In August the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication will make Boston the scene of its annual convention.
Newcomers might want to start browsing through these two serious discussions of possible futures for The Boston Globe. Both authors suggest paying more attention to the company's Boston.com Web site.
(If you haven't been following the drama, the Globe is currently owned by The New York Times, which has put it up for sale after rough negotiations with the paper's unions.)
- Next steps for the shrinking Globe -- Dan Kennedy
- Metamorphosis for the Globe? -- Martin Langeveld
The newspaper's section of the Globe Web site is technically boston.com/bostonglobe.
For more browsing: The Globe's main competition is The Boston Herald. One or both of those articles mention a third daily, a free paper aimed mostly at subway-riders, the Metro.
The city's old-established "alternative" weekly is The Phoenix. When I lived there 10 years ago an alternative-alternative was just getting started, the Weekly Dig, probably a reference to the city's "Big Dig" monumental tunnel-building that was going on at the time.
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