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Nancy Barnes Named Editor of The Boston Globe
-- Nancy Barnes, the chief news executive at National Public Radio, will join The Globe on February 1, 2023 as the newspaper's top editor. She will be the first woman to serve in the role, replacing Brian McGrory, who will step down after 10 years to become chair of the Boston University journalism department. Larry Edelman wrote at The Boston Globe on November 14, 2022: The Boston Globe names NPR news chief Nancy Barnes as its next editor
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, November 18, 2022

Boston Globe: One Day, 23 Pages of Death Notices
-- On May 3, 2020, the leading Boston newspaper ran 23 pages of the paid ads written and submitted by families and funeral homes. The carnage of Covid-19 weighs on newspaper obituaries editors, including Bryan Marquard at the Globe. Elahe Izadi wrote the story at the Washington Post on May 13, 2020: As the pandemic forces us to abandon rituals of grief, obituary pages are where we mourn
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, May 15, 2020

Boston Globe Grows Online Subscribers
-- The leading newspaper in New England now has more online than print subscribers. During the first half of 2019, online subs increased to 112,700 while print subs declined from 108,719 to 98,978. Don Seiffert wrote the story for the Boston Business Journal on May 20, 2019: The Boston Globe now has more online subscribers than print ones
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, June 14, 2019

Free Press Defense Angers Trump
-- August 16, 2018: Over 350 American newspapers have joined the Boston Globe today in writing editorials defending the freedom of the press. President Donald Trump quickly responded by tweet, using one of his least favorite words: "Now the Globe is in COLLUSION with other papers on free press." Trump has repeatedly tweeted attacks on the news media, including "the real...

New York Times Company Sells Boston Globe, Losing $1 Billion
-- August 3, 2013: The Boston newspaper is being sold to John W. Henry, the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox, for $70 million. The New York Times Company will take a huge loss on the sale, having bought the Globe in 1993 for $1.1 billion from the Taylor family. During the last ten years, John Henry has become a major investor in professional sports. His Fenway Sports Group owns the Boston Red Sox,...

Brian McGrory promoted to Editor at The Boston Globe
-- McGrory, 51, is a Boston native who has worked at the Globe for 23 years. He will start in the new role immediately, replacing Martin Baron, who has just left to become editor of The Washington Post. McGrory will report to Globe publisher Christopher M. Mayer. The Globe reported the news on December 20, 2012 in the story Brian McGrory named Globe's new editor, written by Casey Ross. From the...

Boston Globe Admits Lifting Material from WBUR FM 90.9 Contributor
-- On August 24, 2012, the Boston Globe issued an editor's note -- which itself was later corrected -- admitting that a Globe editorial used material that was lifted from a column by Todd Domke, a Republican commentator for WBUR FM 90.9: "An Aug. 17 editorial on Vice President Joe Biden's comments on bank regulations contained some similarities in phrasing and structure to an opinion piece by Todd Domke on...

Reporters Booted from Mitt Romney Q&A Session
-- Following a speech to business leaders in which he criticized President Obama's handling of the U.S. economy, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney lingered to take questions -- although none were fielded from reporters. According to Mitt Romney criticizes President Obama over economy, reporters attending the event, which was held at the Newseum in Washington DC, were escorted from the...

News Organizations Jump Into Race for New Domain Names
-- By this time next year, web addresses will likely look much different than the usual assortment of .com's, .org's and .net's. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages Internet domains, announced that it had received a couple thousand applications for new domains. The Boston Globe was among the many groups paying the $185,000 fee to...

Online Traffic Increases at Newspaper Sites, Report Says
-- Newspapers enjoyed an increase in web site traffic in the first quarter of 2012 of 4.4% in adult unique visitors (113 million) and of 10% in adult average daily visitors (25 million). That's according to information released on April 25, 2012 by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), which obtained its data from comScore. What's more, newspapers saw a 7% increase in unique visitors ages 21 to...

Boston Globe to Occupy Boston: Don't Use Our Name
-- The Boston Globe, according to its own published report dated October 18, 2011, notified a group of Occupy movement protestors that it will not tolerate their plans to start a newspaper, called Occupy Boston Globe. In Globe warns Occupy Boston on trademark, also dated October 18, Dan Kennedy of the Media Nation blog pointed out that the occupiers are within their legal rights: "The Globe's...

The Boston Globe's Brand New, Not Redesigned, Web Site
-- The Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard has a lot of questions about the Boston Globe's new web site, which the Lab describes as "well designed, has a clear personality, and features great content. But is it what Boston readers want?" More from the Lab's report, filed September 12, 2011: "...the Globe is creating a separate BostonGlobe.com that will contain primarily the same stories that run in...

