Boston Globe

Mondo Times editors    Boulder Colorado USA

Posted at 3:21pm on Saturday, November 7th, 2009

New Editor Reinvents Globe's Editorial Page

The Boston Phoenix reported on November 6, 2009:

"Readers have received a bevy of cues that, on Peter Canellos’s watch, the paper’s op-ed section will be marked by sharper rhetorical elbows and a contrarian streak that just might challenge the long-standing conflation of the Globe with knee-jerk liberalism.

Globe bashers may find this implausible. Of late, however, Globe editorials have panned the Boston Teachers Union and ripped President Barack Obama’s recent foray into economic protectionism. And the paper’s August 27 editorial on Ted Kennedy’s death began with the following provocative assertion: “Ted Kennedy was not a great man.”

The full story:
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/News/92474-Difference-of-opinion/

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 11:52pm on Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Boston Globe publisher P. Steven Ainsley will leave the job at the end of 2009. Ainsley will be replaced by Christopher M. Mayer, the newpaper's senior vice president for circulation and operations.

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 1:16pm on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

The New York Times Company has decided not to sell the Boston Globe. Globe staff writer Beth Healy reported the story on October 14, 2009:

"The New York Times Co. said it has decided not to sell The Boston Globe, saying the paper’s financial performance had “significantly improved” in recent months.

The company had been exploring a sale of New England’s largest newspaper and had received two bids to buy the Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, which it also owns. The Times Co. said it is continuing to assess "strategic alternatives" for the Worcester paper.

Times Co. executives had said they may not sell the Globe -- and the swift decision to take the paper off the market less than a week after bids were due -- may reflect that the offers were too low. It was unknown what the final bids were but in a preliminary round each suitor offered about $35 million for the Globe and the T&G, plus the assumption of $59 million in pension liabilities. The Times Co. had purchased the Globe for $1.1 billion in 1993, and the T&G for $296 million in 2000."

The full story:
http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/10/nyt_terminates.html

Mondo Times editors    Boulder, Colorado USA

Posted at 4:37pm on Friday, July 31st, 2009

Two Boston groups have made early bids to buy the Boston Globe, the newspaper reported on July 31, 2009:

"Two Boston groups submitted preliminary bids yesterday to buy The Boston Globe to meet a deadline set by owner The New York Times Co., according to people with knowledge of the offers.

One group is led by Boston Celtics co-owner and Bain Capital executive Stephen G. Pagliuca and Jack Connors, the chairman of Partners HealthCare and a former advertising mogul. The other is led by Stephen E. Taylor, a former Globe executive and member of the family that sold the Globe to the Times Co. in 1993 for $1.1 billion.

Under an auction set up by the Times Co., interested bidders had until yesterday to sketch out plans for the newspaper and its website, Boston.com."

The full story:
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2009/07/31/two_local_groups_offer_early_bids_to_buy_globe/