{"id":2318,"date":"2009-07-16T10:40:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T14:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2009-07-16T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T14:40:06","slug":"bay-state-banner-gets-reprieve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/07\/16\/bay-state-banner-gets-reprieve\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay State Banner gets reprieve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Boston&#8217;s only newspaper aimed specifically at the African-American community, the <em>Bay State Banner<\/em>, was to have been shut down last week for lack of finances.\u00a0\u00a0 But a group of a dozen investors have been <a title=\"tapped\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/articles\/2009\/07\/16\/investors_step_up_to_save_bay_state_banner\/\" target=\"_blank\">tapped <\/a>to keep the 44-year-old paper in business.\u00a0 College of Communication Dean <a title=\"Tom Fiedler\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/about\/faculty\/tom_fiedler.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Fiedler<\/a>, a former executive editor of the <em>Miami Herald<\/em>, can discuss the impact of newspapers on communities of color.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Contact Tom Fiedler, 617-353-3488, <a href=\"mailto:tfiedler@bu.edu\">tfiedler@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston&#8217;s only newspaper aimed specifically at the African-American community, the Bay State Banner, was to have been shut down last week for lack of finances.\u00a0\u00a0 But a group of a dozen investors have been tapped to keep the 44-year-old paper in business.\u00a0 College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler, a former executive editor of the Miami [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1431,1228],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}