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The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Globe has been owned by The New York Times Company since 1993. Its chief print rival is the Boston Herald.[2] In 2008 the Globe's average weekday circulation fell to 350,605, down from 382,503, or 8.3%. Sunday circulation fell 6.5% to 525,959.[3] The Globe has the eighteenth largest average Monday-Saturday U.S. newspaper circulation and has won eighteen Pulitzer Prizes.
[edit] History The Globe was founded in 1872 by six Boston businessmen, led by Eben Jordan, who jointly invested $150,000. The first issue was published on March 4, 1872 and cost four cents. Originally a morning daily, 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.[4] 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.[5] On August 6, 2009, several media outlets in Boston reported that in the future, Boston.com might start charging for its services.[6] 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.[7] This raised questions of a double standard at the Globe, as Mike Barnicle, who is European-American (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.[8] 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 investigative journalism. In 2004, the Globe apologized for printing graphic photographs that purportedly showed U.S. soldiers raping Iraqi women during the Iraq war. A week earlier the pictures had been shown by World Net Daily to be fantasies from an internet pornography site.[9][10][11] 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, proving that the details were fabricated.[12][13] 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. In 2004, Gammons was selected as the 56th recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing, given by the BBWAA, and was honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 31, 2005. 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.[14] On April 2, 2009, The New York Times Company, which owns The Globe, said it will close The Globe if its unions do not agree to $20,000,000 of cost savings.[15] Some of the cost savings include reducing union employees' pay by 5%, ending pension contributions, ending certain employees' tenures.[15] However, early on the morning of May 5, the Times Company announced it had reached a tentative deal with the Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents most of the The Globe's editorial staff, that allowed it to get the concessions it demanded. The paper's other three major unions had agreed to concessions on May 3, after the Times Company threatened to give the government 60 days notice that it intended to close the paper.[16] On October 14, 2009, the New York Times Company announced it terminating the sale of The Globe saying the paper "has significantly improved its financial footing.." [edit] Editorial pageAt the Boston Globe, as is customary in the news industry, the editorial pages are separate from the news operation. Editorials represent the official view of the Boston Globe as a community institution. Peter Canellos, former Washington bureau chief, is the editor of the editorial page. The publisher P. Steven Ainsley reserves the right to veto an editorial and usually determines political endorsements for high office.[17] Describing the political position of the Globe in 2001, former editorial page editor Renee Loth told the Boston University alumni magazine:
[edit] MagazineAppearing 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.[19] [edit] Contributors
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[edit] PricesThe Globe prices are: $1.00 Daily, $3.50 Sunday. [edit] See also
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