Saying Goodbye - Was: Nightcap

[Donna Halper]

At 12:02 AM 1/4/2009, Blaine Thompson wrote:

>I know Lewis Lazare at the Sun-Times and Phil Rosenthal at the Tribune
>are trying to cover the beat, but nobody did it as well as Robert
>Feder.

Who covers it in Boston these days?  For years, there were fulltime 
reporters like Bill Buchanan and Dean Johnson who focused on what was 
new in radio.  Susan Bickelhaupt of the Globe wasn't always accurate, 
but at least she covered the beat. Then, gradually, the Globe cut 
back.  Clea Simon did the radio reporting twice a week (she was kept 
as a part-time employee for ages) till October, and to my knowledge, 
there is nobody covering that beat now.  The Herald does have Jessica 
Heslam doing the radio reporting, but she is very limited by the 
small number of words she is allotted for the column.  Dean Johnson 
wrote a much longer and more in-depth column when he was still 
there.  But I guess the newspapers in Boston don't feel that radio is 
that important any more.