I’m leaving tomorrow for Almaty, Kazakhstan, where I’ll be taking part in the annual Eurasian Media Forum. A lot of interesting people are going to be on hand, including former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, gadfly British parliamentarian George Galloway, former congressman Harold Ford, Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, former ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and […]
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One line I’ve been recycling this week is that the showdown between New York Times Co. management and the Boston Globe unions would not come down to midnight on the 30th day — that union officials, based on their own comments, seemed to understand that both the Times Co. and the overall situation was serious, […]
Boston Globe editor Marty Baron tells his staff that as many as 50 newsroom positions will be eliminated soon — via buyout if possible, or layoffs if necessary. Baron concludes his memo with this: All of us appreciate what a supremely dedicated and talented staff we have here, and we know the ache of seeing […]
Robert Jordan, a former president of the Boston Globe’s newsroom employees union, writes in response to this item from last Friday: Dear Dan, In one of your recent postings, you asked readers to check out a “toxic” quote from Dan Totten, president of the Boston Newspaper Guild, which appeared in the New York Post, which, […]
I should be grading papers, so just two quick observations. — Is Kerry Healey’s gubernatorial campaign now the dirtiest in state history? Oh, I suppose those orange-jumpsuit-clad demonstrators have nothing to do with her campaign. (Globe coverage here; Herald coverage here.) I’m especially impressed with a new wrinkle: terrorizing the 12-year-old son of Deval Patrick’s […]
What would a locally owned Boston Globe look like? How would it differ from the New York Times Co.-owned version? It may be too soon to answer those questions, but it’s certainly not too soon to ask them. The Globe continues to be a drain on Times Co. revenues. Company executives respond by cutting the […]
These are not the best of times for either of Boston’s daily newspapers. Three stories in today’s Boston Herald tell the tale: – Following Monday’s announcement that the New York Times Co. will reduce its workforce – a move that will cost the Boston Globe 35 newsroom positions – the Herald’s Jay Fitzgerald reports that […]