Expansion

…to 101.7 FM to ClearChannel, and WFNX switched to online streaming. The streaming service was short-lived, as it ended on March 19, 2013 after the announcement that The Phoenix would…

Significance

…Phoenix classical-music writer Lloyd Schwartz was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism. The Boston Phoenix went online in 1994 featuring 90% of the print edition. In addition to providing audiovisual…

http://www Content

When Northeastern University acquired the Phoenix Media/Communications Group’s websites, they were functionally obsolete. In order to preserve content, PHX websites were captured by Northeastern University staff using the Internet Archives’…

Archived Websites

…material that has been published since the inception of The Phoenix website in 1994. http://thephoenix.com New link: https://wayback.archive-it.org/1981/*/http://thephoenix.com http://providence.thephoenix.com New link: https://wayback.archive-it.org/1981/*/http://providence.thephoenix.com http://stuffboston.com New link: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1981/20160628060955/http://www.stuffboston.com/ http://www.worcesterphoenix.com/ New link: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1981/20160627193702/http://www.worcesterphoenix.com/…

Phoenix Beginnings

The Phoenix Media/Communications Group (PMCG) originated on September 15, 1965, when Joe Hanlon, a former editor at MIT’s student newspaper, created a four-page single-sheet arts and entertainment insert to publish…

Donation to NU

…text-​​searchable, so all that history lives on,” says Dan Kennedy, associate professor at Northeastern’s School of Journalism and a former Phoenix media columnist and nationally-​​known media commentator. Adds Wakeling, “As…

Phoenix Alumni

…still access and link your online material through the Internet Archive’s WayBack Machine. To do so, you’ll need to use the WayBack Machine to generate a stable URL. Follow the…

Archives & Special Collections

…for the Phoenix Media/Communications Group’s online, audio-visual and paper archives was an extremely easy one to make. Although out-of-scope, the Phoenix’s focus on local politics, underground or alternative causes, arts…

A Note From Carly Carioli

…the possession of Northeastern University, which has created a groundbreaking online portal to help preserve this historical trove of Boston news, politics, activism, culture, and counterculture. It’s rare that a…

Stephen M. Mindich

…on March 15, 2013, and the last edition was published online on March 22, 2013. In a statement, Mindich attributed the closure to radical changes in print media and advertising…