By Dorie Clark

Press conferences used to be the ultimate showdown—newsmaker vs. reporter, mano-a-mano, cage-match style. But in recent years, they’ve become a paltry wisp of their former selves. Nowadays, you’re more likely to get political candidates scrambling off a bus with their pre-fabricated legions of sign-holding interns, hitting the steps of City Hall for a nice photo op—and giving a rousing speech to one reporter, some pigeons, and a homeless dude nearby (the exact scenario Boston Magazine teased Charlie Baker about during his recent “Had Enough?” bus tour)

By Ben Timmins

There’s a line from an episode of SuperNews, the satire cartoon on the cable network Current, which comes to mind whenever I talk about Twitter. The main character, frustrated with having to listen to people’s messages about minute and boring details, eventually cracks. “Twitter is nothing more than shouts into the darkness hoping someone is listening!” he says.

By Ben Timmins

It comes as no surprise that the national media is painted as having a liberal slant: a Google search for the terms “liberal media” nets 990,000 results, and critics have long blasted the media for supporting liberal causes. One would expect, then, that an industry facing financial turmoil would look to a traditionally liberal solution: government intervention. If recent backlash to a Federal Trade Commission report is any indication, that assertion couldn’t be more wrong.

By Dorie Clark

I don’t need to rule the whole planet—just the Globe. The Boston Globe, that is. As a former journalist, it’s a favorite parlor game among my media-savvy friends: What would we do to stop the freefall and inject a little mojo back into New England’s paper of record? Purging myself of sentimentality and whipping out the green eyeshades, here are my solutions:

By Colman M. Herman

Letting its ads creep into its content, the Boston Globe is trying to build a revenue stream from the comments its readers submit about online stories.