Media Nation

Lara Salahi.

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Just a day after CommonWealth Beacon employees announced they were forming a union, the board of MassINC — the nonprofit that publishes CommonWealth — has voted in favor of recognition.

Eileen O’Connor, who is chair of the MassINC board, has passed along a statement about the union organizing drive that employees of CommonWealth Beacon have announced.

Employees of CommonWealth Beacon, a digital nonprofit news organization that covers statewide politics and public policy, has announced a union organizing drive, according to a statement that hit my inbox a short time ago.

Photo (cc) 2026 by Dan Kennedy.

Donald Trump Jr.

If you take a look at Mass Daily News right now, you’ll see a lead story about nearly $50,000 in campaign donations from Eversource executives to Gov.

Samuel Johnson When it comes to getting paid for my work, I am fond of quoting Samuel Johnson: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.”

Clay Wirestone ignores the cookies.

Skydance chief executive David Ellison, right, and his father, Larry Ellison.

Rob Curley, Michael McCarter and David Dunn-Rankin discuss the future of newspaper opinion content at the 2025 America’s Newspapers Mega-Conference in Orlando.

Photo (cc) 2019 by Dan Kennedy.

From “NewsMatch at 10: A Decade of Impact.”

Click here or on image to watch on Contrarian Boston.

Walter Cronkite in 1976.

Sudanese refugees seeking food aid in neighboring Chad.

The Blade building in Toledo, Ohio.

David Ellison, right, and his billionaire father, Larry Ellison, are now calling the shots at two major news organizations — CBS News and CNN.

Margaret Sullivan.

Photo via RawPixel.

Illustration via the U.S.

Old store in Nelson County, Va., a focus on Nick Mathews’ new book, “Deserted.”

Illustration by Field Nine Group / CommonWealth Beacon Mystified by that inscrutable guide to this fall’s ballot questions sent out by the secretary of state’s office?

Click here or on image to watch “Beat the Press” on Contrarian Boston. “60 Minutes” made its fall debut on Sunday, and so did “Beat the Press with Emily Rooney.”

The New York Times has published a comprehensive examination of Donald Trump’s attempts to stifle freedom of speech and of the press.

I’m passing along this email I received from PR and corporate communications at USA Today Co. in response to my post about the newspaper chain’s deal with AI surveillance company Palantir, which has drawn protests from union employees.

Firefighters at Ground Zero on Sept. 19, 2001.

BU’s College of Communication.

ICE agents on the streets of Los Angeles in 2025.

If you’re wondering why a lone juror who may have ignored the law about reasonable doubt could lead to a mistrial in the case of Lindsay Clancy, a landmark verdict that advanced press freedom 290 years ago provides some important background.

Photo (cc) 2007 by Josh Hallett.

The California Statehouse in Sacramento.

Sen.

This is not a defense of using AI to write.

Photo (cc) 2014 by Jay Phagan.

The New York Times lost a libel case Thursday for the first time in more than 60 years.