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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
One month after officially filing charges against its president, Dan Totten , The Boston Globe 's biggest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, has turned in a petition signed by nearly 150 members seeking to oust Totten. The union prez is set to appear before a union trial next week to face charges of misappropriating union funds, The Boston Herald reported. 24 percent of the union membership reportedly...
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Media Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Guest blogger Bill Grimes writes: For several years I have written short analysis and opinion pieces on the New York Times Company’s business, financial, and management problems. In a January 2007 lengthy report I suggested that the company sell its broadcast properties (it later did), that it sell the Boston Globe (it tried this year but found no buyers), that it sell its interest in the Boston...
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Boston Globe has launched a digital version of its newspaper called GlobeReader, which can be read online or offline. GlobeReader replaces the preview edition that launched over the summers and was available to subscribers for free. The GlobeReader is still available for free to Boston Globe's seven-day newspaper subscribers. For non-subscribers the GlobeReader is offered for $4.98 per week. A...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Here's another way to put up a digital pay wall without having to deal with all the negative connotations associated with that name: The Boston Globe , which has offered a free online edition since this summer, is now making their digital copy available only for download to your computer. And, unless you already subscribe to The Globe , you'll have to pay for it. Ostensibly, this makes the paper more...well,...
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WBJournal.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Boston Globe has launched a digital version of the newspaper that can be downloaded to readers' computers for $4.98 per week.
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MetsBlog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe provides a recap of topics discussed during the GM Meetings, ranging from whether or not to add an eighth playoff team to a possible worldwide amateur draft. … abraham is great… i’m happy to see him up at the Globe, and carrying on the traditional notes column made famous by that newspaper… …however, [...]
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Somehow I suspect this AIR app/service is not going to be a huge success. The Kindle version of the Boston Globe, FYI, is $9.99/month (but is missing some features, including crossword puzzles) The Boston Globe is launching a new electronic version of the newspaper for which it will charge $4.98 a week, the company said yesterday. The product, known as GlobeReader, resembles the look of the print...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
The Boston Globe is launching a new electronic version of the newspaper for which it will charge $4.98 a week, the company said yesterday.
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distributorcap NY (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
When the ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulation) release 3rd quarter newspaper circulation figures recently - the numbers showed a continuing downslide in readership. Venerable bastion of "journalism" like the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Boston Globe all continue to bleed readers. Even the world's greatest dog poop wrapper - the New York Post suffered a steep drop. Only Rupert Murdoch's...
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Modern Art Notes (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
This morning's New York Times features a front-page Deborah Sontag and Robin Pogrebin article on a story that MAN has been aggressively covering for six weeks: The New Museum's self-made ethical problems regarding its exhibition of a trustee's collection. ( Click here for a roundup of links to MAN's coverage. Click here for an op-ed I wrote for the current issue of The Art Newspaper.) Some thoughts:...
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Like Maria Said Paz (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
" Contractor woes may plague Iraq withdrawal " ( UPI ): Expiring contracts with truck suppliers could hamper the draw-down of U.S. troops from Iraq, the Government Accountability Office in Washington says. A GAO report contends that with many Iraq contractor's deals set to run out next year just as the U.S. military is at the height of its withdrawal of 50,000 troops, finding new contractors...
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Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
If you were a newspaper subscriber last year, there’s a 10 percent chance you aren’t this year. That’s because paid circulation of daily newspapers nationally fell more than 10 percent from a year ago. Some papers suffered truly horrendous daily circulation losses: the San Francisco Chronicle (down 25.8 percent), The Boston Globe (down 18.5 percent) and The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The latest newspaper circulation numbers, measuring copies sold from April through September of this year, show a 10.6 percent decline in daily newspaper sales, the first double-digit drop in circulation ever. Newspaper readership is now at its lowest level since before World War II. The biggest losers during this six-month period, as reported by NewsBusters's Tom Blumer, were the San Francisco Chronicle...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Filed under: Employees , New York Times'A' (NYT) , Media World It costs a fortune to cut fat. For regular people, it can mean hundreds or even thousands of dollars on gym memberships, special meals and organic restaurants. Yet, this pales in comparison to how much the Boston Globe is spending to lose some dead weight. It could cost the NY Times Co. (NYSE: NYT ) property more than $1.2 million to bid...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Most national papers in America are faring better than metropolitan ones THE slope down which America’s metropolitan newspapers are tumbling became steeper this week. On October 26th the Audit Bureau of Circulations revealed that the Los Angeles Times had lost 11% of its paying readers in the past year. Circulation at the Boston Globe tumbled by 18%. At the San Francisco Chronicle it fell by...
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