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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.
The owner of a struggling Cambridge, Mass. bookstore took to HackerNews to try to save the business. Here are some of the more interesting ideas users have suggested to keep Lorem Ipsum Books alive.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Private equity firm Platinum Equity, which specializes in acquiring distressed companies, wants to add the Boston Globe to its newspaper hol…
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…
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…
Holding your breath for word that potential buyers have actually submitted bids for the Boston Globe and sister paper Worcester Telegram & G…
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) hopes to sell off another New England newspaper, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, as part of a packa…
The Boston Globe and its largest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, have a tentative agreement that may go over better than the version that…
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 –…
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…
Boston Globe representatives insisted for days that Monday’s meeting between the paper and the Boston Newspaper Guild would be purely inform…
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…
A union pension fund manager has emerged as the first public suitor for the Boston Globe. Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corp. co…
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…
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…
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…
The results are in earlier than expected: members of the Boston Newspaper Guild narrowly rejected a concession package worth $10 million dol…
Update: About 80 percent of the 690 editorial, advertising and circulation union members voted, narrowly rejecting the concessions. Details…
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…
P. Steven Ainsley runs the Boston Globe but the publisher says he wasn’t part of the decision to threaten a May 1 shutdown unless unions cam…
The Boston Globe and its largest union went back to the table Tuesday, finally reaching an agreement in the wee hours Wednesday that appears…
The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT), owner of the Boston Globe, has gotten six unions to agree to concessions and is still in talks with the…
The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) has backed off its threat to file notice today to close the Boston Globe despite failing to reach agreeme…
The New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) jacked up the pressure in Boston late Sunday night with a warning that it plans to file state notice Mond…
Citing some progress in negotiations, the Boston Globe has extended its deadline for the unions to make $20 million in concessions in order…
Sunday night Jacoby Ellsbury pulled off a stunning move: he stole home, setting off a rally that gave the Boston Red Sox a win at home. But…
