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The New York Times Co.'s chief executive has thanked employees of The Boston Globe for helping improve its financial condition enough for it to drop plans to sell the newspaper.
The executive board of The Boston Globe's largest union says union president Daniel Totten appears to have violated its financial rules.
Two groups with an interest in buying The Boston Globe have reportedly toured the newspaper's headquarters in the past week, while a bid from a third group is looking less likely.
Two of the three groups bidding to buy The Boston Globe have been invited to a series of meetings at the newspaper in early September.
Top executives of The New York Times Co. say a sale of The Boston Globe is not a certainty.
The Boston Globe is reporting that two Boston groups have submitted preliminary bids to buy the newspaper.
A new contract agreement between The Boston Globe and its largest labor union could make the newspaper more attractive to potential buyers, but is not close to a cure-all for the Globe as it struggles with readers and advertisers shifting to the Internet, analysts said Tuesday.
Mike Krzyzewski appears set to go for more gold. USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo said Tuesday that "all leads point to Coach K coming back," following a report by the Boston Globe that Krzyzewski has agreed to return as U.S. Olympic basketball coach.
The Boston Globe's owners have reportedly postponed a deadline for potential buyers of the newspaper to submit their initial bids.
A new contract agreement between The Boston Globe and its largest labor union could finally end months of contentious negotiations while making the newspaper more attractive to potential buyers.
Anyone looking to buy The Boston Globe would get one of the nation's most prestigious newspapers, with a popular Web site, 20 Pulitzer Prizes and a 137-year history of breaking stories that have exposed corruption and public betrayal.
A meeting between The Boston Globe's largest union and the National Labor Relations Board has been postponed as the union continues its talks with management over $10 million in contract concessions.
For devoted Boston Globe readers, it's bad enough that the 137-year-old newspaper has a murky future. Even worse: The fate of the paper will be decided by a bunch of New Yorkers.
The New York Times Co. appears interested in getting rid of The Boston Globe, hiring investment bank Goldman Sachs to manage a potential sale of a newspaper that has plummeted in value since its purchase in 1993, the Globe said Wednesday.
Unions that represent mailers and printers at The Boston Globe have agreed to concessions they hope will keep the 137-year-old newspaper publishing.
Members of The Boston Globe's largest union met Thursday to debate a proposal for deep wage and benefit cuts that the newspaper's parent company, The New York Times Co., said were necessary to keep the 137-year-old daily from closing.
Members of The Boston Globe's largest union were expected to have a spirited, emotional meeting Thursday night over a proposal that calls for deep wage and benefit cuts.
While a tentative agreement between the owner of The Boston Globe and its largest employees union may keep the newspaper alive for now, the long-term future of the 137-year-old Globe is still uncertain.
The owners of the Boston Red Sox are denying reports that they might try to buy the struggling Boston Globe.
The Massachusetts congressional delegation has sent a letter to the chairman of The New York Times Co. urging that a solution be found to prevent The Boston Globe from closing.
Employees of The Boston Globe have enlisted public support to save their newspaper, calling it a city institution and demanding that The New York Times Co. share in the cuts it's calling for in Boston.
The New York Times Co.'s CEO says the fate of the money-losing Boston Globe could hinge on "critical" talks with the unions representing most of the newspaper's employees.
The Boston Globe plans to eliminate bonuses for more than 200 managers and executives, including its publisher, as part of a cost-cutting effort at the struggling newspaper.
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The extreme Republican Party - The Boston GlobeLet's not mince words here: We now have an entire political party that is not only dedicated to the mediocre. It is dedicated to the nearly deranged.
High Roller AXP CEO Chenault dining at Boston's Scampo Where would you take your family and friends for a dining experience? Keep in mind that money is no object when you're among the highest paid CEOs in the TARP pool of '08. Also keep in mind you're Buffett's favorite boy.
