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The Boston Globe
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 The December 30, 2005 front page of The Boston Globe |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | The New York Times Company |
| Editor | Martin Baron |
| Founded | 1872 |
| Headquarters | 135 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, Massachusetts 02205  United States |
| Circulation | 382,503 Daily 562,273 Sunday[1] |
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| Website: boston.com | |
The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and New England. Owned by The New York Times Company, the broadsheet Globe's local print rival is the tabloid Boston Herald.[2]
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The Globe was founded in 1872 by six Boston businessmen, led by Eben Jordan, who jointly invested $150,000. The first issue was published March 4, 1872 and cost four cents. It was originally a morning daily when it began Sunday publication in 1877. In 1878, The Globe started an afternoon edition called The Boston Evening Globe, which ceased publication in 1979.
The Globe was a private company until 1973 when it went public under the name Affiliated Publications. It continued to be managed by the descendants of Charles H. Taylor.
In 1993, The New York Times Company purchased Affiliated Publications for US$1.1 billion, making The Globe a wholly-owned subsidiary of The New York Times' parent.[3] The Jordan and Taylor families received substantial Times Company stock, but the last Taylor family members left management in 2000-2001.
Boston.com the online edition of Boston Globe was launched in 1995 [3].
In 1998, columnist Patricia Smith was forced to resign after it was discovered that she had fabricated people and quotations in several of her columns.[4] This raised questions of a double standard at the Globe, as Mike Barnicle, who is white (Smith is African-American), had been accused of the same offense without being punished. In August of that year, Barnicle was discovered to have copied material for a column from a George Carlin book, Brain Droppings. He was suspended for this offense, and his past columns were reviewed. In their review, the Globe editors found that Barnicle had fabricated a story about two cancer patients, and Barnicle was forced to resign.[5]
Globe reporters were an instrumental part of uncovering the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal in 2001-2003, especially in relation to Massachusetts churches. They were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their work, one of several the paper has received for its outstanding investigative journalism.
In the spring of 2005, the Globe retracted a story describing the events of a seal hunt near Halifax, Nova Scotia that took place on April 12, 2005. Written by freelancer Barbara Stewart, a former New York Times staffer, the article described the specific number of boats involved in the hunt and graphically described the killing of seals and the protests that accompanied it. In reality, weather had delayed the hunt, which had not yet begun the day the story had been filed, so the details were fabricated. [6][7]
The Globe is also credited with allowing Peter Gammons to start his Notes section on baseball, which has become a mainstay in all major newspapers nation wide. Gammons went on to become a member of the Baseball Writers Hall of Fame.
In 2007, Charlie Savage, whose reports on President Bush's use of signing statements made national news, won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
Today, The Globe now hosts 28 blogs covering a variety of topics including Boston sports, local politics and a blog made up of posts from the paper's opinion writers.[8]
Appearing in the Sunday paper almost every week is the Globe Magazine. Doug Most is the current editor.
As of August 6, 2006, the magazine has seen a new look. This new look consists of the cutting out of the Inspirations section and moving it into the Boston UnCommon section. It also adds departments such as Q/A and Pierced.
On October 23, 2006, the Boston Globe announced the publication of Design New England: The Magazine of Splendid Homes and Gardens. The glossy oversized magazine will publish six times per year.[9]
- Robin Abrahams writes Miss Conduct (see below)
- Doug Most, Editor
- Charlie Pierce is a staff writer
- Neil Swidey is a staff writer
- Tina Sutton writes The Clothes We Wear
Editor's Notes: Notes written by Doug Most that are relative to one of the features in that week's magazine. Letters: Reader's correspondence Q/A: A mini interview with a local person The Big Deal: A profiling of a transaction that recently took place Pierced: A column by Charlie Pierce Tails From the City: Heartwarming stories from Boston and elsewhere The Clothes We Wear: Style column Miss Conduct: An advice column focusing mainly on good manners and properness. The Globe Puzzle: A crossword puzzle Coupling: Essay about social chemistry. Usually pertaining to someone's love-life.
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- ^ 2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation (PDF). BurrellesLuce (2007-03-31). Retrieved on 2007-05-28.
- ^ Gavin, Robert. "Herald's circulation declines", The Boston Globe, 2005-11-08. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
- ^ Palmer, Thomas C., Jr. "Globe Sale Points to Newspapers' Strength". The Boston Globe, page A1, June 12, 1993.
- ^ O'Brien, Sinéad (September 1998). "Secrets And Lies". American Journalism Review.
- ^ O'Brien, Sinéad (September 1998). "For Barnicle, One Controversy Too Many". American Journalism Review.
- ^ Kurtz, Howard (2005-04-16). "Boston Globe Admits Freelancer's Story Included Fabrications". Washington Post: C01.
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- ^ New York Times Company (2006-10-23). Boston Globe Media Publishes Premiere Issue of Design New England: The Magazine of Splendid Homes and Gardens. Press release.
- Official website
- Boston Globe history
- Boston Globe blogs
- "Squaring the Boston Globe", a blog usually critical of the Boston Globe
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Corporate officers: Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. (COB) · Janet L. Robinson (President & CEO) · Michael Golden · James Follo · Martin A. Nisenholtz · David K. Norton · Kenneth A. Richieri · Hussain Ali-Khan · R. Anthony Benten · Rhonda L. Brauer · Philip A. Ciuffo · Jennifer C. Dolan · Robert Kraft · Ann S. Kraus · James C. Lessersohn · Catherine J. Mathis · Stuart P. Stoller · David A. Thurm · Michael Zimbalist · Laurena L. Emhoff · Scott Heekin-Canedy · Bill Keller · Gail Collins · Michael Oreskes · Serge Schmemann · Richard J. Daniels · Mary Jacobus · Martin Baron · Renée Loth · P. Steven Ainsley · Brenda C. Barnes · Raul E. Cesan · Lynn G. Dolnick · William E. Kennard · James M. Kilts · David E. Liddle · Ellen R. Marram · Thomas Middelhoff · Janet L. Robinson · Cathy J. Sulzberger · Doreen A. Toben Daily newspapers: The Boston Globe · The Courier · The Daily Comet · The Dispatch · The Gadsden Times · The Gainesville Sun · International Herald Tribune · The Ledger · The New York Times · Petaluma Argus-Courier · The Press Democrat · Sarasota Herald-Tribune · Spartanburg Herald-Journal · Star-Banner · The Star-News · Telegram & Gazette · Times Daily · Times-News · The Tuscaloosa News Cable television stations: New England Sports Network1 · SNN News 62 Interactive assets: About.com · The New York Times Syndicate & News Service Other assets: Boston Red Sox1 · Donohue Malbaie Inc. · Fenway Park1 · Madison Paper Industries · Metro Boston1 1The New York Times hold some ownership interests in these companies through joint ventures. |
Annual revenue:  $831.8 million USD (First Quarter 2006) · Employees: 11,965 · Stock symbol: NYSE: NYT · Website: www.nytco.com |