Vulnerable children. Sexual predators. Secret payoffs. They were the toxic ingredients of a generational scandal 15 years ago that was blown open by the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team and one that […]
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Capital concerns at the Globe
For those of us in the news business, the Boston Globe’s shrinking Capital section is an alarming sight. The nation is in the midst of one of the most interesting […]
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McKenna’s marketing deal with the Globe
As the Suffolk University soap opera heads toward some resolution today, one storyline hasn’t received much attention — the decision by President Margaret McKenna to enter into a $670,000 advertising […]
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Globe highlights its own hypocrisy
A little over a year ago, the Boston Globe ran a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of editorials documenting the challenges facing food service workers– wages too low to live on, minimal […]
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The Globe’s deliverance
If a tree falls in the forest but it doesn’t get home-delivered, does it still make news? Though the vast majority of people get their news through (not from, just to […]
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Globe pricing strategy may be working
The Boston Globe’s bold gamble to raise its digital subscription price by 74 percent may be working, reports Ken Doctor. When the story broke about the Globe’s price change in July, […]
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Globe in the middle of casino fight
The Boston Globe found itself in the middle of a legal fight this week. The newspaper broke the news on Wednesday that Wynn Resorts had filed a libel lawsuit against “an […]
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Globe reaches for the cloud
Stop us if you’ve heard this before: The Boston Globe is seeking to buy out an unidentified number of newsroom employees to cut costs and put the paper on a better […]