Boston Globe Installs Newsroom Twitter Board
-- Nicknamed the Information Radiator, the bank of 6 computer monitors is an experimental installation meant to expedite the flow of information. As the Nieman Journalism Lab reported on August 2, 2011, the radiator is ideally meant to be a computerized version of the old Teletype machine, which automatically regurgitated stories from hither and yon for use (and re-writing) by a newspaper's...

-- April 15, 2011 -- Amanda Katz is now deputy editor at the Boston Globe, in charge of the newspaper's Ideas section. She is currently a contributing authors columnist there and writes the Bibliophiles column.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, April 15, 2011

Taylors Back Local Bid to Buy Boston Globe
-- Former executives offer funds, advice, the newspaper reported on January 21, 2011: "A Wellesley businessman who wants to buy The Boston Globe has gained financial backing from two members of the Taylor family, which owned and published the newspaper for generations. Former Globe executives Benjamin and Stephen Taylor said they will provide money and advice to Aaron Kushner, a...

-- November 29, 2010 -- Melissa Schorr is now assistant editor at The Boston Globe Magazine. She was previously a freelance writer.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, December 1, 2010

Agrella Returns to Boston Globe to Become Boston.com Editor
-- The Globe announced (via an internal memo posted by Romenesko) on November 19, 2010: "I'm excited to share the great news that our old colleague Ronald Agrella has agreed to return to the fold as the next editor of Boston.com. Ron led the features section of the website to national prominence, receiving Editor & Publisher EPpy awards in 2009 for the arts and entertainment and Things to Do sections....

State of Massachusetts Tells Man He May Be Jailed for Releasing Data...Given to Him by the State
-- Boston.com, the web site of the Boston Globe, reported on November 11, 2010: "Governor Deval Patrick's administration told a local website operator he could face jail time for publishing information that the state provided under an open-records request. It is unclear whether officials would or could follow through with the threat to Michael Morisy, cofounder of MuckRock (muckrock.com), a website devoted to open records. But the unusual...

What's the Boston Globe Worth, Anyway? Try $120 Million
-- Forbes.com, the web site of Forbes Magazine, reported on October 28, 2010: "Crunch all those numbers, and what's the Globe worth? "I would say no more than $120 million," says media appraiser Kevin Kamen. "And I'm being very generous. I would say it's worth, realistically, $75 million." The extra $45 million, he says, is based on the assumption that whoever buys it must have an notion of how to make...

Local Group Says It Wants To Buy The Boston Globe
-- The newspaper's web site, Boston.com, reported on October 20, 2010: "A group of more than a dozen investors and management specialists will offer to buy The Boston Globe from its long-time owner, The New York Times Company, the leader of the group said. Aaron Kushner, an entrepreneur who owns Marian Heath Greeting Cards Inc. in Wareham, said his group, called 2100 Trust, will soon make an...

Boston Globe to Offer Two Websites: One Free, One Pay
-- The newspaper, which is owned by The New York Times Company, reported on September 30, 2010: "The Boston Globe next year will split its digital news brands into two distinct websites, keeping Boston.com free while establishing a subscription-only pay site, BostonGlobe.com, which will feature all the content produced by the newspaper's journalists, publisher Christopher M. Mayer said today. The...

New York Times Co. CEO: Prepare to Pay for Online Globe
-- The Boston Business Journal reported on September 22, 2010: "The Boston Globe could announce by the end of this year a plan to charge readers for some of its online content in a bid to boost revenue. That's according to executives at New York Times Co., the parent of the Globe. When asked about paid models and iPad subscriptions for Globe content, NYT Co. CEO Janet Robinson had this to say at...

-- August 18, 2010 -- Denise Taylor is no longer arts editor at the Boston Globe. She is now the Somerville, Mass. editor for Patch.com.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, August 22, 2010

Extra! Extra! Can Art Save Newspapers?
-- The Boston Globe reported on August 20, 2010: "Enough with the experts and pundits debating the virtue of printed vs. online newspapers. Enough with discussions of paywalls, digital news hubs, readers' online habits and advertising revenue. I'm no web guru or news industry consultant. Here's the real argument for print journalism: Art. There. I said it. Artists need newspapers....

Boston Globe Hires VP for Digital Content
-- The newspaper reported on August 10, 2010: "The Boston Globe today appointed a veteran of new media and digital journalism to expand the newspaper's reach beyond its print and web products to mobile phones, digital readers and other devices. Jeff Moriarty, 39, an executive at the information website About.com, will join the Globe in September in a newly created position, vice...

