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An Ode to the (Now Digital) Boston Phoenix Newspaper
December 22, 2021
The Boston Phoenix had a good run.
From the early 1970s to the early 2010s, Boston’s largest alternative weekly newspaper documented Greater Boston with sharp, progressive-minded coverage. Its longform stories were a defining characteristic of the “alt-weekly” format, a much-loved newspaper genre that, with the decline of print advertising in recent decades, has all but vanished from the mediasphere—at least, in print form...