data, we are talking to folks on the ground,â founding editor Barbara Roessner said in a recent interview. âWe are attempting to understand what we lost, how we move forward, whatâs happened to the culture of the community, the culture of the neighborhood, when gathering places have shut down and some may never open up again.â ....
How two nontraditional newsrooms in Vermont are winning readers Could their examples hold the key to fixing âThe Expanding News Desertâ? By Mark Shanahan Globe Staff,Updated December 28, 2020, 12:44 p.m. Email to a Friend Anne Galloway wondered if her journalism career might be over. It was January 2009 and the Sunday editor of the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus was among 16 employees abruptly laid off when the newspaperâs owner slashed positions in a round of budget cuts. âI knew I wanted to stay in journalism,â says Galloway. âBut there werenât many jobs in the offing.â Or any. All over Vermont, the story was the same: Newspapers were downsizing as readers in ever greater numbers were getting their news for free on the Internet, and advertising revenue â which sustained print journalism for two centuries â had dwindled to a trickle during the recession between 2007 and 2009. ....