Romenesko

Boston Phoenix
Russel Pergament, who just launched BostonNOW, believes today’s bleak newspaper environment will actually work in his free daily's favor. "If you gotta be lean, highly disciplined, you put out, in my opinion, a paper that is more productive. And you survive," he says. Mark Jurkowitz tells Adam Reilly: "Russel’s strength may be on the business side, but on the editorial side, he had a real knack for the kind of populist journalism that everyone liked, whether it was covering health-code violations at local restaurants or publishing property values for every home in Newton."