Despite the fact that they are in financial distress — or perhaps because of that distress — both the Boston Globe and the Washington Post are experimenting with some interesting new formats for finding and displaying the news. Read more »
The Boston Globe can be seen as a bellwether for metropolitan newspapers. Its digital strategy so far appears to be off to a slow start but some see more to the story. Read more »
For years, newspaper subscribers who go on vacation have donated their papers to classrooms where students would do things like cut out pictures. Now, Boston readers will be donating iPads instead. Read more »
New York magazine set the media world a-chatter this weekend with a swirling tale of intrigue and in-fighting at the New York Times.The article is plump with gossip but also drives home the crucial business challenges the Times must address sooner than later. Read more »
Nearly four years after the process began, the New York Times Co. finally has sold its remaining shares in the Green Monster, the New England Sports Network and other sports assets. Initial investment: $75 million. Final haul: $225 million. Read more »
For the next 12 days, readers can get free access to BostonGlobe.com by entering their email address. Read more »
One of the most unusual efforts to make money from a newspaper web site launches today in Boston, slightly less than a year after plans were… Read more »
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 fro… Read more »
The Boston Globe will join its sister paper The New York Times in charging for access to some online content beginning next year. The newspa… Read more »
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 pu… Read more »
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 retir… Read more »
Last spring, the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) threatened to shut down the Boston Globe unless unions agreed to $20 million in cuts. Despit… Read more »
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 Art… Read more »
Private equity firm Platinum Equity, which specializes in acquiring distressed companies, wants to add the Boston Globe to its newspaper hol… Read more »
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… Read more »
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 Newsp… Read more »
Holding your breath for word that potential buyers have actually submitted bids for the Boston Globe and sister paper Worcester Telegram & G… Read more »
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) hopes to sell off another New England newspaper, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, as part of a packa… Read more »
The Boston Globe and its largest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, have a tentative agreement that may go over better than the version that… Read more »
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 –… Read more »
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 Bos… Read more »
Boston Globe representatives insisted for days that Monday’s meeting between the paper and the Boston Newspaper Guild would be purely inform… Read more »
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 Gl… Read more »
A union pension fund manager has emerged as the first public suitor for the Boston Globe. Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. co… Read more »
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.’s response to Boston Globe reporters seeking his intervention to ward off a 23 percent wage cut boils down to one wor… Read more »
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 invest… Read more »
The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) said Tuesday that it will keep the Boston Globe open despite the Boston Newspaper Guild’s narrow vote aga… Read more »
The results are in earlier than expected: members of the Boston Newspaper Guild narrowly rejected a concession package worth $10 million dol… Read more »
Update: About 80 percent of the 690 editorial, advertising and circulation union members voted, narrowly rejecting the concessions. Details… Read more »
When the members of the Boston Newspaper Guild vote Monday whether or not to accept the deal with the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) that is… Read more »
