May 8, 2026 Submitted By Indivisible Hingham Hull
Indivisible Hingham Hull is honored to host Candy and Robert Thomson on May 13, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm at our regular monthly meeting, Hingham Community Center, 70 South Street, Hingham. All are welcome!
Candy and Robert Thomson are journalists who will discuss the current state of the legacy media and the dramatic changes over the past decades: how did they happen, where we are now, and what we–as news consumers–can do to inform ourselves in this fast-paced age of information/disinformation.
The discussion about today’s news scene will touch on all aspects of coverage, from the global sweep of the New York Times and the BBC to the more focused regional coverage of the Boston Globe and WBUR to the vital news coverage of Main Street by outlets like the Hingham Anchor and the Hull Times. Taken together, these organizations strive to keep their readers informed and their communities vibrant.
Candy Thomson graduated from Emerson College and worked in radio news and small newspapers in New Hampshire for more than a decade. Candy was deputy business editor at the Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Time in Connecticut, before moving to the Baltimore Sun as a copy editor, features writer, local bureau chief, and sports reporter and columnist. She covered five Olympics.
Robert Thomson began his career at Staten Island’s The Register and later worked for the daily Reporter Dispatch in the suburbs north of New York City and at Newsday, in New York City and Long Island. In 1988, he got an editing job at the City Desk of The Washington Post. Ended his ink-stained work life as a local columnist for The Washington Post in 2017.
Indivisible Hingham Hull welcomes anyone from anywhere who shares our mission to restore our country to a functioning democratic republic. We seek to energize public discourse, inspire civic engagement, and prevent the silence spiral. We are not affiliated with any political party.