Expanding into
Massachusetts
By Will Collette
Our friends and
colleagues at EcoRI just announced
their expansion of coverage into Massachusetts. We salute them on this move and
hope it is successful.
EcoRI – and now EcoMass – is a unique
and invaluable resource. We have been sharing content with them for quite a
while now since they and Progressive Charlestown share very similar interests
and broad, progressive environmental positions. It’s also nice to see them
cover issues of direct interest to Charlestown (click here,
here
and here
for examples).
EcoRI is a 501(c)(3) organizations and
welcomes donors. They recently ran a matching grant drive to sign up “sustaining:
members (i.e. people who commit to donating a regular monthly amount) and I was
glad to become one of them. Donations
are tax deductible.
Anyway, my
congratulations to the crew at Eco…who knows what next. Live long and prosper.
Continue reading for their official announcement.
“Massachusetts and Rhode Island share the same
border and are linked by a common watershed; our economies overlap; many live
in one state and work in the other, so it made sense to expand our coverage to
include the Bay State,” ecoRI/ecoMass News executive director Frank Carini
said.
“Now our Massachusetts neighbors can look forward to news and features on
topics such as urban farming, biking, the green economy, composting, marine
stewardship and environmental justice.”
Founded by husband-wife team Frank Carini, a
veteran journalist who has worked at The Cincinnati Post, half a dozen
Boston-area weeklies and The Newport Daily News, and Joanna Detz, a writer and
graphic designer, ecoRI News has been featured in the Columbia Journalism
Review and is recognized by other national and regional media organizations as
a trusted source of environmental news. ecoMass News plans to grow its presence
in the Bay State by employing the same grassroots efforts ecoRI News used to
gain a following in Rhode Island.
“We like to think of our brand as ‘slow
journalism,’ and like slow food, it takes time to grow, but ultimately it is a
better and more sustainable product,” Carini said.
While the organization, which currently has
four full-time employees, plans to keep its headquarters in Providence, it
hopes someday to have a bureau in Boston.
