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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.
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.
The Boston Globe says it will raise newsstand prices for its daily and Sunday print editions.
When it bought the Boston Globe for a record $1.1 billion in 1993, the New York Times Co. added one of the nation's most acclaimed and profitable newspapers to its empire.
Union leaders say The New York Times Co. has told The Boston Globe's unions they must agree quickly to $20 million in concessions.
David Gergen's Voice: Don't Miss The Boston Book FestivalThis Saturday, Oct. 24, is the Boston Book Festival, with an all-star lineup that will have you scrambling to get to and from all the presentations and panels featuring internationally known writers, scholars, critics, and commentators.
Oh, @!$%#! ( Global Warming and C02 Emissions )The IPCC says that by 2020 rich industrial countries must cut emissions 25 to 40 percent (compared with 1990) if the world is to have a fair chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.
16-year-old Jessica Watson Completes "Five-Day Sail" in Preparation for "Solo Circumnavigation of the Globe""TEENAGE adventurer Jessica Watson says her five-day sail from Queensland to Sydney proves she's ready to tackle a solo circumnavigation of the globe." She completed the five day journey on October 5, 2009 according to this article.
An Immoral Economic SystemAn immoral economic system compels a society's moral decline. Because of Congressional devotion to our traditional economic system, American government seems to have enshrined all the disadvantages and none of the advantages of democracy.
Ted Kennedy and the Death (Hopefully) of an Era: The controversial senator belonged to a different age, one ill-suited to today's increasingly decentralized worldWhich brings me to the second point: The legislation for which he will be remembered is precisely the sort of top-down, centralized legislation that needs to be jettisoned in the 21st century. Like Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) and the recently deposed Sen.
1. Turn off your lights. Wasteful use of energy not only runs up your bill, it compounds into devastating effects on the environment.
House Vote Seen as Big Step Toward Cooling the Greenhouse"Its praises have been sung as an energy security bill and a jobs bill. But the American Clean Energy and Security Act passed last Friday by the U.S. House of Representatives is in fact milestone greenhouse legislation."
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.
Google Goats to Clear Brush (Hint to Southeast US...they eat Kudzu too!)Google, a company revered for its ability to think outside the box, has come up with a novel way to clear its land of brush. Goats. They've hired goats to clean their brush. More Articles
Spam 'Produces 17m Tons of CO2'A study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes. More Articles
The Globe and ISeattle Councilmembers Sally Clark, Tim Burgess, and I, members of the Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee, recently were voting on landmark status for several downtown buildings when it occurred to us to propose landmark status for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's G …
Lights Across Globe Dim For Earth Hour '09 That's what people have been doing around the world, from an Antarctic research base to the Great Pyramids of Egypt and beyond, in an effort to draw attention to the threat of global climate change.
Predicting the Weather with Cosmic Rays from UndergroundCosmic-rays detected half a mile underground in a disused U.S. iron-mine can be used to detect major weather events occurring 20 miles up in the Earth's upper atmosphere, a new study has revealed. More Articles
25 Most Dangerous Programming MistakesThe US National Security Agency has helped put together a list of the world's most dangerous coding mistakes. More Articles
A Google Search Produces .2-7g of CO2 (IT Causes 2% of Global Emissions)A recent study by American research firm Gartner suggested that IT now causes two percent of global emissions. More Articles
Muslims all around the globe will be gathering in communal prayer celebration Monday to mark the end of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Holy city of Mecca [Saudi Arabia] that is one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith.
It's an amazing world and so far I have had an amazing life, that's has been because of my luck.
Take a moment to see what the world hopes from our electionIn case you have any doubt that our Presidential election matters to the world, take a look at this short video. Take a moment to really feel our connections with the globe on which we live and the people who inhabit it outside our national boundaries.
New Clues To Air Circulation In The AtmospherePrevious theories have claimed that there are just two large circular systems of air in the atmosphere...[and] that air rises at the equator and then travels towards either the north or south polar regions, where it falls.
Obama The Preferred Candidate Around The World: PollWASHINGTON — People around the globe widely expect the next American president to improve the country's policies toward the rest of the world, especially if Barack Obama is elected, yet they retain a persistently poor image of the U.S., according to a poll released Thursday.
Map of Alcohol ConsumptionThis map shows alcohol consumption per capita in states, countries, and regions. Quite amusing...how accurate it is, I couldn't tell you!
Many years ago we wrote all over the globe letters. I personally have been in pens to Japan, France and Zaire. So there around 1984 I got Formula 1 calendar for next coming year and I immediately sent back to Japan calendar with pictures of my country.
Talking rubbish. City aims to be world's first plastic bag-free zone.Melbourne looks to become free of plastic bags. Everyone supports it, but few think it will happen.
The Governance of the destinies of peoples is in the hands of political leaders, across the globe. They too are subjected to severe stress and strain, like the industry captains. Political leaders who guide the destinies of the citizens of their countries, too needed to be guided.
Prepare for Global CoolingThe mud at the bottom of B.C. fjords reveals that solar output drives climate change - and that we should prepare now for dangerous global cooling
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