Dan Kennedy was for many years one of the most artful practitioners of alternative journalism, his work sparkling on the pages of the late and much lamented Boston Phoenix. Paul Bass is one of the emerging heroes of a sort of “new journalism,’’ not the gonzo form practiced by Hunter Thompson and Tom Wolfe — […]

Gov. Deval Patrick announced the grant winners at the Symposium on Water Innovation in Massachusetts (SWIM) on Wednesday. The grants are being awarded to a Florida company, a local startup and a Northeastern Unviersity researcher in hopes to create jobs and positition the Bay State as a hub for investments in advanced water technology, accoriding to Energy […]

Youth employment across Massachusetts, however, is at a historic low. A study released by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University said that only 27 percent of people aged 16 to 19 were employed in 2012, a 54 percent decrease from 1999. Employment is at its lowest point since World War II.  

In explaining NextIT’s work, Morrison repeatedly cited research conducted by Northeastern University’s Timothy Bickmore, who argues that so-called relational agents “can play a major role in the chronic disease management process by providing patients not only with an additional source of information about their disease, treatment regimen and adherence level, but with motivational support for taking care […]

Manufacturing companies in Massachusetts pay an average of $27,000 per year for unskilled, entry-level workers and $52,000 per year for skilled production workers, according to Northeastern University Professor Barry Bluestone, who serves on the collaborative’s board.

In May, Time magazine ran a cover story on “The Me Me Me Generation,” the social media loving, status-sharing millennials that writer Joel Stein described as “entitled narcissists.” Yet despite the entitlement he finds so irritating, Stein acknowledges millennials also have the potential to be our saviors. He just might have that part correct, but […]

Student loan debt is increasingly the front-and-center concern in the lives of young Americans. As college graduates are looking to take the next step in beginning their career, many are saddled with large amounts of debt. Although there are plans to help new graduates pay student loans, many have grown wary of borrowing money for […]

Can you put a price tag on your health? Around the world, people are being denied life-saving medicines simply because they can’t afford the cost of medicine. But there is a growing movement to resist the power of the big pharmaceutical companies that currently control the global medicine market through monopolies and patents.You might have […]

Northeastern University assistant professor David Kimbro, a wild oyster ecology expert formerly with Florida State’s Coastal and Marine Laboratory, called Alligator Harbor a “marginal habitat” for oysters. Because of its lack of direct freshwater sources and reduced flows into the bay, salinity has steadily increased in the last five years. “There aren’t many things as […]

“The demand for family housing in Boston’s core neighborhoods is growing and it will continue to grow,” said Barry Bluestone, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. “But the supply of that housing is almost impossible to augment at prices that these families can afford.”  

Walter Robinson, director of the First Amendment Center at Northeastern University, hailed the ruling. “What a delight to know that Judge Stearns recognized this for what it was: an outrageous attempt to intimidate a newspaper whose sole intent was to inform the public,” Robinson said.

If you’re looking for the future of journalism, the New Haven Independent is a good place to start. That is the finding of media observer Dan Kennedy, whose new book “The Wired City: Reimagining Journalism and Civic Life in the Post-Newspaper Age” was recently published by University of Massachusetts Press. “I had originally intended on […]