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10.14.2009 6:07 pm

N.Y. Times Co. says it won’t sell Boston Globe after all

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Boston Globe is reporting that it won’t be sold by the New York Times Co.  A story on boston.com says the Times cited a better financial picture at the Globe.

From that story:

In a memo sent to employees at 5 p.m. (4…

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07.20.2009 11:03 pm

Boston Globe union reverses course, accepts cuts in pay, benefits

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Here’s the top of the New York Times account of the union’s decision Monday night:

Employees at The Boston Globe voted Monday to accept a package of deep concessions on wages, benefits and job security six weeks after they rejected a similar package,…

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07.20.2009 9:36 pm

Boston’s only black-owned paper accepts loan from city

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A one-sentence item in the Nation Digest in Sunday’s Post-Dispatch reported:

The publisher of Boston’s only black-owned newspaper says he’ll accept a $200,000 loan from the city to avert the shutdown of the financially struggling weekly.

Here’s a bit more information:

“Only a…

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06.15.2009 5:39 pm

The Boston Globe: Worth a quarter billion or worthless?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

New York Times business columnist David Carr asked six newspaper analysts what they thought the Boston Globe would fetch in a sale.

Carr notes in his Media Equation column that the the Globe lost an estimated $50 million last year and was said…

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06.08.2009 10:09 pm

Boston Globe union rejects contract, faces 23% pay cut

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Boston Globe’s largest union tonight rejected a contract with deep pay and benefit cuts that the New York Times Co. — the Globe’s parent — said were needed to keep the Globe from shutting down.

The Times immediately said it…

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05.24.2009 11:43 am

Figuring out which plastic bottles can leach controversial chemical

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A story about hard plastic drinking bottles containing bisphenol A leaching notable amounts of the controversial chemical into people’s bodies that appeared on page A1 of Friday’s Post-Dispatch raised questions from readers as to exactly which bottles had BPA.

One reader wanted…

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05.07.2009 11:44 am

Boston Globe, New York Times report details of union concessions

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The newspapers closest to the situation — the Boston Globe and the New York Times — are reporting details of the deal that has kept the Globe publishing, at least for now.

Early Wednesday morning, leaders of the Boston Newspaper Guild…

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05.06.2009 12:04 pm

Is liberal bias the reason newspapers are struggling?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Jeff Jacoby, a columnist for the Boston Globe, says the answer is no.

Political leanings have nothing to do with it, he writes in a column today. The growth of the internet has left the traditional newspaper business model in shambles…

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04.21.2009 11:53 am

Sen. Kerry announces hearings on plight of newspaper industry

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Sen. John F. Kerry says he’ll hold hearings next week on financial problems facing the newspaper industry, according to the Boston Globe.

The Globe reported Monday that the Massachusetts Democrat announced the Senate Commerce Committee hearings in a letter he wrote…

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04.03.2009 9:05 pm

Boston Globe unions are told to make concessions or face shutdown

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Union leaders at the Boston Globe say the New York Times Co. has threatened to shut down the Globe unless its unions make $20 million in concessions.

The Boston Globe is reporting tonight:

Executives from the Times Co. and Globe made the demands…

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