The Boston Globe
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | The New York Times Company |
| Publisher | P. Steven Ainsley |
| Editor | Martin Baron |
| Founded | 1872 |
| Headquarters | 135 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Circulation | 350,605 Daily 525,959 Sunday[1] |
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| Website: boston.com | |
The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts. Owned by The New York Times Company, the broadsheet Globe's local 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 percent. Sunday circulation fell 6.5 percent to 525,959. [3]
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[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 March 4, 1872 and cost four cents. It was originally a morning daily when 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 [2].
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.[5] This raised questions of a double standard at the Globe, as Mike Barnicle, who is white (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.[6]
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 apologised for printing graphic photographs that purportedly showed US 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.[7][8][9]
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, so the details were fabricated. [10][11]
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. Gammons went on to become a member of the Baseball Writers Hall of Fame.
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.[12]
On January 26 2008 an opinion editorial declared that the Palestinian territory of Gaza required 680,000 tons of flour per day to feed its less than 1.5 million populace, at just under a half ton per person a day.[13]
[edit] Editorial Page
At 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. The publisher P. Steven Ainsley reserves the right to veto an editorial and usually determines political endorsements for high office. [14]
Globe editorials may be called predictably liberal as editorial-page editor Renee Loth has herself admitted. [15] The editorial page is known for its extraordinary influence. [16] Which is why the Boston Globe political endorsements are much coveted.
[edit] Magazine
Appearing 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.[17]
[edit] Contributors
- Robin Abrahams writes Miss Conduct (see below)
- Doug Most, Editor
- Charlie Pierce is a staff writer
- Neil Swidey is a staff writer
- Tina Sutton writes The Clothes We Wear
[edit] Regular Features
Editor's Notes: Notes written by Doug Most that are relative to one of the features in that week's magazine. Letters: Reader's correspondence Q/A: A mini interview with a local person The Big Deal: A profiling of a transaction that recently took place Pierced: A column by Charlie Pierce Tails From the City: Heartwarming stories from Boston and elsewhere The Clothes We Wear: Style column Miss Conduct: An advice column focusing mainly on good manners and properness. The Globe Puzzle: A crossword puzzle Coupling: Essay about social chemistry. Usually pertaining to someone's love-life.
[edit] Pulitzer Prizes
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[edit] Notable contributors
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[edit] References
- ^ Saba, Jennifer (2008-04-28). New FAS-FAX: Steep Decline at 'NYT' While 'WSJ' Gains. Editor & Publisher. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.
- ^ Gavin, Robert. "Herald's circulation declines", The Boston Globe, 2005-11-08. Retrieved on 2006-09-06.
- ^ Globe Staff and Wire Reports. "Big Papers’ Circulation Falls", The Boston Globe, 2008-04-29. Retrieved on 2008-06-05.
- ^ Palmer, Thomas C., Jr. "Globe Sale Points to Newspapers' Strength". The Boston Globe, page A1, June 12, 1993.
- ^ O'Brien, Sinéad (September 1998). "Secrets And Lies". American Journalism Review.
- ^ O'Brien, Sinéad (September 1998). "For Barnicle, One Controversy Too Many". American Journalism Review.
- ^ "Boston Globe publishes bogus GI rape pictures taken from pornographic website".
- ^ "Councilor takes up Iraq issue - Turner releases purported images of rape by soldiers".
- ^ "Globe publishes apology for fake 'GI rape' photos".
- ^ Kurtz, Howard (2005-04-16). "Boston Globe Admits Freelancer's Story Included Fabrications". Washington Post: C01.
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- ^ Blogs from The Boston Globe and Boston.com - Boston.com
- ^ Ending the stranglehold on Gaza The Boston Globe Jan 26 2008
- ^ "The Boston Globe Opinion Pages Explained", The Boston Globe. Retrieved on 2008-06-05.
- ^ Buccini, Cynthia. "Every Day is Judgment Day", Bostonia, The Alumni Quarterly of Boston University, 2006-07-20. Retrieved on 2006-09-06. "The Globe has a long and proud tradition of being a progressive institution."
- ^ Buccini, Cynthia. "Every Day is Judgment Day", Bostonia, The Alumni Quarterly of Boston University, 2006-07-20. Retrieved on 2006-09-06. "The editorial page has an extraordinary influence, and I like to think that's because we are informed."
- ^ New York Times Company (2006-10-23). "Boston Globe Media Publishes Premiere Issue of Design New England: The Magazine of Splendid Homes and Gardens". Press release.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Boston Globe history
- Boston Globe blogs
- "Squaring the Boston Globe", a blog usually critical of the Boston Globe
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