End of era for local newspapers The South Boston Tribune published its final edition Thursday. The Dorchester Argus-Citizen, Jamaica Plain Citizen, and Hyde Park Tribune are also folding. In an era before Facebook, Twitter, and online news sources became the norm, community papers were a constant for many Boston neighborhoods. But as more readers migrated to the Web for their news […]
Boston.com ‘Looks like the apocalypse’: Gannett weekly papers across the state announce the end of print publication Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University professor of journalism and close observer of local news, said in theory the closures make sense. But instead of just lowering printing costs for local papers, Kennedy said recent changes are also limiting news coverage.