A four-year old, very green, Providence start-up business is expanding into Massachusetts. Our friends and allies over at EcoRI News are opening a second site called ecoMass News.
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.”
So fittingly, ecoMass News kicks off its coverage with a story headlined: “Mass. and R.I. Work Together for Mutual Benefit”
Here’s the full press release about the new site:
Since 2009, ecoRI News has been the leading source of environmental news for Rhode Island. Now its fourth year, the nonprofit news organization is expanding its coverage to include Massachusetts, with the launch of ecoMass News (www.ecoMass.org), an initiative dedicated to reporting on Massachusetts environmental and social-justice news.
“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.