The Boston Globe is a daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts, USA covering local news, sports, business, politics and community events.
The newspaper is published seven days a week.
The Boston Globe is the largest newspaper in the city of Boston and the New England region. It is owned by John Henry and his wife Linda Pizzuti Henry, the principal owners of the Boston Red Sox baseball team and the Liverpool (UK) Football Club. In the city of Boston, the Globe competes with the smaller Boston Herald, a tabloid.
The 2015 movie Spotlight told the story of the Globe's investigative journalism team which uncovered child sex abuse by priests of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Globe was first published on the morning of March 4, 1872 as The Boston Daily Globe and originally cost four cents. An afternoon edition called The Boston Evening Globe was launched in 1878 and ceased publication in 1979. The Taylor family ran the Globe from 1873 until 1993 and took the business public in 1973 using the name Affiliated Publications. The New York Times Company bought Affiliated Publications for $1.1 billion in 1993.
In October 2013, The New York Times Company sold the Globe to John Henry for $70 million. The value of the newspaper crashed during the 20 years of New York Times Company ownership and the company took a loss of around $1 billion on the sale.
Circulation estimate: 241,378
The Boston Globe is one of the highest circulation newspapers in the USA.
This newspaper is owned by John Henry and Linda Pizzuti Henry.
| Book editor: | Veronica Chao |
| Business editor: | Greg Huang |
| Entertainment editor: | Veronica Chao |
| Sports editor: | Matt Pepin |
| Travel editor: | Christine Morris |
For Boston Globe contact information, see the Massachusetts news media contacts at EasyMediaList.com.
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-- 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
-- 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
-- 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
-- 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...
-- 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.
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