| | | | | | | | | | | Viewpoint: Nonprofits and for-profits should collaborate | | | | Profits vs. prophets. That is a simplistic way to view the difference between for-profit businesses and nonprofit organizations. The purpose of a business is to make money for investors, while the purpose of a nonprofit is altruistic, if not spiritual: to help people in need. | | | | Read more >> | | | | Spectrum names two new board members | | | | Cheryl Gallant, of Coghlin Companies Inc. in Worcester, is one of two new board members at Spectrum Health Systems. | | | | Read more >> | | | | Drug trafficking conviction would bar employment in legal pot industry | | | | People with a prior conviction for trafficking in drugs other than marijuana will be barred from working in jobs that include access to the plant in the newly-legal marijuana industry, a decision made after about an hour of tense between state pot regulators. | | | | Read more >> | | | | | | Like us on Facebook for our latest business news |
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| | | | Question of the Week | | | | Tuesday we asked: New York media company GateHouse Media, the parent company of the Worcester Telegram and Gazette and the MetroWest Daily News, will purchase Millbury-based Holden Landmark Corp., which includes Worcester Magazine, the Landmark in Holden, baystateparent magazine, Grafton News, Millbury-Sutton Chronicle and Leominster Champion. GateHouse's move follows Denver-based Digital First Media, the parent company of the Fitchburg Sentinel and Enterprise, buying the Boston Herald. | | Has media consolidation by a handful of large corporations impacted local journalism? | | | The newspapers as we knew them are a thing of the past. The internet, podcasts and cable TV have changed how news is delivered. The biggest losers are local news stories. Small town community weeklies are filling the void that large company subscription based papers no longer fill. News has been replaced by biased journalism. There is no more true news. | | See All Comments >> | | |
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