Boston Globe Scrubs Henry Louis Gates Cambridge Police Arrest Report From Online ArticleThat Cambridge, MA police report presents such a damning picture of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates when he was arrested that an embarrassed Boston Globe felt it had to scrub it from its website after initially posting the report.
HWB -- Home While BlackElder is absolutely right in his remark, "....Besides, don't we want a proactive police department that, within the law, doesn't just react to crime but also tries to prevent it?"
Deadline for Boston Globe bids reported postponed - Kansas City StarHow Newspapers in America may be saved. Send all Lobbyists out of Washington, DC! The companies that they work for should be relocated to Kansas City, St. Louis, and other cities to make them more vibrant.
Report: Times Co. will take bids to sell Globe | turnto10.comBOSTON - The Boston Globe is reporting that The New York Times Co. has hired Goldman Sachs to manage the possible sale of the financially struggling newspaper
Let's help Severin clean up his actIt's time for the Boston Globe to die a quick painless death. This hit piece is an embarrassment for The Boston Globe which is an allegedly high quality publication. Here's an excerpt:
Student slams Harvard on graduation banA Harvard University senior says the school singled her out because of her race when it barred her from graduating because of her alleged connection to a campus shooting.
Murdoch: Web Sites to Charge for Content within Year, 'Current days of the Internet will soon be over'Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch expects News Corporation-owned newspaper Web sites to start charging users for access within a year in a move he says could radically shake-up the culture of freely available content.
Boston Globe, Union Reach Deal to Keep OperatingThe Boston Globe's largest union reached a tentative deal with the New York Times Co. shortly after 3 a.m.
Globe Proposes 23 Percent Pay Cut as "Last Best Offer" -- The Boston GlobeBoston Globe management and the Boston Newspaper Guild resumed negotiations Tuesday evening so far apart that the company has proposed, with what it called its "last, best offer," to slash wages of Guild members by about 23 percent to gain the $10 million in additional concession …
Boston Globe, union might resume talks: sourceThe Boston Globe and its biggest union are "taking a break" until later Monday or Tuesday on talks about concessions that parent company The New York Times Co says are crucial to save the newspaper.
N.Y. Times to File Notice It Will Close Boston GlobeNew England's most storied newspaper is closing...or is it?
Boston Globe talks pass deadlineTalks between the Boston Globe and its unions continued past a midnight deadline amid threats that the newspaper could be closed within weeks.
The news is all bad for some of America's biggest papersEven with the relentless tsunamis of bad news that have battered the US newspaper industry in recent years, the ultimatum from the Boston Globe's parent company that its unions must accept $20m in salary and benefit cuts or face closure on May 1 was a media shockwave bigger tha …
Bonuses To New York Times Execs Under FireAt a time when New York Times managers are forcing all employees to take a five percent pay cut, and demanding even larger sacrifices from the NYT-owned Boston Globe, top executives of the beleaguered newspaper received substantial bonus and fringe benefit payments over and above …
Once coveted, Globe failed to measure up to Times's demands - The Boston GlobeThe Boston Globe is in trouble. Once owned locally by a Boston family, the newspaper was bought outright by The New York Times Company several years ago. What with the decline of newspaper readership, the Globe looks forward to losing $85 million this year.
'Boston Globe' Launching Branding Campaign After Shut-Down ThreatNewspapers fighting for their survival.
New York Times Co. Is Said to Consider Closing The Boston GlobeThe New York Times Company has threatened to close The Boston Globe unless labor unions agree to concessions like pay cuts and the cessation of pension contributions, according to a person briefed on the talks.
Fistfight with neighbor led to murder of sistersMore local coverage from Boston Globe staff, updated frequently.
Madoff creditors get first report Bernard L. Madoff did not make any trades in customer accounts for at least 13 years, the trustee in the Madoff bankruptcy case said at the first public meeting with creditors in New York yesterday.
Clark 'Rockefeller' to claim insanity in kidnap case - The Boston GlobeThe man who has called himself Clark Rockefeller is contending that he was legally insane when he allegedly kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter last summer on a Back Bay street.
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