Journalists Describe Just About Everybody as "Embattled"
-- The Boston Globe ran this editorial on June 23, 2010: "BP CEO Tony Hayward is embattled. If you haven't heard his name and that adjective together, you have managed somehow to avoid more than 200 newspapers and numerous radio and TV reports. By now, Hayward's parents might wonder whether their son has legally changed his first name to "Embattled." Hayward is not alone. (More on that later.) This...

Boston Globe Reportedly to Assist with Film About Clergy Abuse
-- Deadline.com reported on April 30, 2010: "The producers intend to frame the movie in the vein of All The President's Men. One of the planned film's hooks is that some of the journalists are themselves Catholic and were conflicted as they researched and wrote their stories. This journalism angle seems a fascinating way to approach the topic. And, interestingly, the Boston Globe investigative team was headed...

Boston Scientific Bars Media from Shareholders Meeting
-- The Boston Globe reported on May 10, 2010: "Boston Scientific Corp., which posted a $1.6 billion first-quarter loss and is facing problems on multiple fronts, is barring media from its shareholders meeting tomorrow morning. The annual meeting in Boston will be the first since J. Raymond Elliott took over last July as president and chief executive of the Natick medical device company. The company...

Boston Globe Expands Sunday Editorial Section, Adds Discussion Forum
-- May 7, 2010: The Boston Globe will expand its Sunday editorial section by adding some of the region's most important thought leaders to its line-up of columnists and adding a new readers' forum to include multiple views on the major issues of the day. The Globe's expanded editorial page will begin May 9. Joining the Globe's op-ed lineup will be Larry Harmon and Joanna Weiss, whose columns will appear along with...

oston Globe's All-Out Effort in Haiti 'Makes Eminent Good Sense'
-- DanKennedy.net reported on April 29, 2010: "In an era of downsized newsrooms and an increased emphasis on local coverage, newspapers like the Boston Globe must pick their spots in covering stories beyond their home base. Thus the Globe's extensive, ongoing coverage of the Haitian earthquake and its aftermath makes eminent good sense. As health and science editor Gideon Gil said last night at a...

Boston Globe Publisher Gets $1.4 Million Exit Parachute
-- The Boston Business Journal reported on January 14, 2010: "The New York Times Co. said retired Boston Globe publisher P. Steven Ainsley stands to receive roughly $1.4 million in payments and vested stock compensation as well as a handful of tax and financial planning benefits as part of his Dec. 31 separation from the company. And that's not including the $2.7 million in retirement benefits...

Boston Globe's Union Negotiator To Retire
-- Media Life Magazine reported on December 22, 2009: "Greg Thornton, senior vice president of employee relations at the Boston Globe, is retiring from the paper after 22 years following his dismissal from the union for financial violations. Thornton was the Globe's main negotiator in its recent talks with the Boston Newspaper Guild."
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, December 22, 2009

Current Boston Globe city editor Jennifer Peter has been appointed Deputy Managing Editor/Local News, replacing Brian McCrory, who will return to his former position of writing a regular column for the Globe.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder Colorado USA, December 14, 2009

Boston Globe's Largest Union Boots Boss
-- The newspaper reported on December 2, 2009: "Daniel Totten was found guilty today by a jury of five union members of the most serious charges levied against him and was ordered expelled from the Boston Newspaper Guild, according to Guild officials. The charges included signing a check in violation of union bylaws, after Totten signed the name of another union official to his own...

Machinists Union Takes 9% Pay Cut In Agreement With Boston Globe
-- The newspaper announced on November 30, 2009: "The new labor agreement covers the years 2008, 2009 and 2010. The vote reverses an earlier vote turn down last June of a similar agreement. The new contract is expected to provide savings of $350,000 per year. To achieve the above annual savings, the new agreement provides a 9% pay cut, loss of a week's vacation, four unpaid vacation furlough days,...

New Editor Reinvents Boston Globe 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...

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.
Posted by Mondo Times editors, Boulder, Colorado USA, November 1, 2009

New York Times Company Decides Not to Sell Boston Globe
-- 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...

Bids Made to Buy The Boston Globe
-- 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....

Deadline for Offers to Buy Boston Globe Set by New York Times Company
-- The New York Times Co. reportedly set a bid deadline for the Boston Globe, the newspaper reported on June 26, 2009: "The New York Times Co., through its investment banker, has asked potential buyers of The Boston Globe to submit preliminary bids by July 8, according to people briefed on the sale process. In a letter to parties that have expressed interest in buying New England's largest daily, investment...

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