More than a year after The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) decided the Boston Globe was worth more inside the company than it could make from a sale, a group of investors wants to buy the paper and the rest of the New England Media group. That includes Boston.com…

The Boston Globe will join its sister paper The New York Times in charging for access to some online content beginning next year. The newspaper says that it is launching a new paid site, BostonGlobe.com, which will include “all news and feature stories, commentary, analysis, photographs, and graphics published in…

The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is two-for-two when it comes to selling properties in the New England market: two papers for sale, two pulled off the market. First the company halted sales efforts for the Boston Globe, now the company is taking the Worcester Telegram & Gazette off…

Scant weeks after the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) said the Boston Globe is no longer for sale comes the news that Steven Ainsley is retiring at the end of a very tough year. The NYTCo vet has been publisher of the Globe since 2006, following his stint as…

Last spring, the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) threatened to shut down the Boston Globe unless unions agreed to $20 million in cuts. Despite pleas to get involved as the Newspaper Guild struggled with its response—eventually resolved—NYC Chairman Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and CEO Janet Robinson stayed away. Today the…

The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) has gone public with efforts to sell the Boston Globe and the rest of the New England Media Group but Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., is staying away from absolutes about an actual sale. In his first interview on the subject, Sulzberger told the Globe:…

Private equity firm Platinum Equity, which specializes in acquiring distressed companies, wants to add the Boston Globe to its newspaper holdings, the paper reported today. Sources tell the Globe the bid for the New England Media Group is $35 million, plus the assumption of $59 million in pension liabilities from…

After playing coy for weeks—despite reports in its own papers and point-blank questions to its execs—the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) is finally admitting that the Boston Globe, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and their websites are for sale. From the 10-Q issued after today’s markets closed: “The New…

The Boston Globe sale process can start in earnest now that the paper’s largest union finally has agreed to a new deal. Members of the Newspaper Guild voted by a wide 366-to-179 margin to accept a new package worth $10 million in cuts to pay and benefits, part of the…

Holding your breath for word that potential buyers have actually submitted bids for the Boston Globe and sister paper Worcester Telegram & Gazette to the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Co.? You can stop now unless you’re trying for an endurance record that lasts indefinitely. The company’s banker Goldman Sachs…

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) hopes to sell off another New England newspaper, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, as part of a package effort to sell the Boston Globe, according to a letter sent to potential bidders by the banker Goldman Sachs. NYT got a copy of it…

The Boston Globe and its largest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, have a tentative agreement that may go over better than the version that failed narrowly two weeks ago. According to a statement from the paper, the new agreement saves the same amount of money and does away with layoff…

Hoping to minimize the pain of a 23 percent pay cut, the Boston Newspaper Guild has set July 20 as the date for a vote on a new contract—despite the lack of even a preliminary agreement with the Boston Globe.The move comes after the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT)…

Despite 26-plus hours of talk—on top of the endless hours from the last go round—the search continues for a resolution between the Boston Globe and its largest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, following last week’s failed concession vote. Representatives for the two started the marathon Monday in what was supposed…

Boston Globe representatives insisted for days that Monday’s meeting between the paper and the Boston Newspaper Guild would be purely informational, focusing on the imposition of a 23 percent wage cut on union members following the defeat of a $10 million concessions package. Apparently, both sides got enough “information” to…

Live in Boston, have access to at least $100 million or so and like a good challenge? You, too, could be a possible bidder for the Boston Globe, the latest asset being shopped by the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) The latest three names to emerge come courtesy of…

A union pension fund manager has emerged as the first public suitor for the Boston Globe. Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. confirmed its interest to the Boston Herald, saying the Globe fits its investment profile and that is has been pursuing a purchase for about 10 weeks. The company, which…

Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.‘s response to Boston Globe reporters seeking his intervention to ward off a 23 percent wage cut boils down to one word: No. He feels their pain, he doesn’t like the results of the Boston Newspaper Guild’s vote but his hands are tied. In the e-mail posted by…

The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) has hired Goldman Sachs to manage a possible sale of the Boston Globe, according to the paper. The investment bank already reps the company in its efforts to sell its 17.75 percent stake in New England Sports Ventures, LLC, the company that owns…