Don Seiffert: @donseiffert.bsky.social
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Managing editor of the Boston Business Journal. I cover local media. Live in #SalemMA. [email protected], find me at @donseiffert.bsky.social (he/him)
Salem, Mass.
Joined August 2008
Find me at @donseiffert.bsky.social
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#SalemMA, where 62% of voters went for Kamala Harris in 2024, lowers flag to half-staff in mourning for the assasination of #CharlieKirkshot
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My friend @CallieCrossley of @gbhnews is being inducted into the @NABJ Hall of Fame. I spoke with @SeiffertDon of the @BosBizJournal about working with her on "Beat the Press with Emily Rooney." Congratulations, Callie!
bizjournals.com
On Aug. 8, Callie Crossley will be inducted into the the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame at the organization’s 50th anniversary event in Cleveland.
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New: After months of fearing their jobs were on the chopping block, DMH case managers say they have struck a deal with the Healey administration to avert layoffs. #mapoli
statehousenews.com
After months of fearing their jobs were on the chopping block, Department of Mental Health case managers say they have struck a deal with the Healey administration to avert layoffs.
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NEW, from me: The @BostonGlobe has stopped the semi-annual reporting of its number of digital subscribers for the first time in at least the past decade.
bizjournals.com
The Boston Globe stops reporting digital subscriber numbers to AAM, citing advertiser feedback. Print circulation continues to decline.
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Here’s the #SalemMA @MarketBasket at 10:30 am Sunday. Seems emptier than usual on the first shopping weekend since CEO Arthur T. was placed on administrative leave. I’d be curious to see what others are like.
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.@CindyFriedmanMA on @MassGov plan to cut half the state’s case workers at @MassDMH: “The people that are DMH clients are the people who are the most vulnerable...if you help people by giving crisis management & then you take it away, they're going to go back to being in crisis."
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.@thermofisher has been dethroned after more than six years as the most valuable public company in Massachusetts. @bostonsci now holds that title. $TMO $BSX
bizjournals.com
Boston Scientific surpasses Thermo Fisher as Massachusetts' top public company, highlighting biotech challenges and medical device innovations.
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Congrats to former @BostInno reporter @samjmintz — you even got married in my hometown.
bostonglobe.com
Two young reporters at the Cape Cod Times began writing their own love story in 2015. They found their happy ending at their Peabody Essex Museum wedding in March.
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Re: second dead child from measles… Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s former vaccine chief, said responsibility for the death rests with Kennedy and his staff. Marks was forced out of the FDA after disagreements with Kennedy over vaccine safety. “This is the
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Good column and I appreciate the Wallace Stevens reference. @BostonGlobe
bostonglobe.com
‘This is a moral moment,’ he said in his 25-hour speech to the Senate. ‘It’s not left or right. It’s right or wrong.’
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The biggest companies in Massachusetts are tanking today. $TMO, which has the biggest market cap in the state, is down 6%. $BSX is down 8%. In total, the 100 largest Mass. public companies have lost nearly $300B today, on top of $63B yesterday.
bizjournals.com
Tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening spurred a historic stock market sell-off that erased more than $350 billion from the 100 largest public companies over two days.
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It's been a looooong time since I won a journalism award for a story I wrote, but last night a story from May 2024 won first place for Social Issues Feature in the annual @NENPA awards. The subject is personally meaningful to me: second-chance hiring.
bizjournals.com
The Boston Business Journal newsroom has been awarded with the General Excellence award — the highest regional journalism award for newspapers of its size — for the fourth year in a row by the New...
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"Perkins Coie, a law firm with Democratic ties, is fighting against President Trump's executive order that sought to cripple the firm. Despite losing some business, the firm's biggest clients and superstar lawyers are standing with it." @WSJ
wsj.com
The firm’s biggest clients—including Amazon and Boeing—are staying despite an executive order that targeted the firm, which has Democratic ties.
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.@TuftsUniversity president Sunil Kumar says at #BBJHigherEd event that the school has already lost USAID funding of research on infectious diseases that can go from animals to humans. "You would think that this was in the national interest, but it was ruled not to be."
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Jay Fitzgerald of @Hubblog appropriately questions why the @BostonGlobe has decided to encroach on the @BosBizJournal's longtime "Fast 50" list with its new "50 fastest growing companies in New England," coincidentally announced the same week.
hubblog.com
It’s not a big deal, but, as a former ink-stained-era wretch for both the BBJ and Globe, I find it curious the Globe has come out with its inaugural list of the 50 fastest growing companies in New …
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Anyone with the courage to put on a uniform and serve our country deserves our respect — no matter who you are, who you love or what you look like. While Donald Trump takes down photos of American heroes, we are telling their stories.
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RIP Max Frankel, executive editor of The New York Times from 1986 to 1994, who previously won a Pulitzer for international reporting. @spj_newengland interviewed him just a month ago about his journalism career.
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