, who had been covering both Newton and Brookline for the past few months has moved out of state. It is not known if Nick will be replaced.
Nick Greenhalgh, we hardly knew ya
by Greg Reibman | Aug 20, 2018 | Newton TAB | 9 comments
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At this point why don’t they just go the free labor route (as the Globe does) and assign stories to journalism students in college or high school?
Will the last TAB staff member to leave Newton please turn off the lights.
I agree with Michael about leveraging the local colleges and the high schools. It could be a really great opportunity to add even more value to the school system in Newton and give kids even more real world reporting experience. I also think there is opportunity for non-professionals to submit articles to the TAB around some of the events and issues our city deals with every day. There are certainly enough folks engaged on blogs and who attend city meetings and gatherings to get some critical and unbiased reporting isn’t there?
High school and college interns can be useful to round out community coverage but you really need professional, trained journalists to appropriately cover a community and they deserve and need to be compensated. There is no substitute.
@Greg, agreed. But those days are gone alas. I despise what these awful companies have done to local media assets, but the fact is that the market for advertising-driven suburban news content doesn’t exist anymore. I’d sooner see some experiments in nonprofit coverage than have the current charade continue ad infinitum.
High school or college students typically get credit for their journalism internships. An internship is practically worthless without a strong editor or reporter dedicating time and energy to providing guidance to interns.
It’s hard to imagine the TAB meeting those requisites anymore.
What’s the solution then? Hope that a billion dollar company with 800 other crap publications suddenly decides to start caring about local journalism?
The independent Watertown News (http://www.watertownmanews.com/) has good local-only coverage. Maybe its editor/owner could help Newton build a similar news outlet. The Watertown Tab (http://watertown.wickedlocal.com/) is even more awful than the Newton Tab – just one local story on its website…about parking.